Honor Unveils AirPods-Like 'Earbuds 3 Pro' With Built-in Temperature Monitoring

[JKarnsy]

You know what these look like...

 

[sherwinzadeh]

This shouldn't be legal

They MUST have a design patent on this... no??? Flat out design theft.

 

[Makosuke]

Competing wireless earbuds? Cool, competition is good.

Constant temperature monitoring? With appropriate machine learning and monitoring behind it, I could imagine that being a genuinely useful feature.

Making a product called the "Earbuds 3 Pro" that looks so similar to a pair of AirPods Pro that they're virtually indistinguishable? No.

I would be flat-out embarrassed if I worked for this company, no matter how good the technology is. And the fact that their industrial design (and naming) is "As close as we think we can copy Apple without getting sued" means that I don't trust the hardware, either. Copycat design points to a company planning to make sales through appearance or straight-up confusion, not performance.

 

[Makosuke]

But sound does not travel as well with rectal buds.

Maybe not a "rectal bud" that plays music, but the internet tells me there's a market in there somewhere.

Someone might have said "I wish my thermometer played music while doing its thing", though.

Now I desperately want a thermometer that plays elevator music while the temperature stabilizes.

 

[paross]

Exactly! As a healthcare professional, I can tell you the most accurate is a rectal thermometer.

You heard it here first, ButtPods and ButtPods Pro.

This. Changes. Everythi....OW.