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When Apple came out with their new earbuds a few years ago, called AirPods, many people were skeptical, late night talk shows used these as the butt of their jokes for weeks. But for diehard Apple fans, they were the latest technological advancement from the company their love and couldn’t wait to get their hands on them! One man in particular loves his so much that when one went missing under, shall we say, suspicious circumstances, he did not stop believing in Apple.
According to Douglas Charles (brobible.com), a man named Ben Hsu apparently “he fell asleep wearing his AirPods recently and when he woke up he couldn’t find one of them…because he accidentally swallowed it” (brobible.com 1). He. Swallowed. It! There are many questions that came to mind when I read this but the main one that I keep coming back to is: how did he swallow it without the act of doing so wake him up? I have been known to fall asleep with my ear buds in but mine are wired and rolling onto my side wakes me up to take them out.
But this story gets even better. Charles go on to further explain that because of the iPhone tracking feature for the AirPods, Ben was able to determine that missing AirPod was inside his stomach! (brobible.com). And the AirPod was returned to him, in a matter of speaking, by means that can be left to the imagination.
Charles also presents the good and bad news of this outcome: “The good (?) news for Ben Hsu is that he managed to avoid having to have the AirPod surgically removed…the bad (?) news is that he fished it out of , ummm, the toilet, and after washing it, he discovered that it still worked” (brobible.com). To this I say…EWWW!!! I’m glad he passed it and he did not have to endure surgery but really? He washed it?! If that wasn’t a sign to go to his local Apple store and pick up a new pair, then I don’t know what else could convince him.
When Apple first released these AirPods, I have to say I was just as skeptical as most people about them being lost, not swallowed. After reading this article though, it does not surprise me. It also reminds me why I love my wired ones so much. Even when I don’t have enough cord sometimes, I have a renewed sense of satisfaction to have that problem and not a similar one to Ben Hsu. I see this as another win for wired headphones but also a win for Ben because his situation could have been a lot worse.
