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What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you live in the US that sounds like something the FDA should be notified about. It's probably not legal to sell a hearing aid that can so easily be hijacked by another party, or if it is, it really shouldn't be. Either way, FDA regulates hearing aids so they are the ones to complain to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem is inherent to Bluetooth, The only way to make it not be like this would be to make things dramatically more difficult to connect to things over Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I'm no expert on the technical side of the protocol, but my BT devices only ever connect to sources they've been paired with.

Why would this be more difficult for hearing aids than for headphones?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not at all, those ones are permanently in pairing mode with no interaction required and instead it should require manual pairing