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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.
When Apple released a software update at the start of November that enabled its new hearing aid features in AirPods Pro 2 earbuds, Rithwik Jayasimha immediately went out with his dad to buy a pair for his grandma. To dodge Apple’s geolocation restrictions, the trio built a rudimentary, signal-blocking Faraday cage on top of a microwave with aluminum foil, which ultimately allowed them to enable the hearing aid settings. The group, which has a mixture of hardware and software skills and first detailed their hack as part of a technology collective called Lagrange Point, say a couple of dozen people have contacted them asking for help with their AirPods.
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