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Apple Plans Hearing Aid Social Networking

Posted by timothy on from the hearing-aids-are-amazingly-expensive dept.

theodp writes "Apple may have killed off Ping, its attempt at a music social network, but the USPTO on Thursday disclosed that Apple has patent-pending plans for a hearing aid-based social network. So, if Apple's granted patents covering its Social Network for Sharing a Hearing Aid Setting and method of Remotely Updating a Hearing Aid Profile, will it use them to 'go thermonuclear' on Google when the search giant gets around to improving its current offerings for the hard of hearing?"

3 of 70 comments (clear)

  1. Brilliant move! by Grayhand · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew they had a for after their earbuds made everyone prematurely deaf.

  2. Re:WHAT?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I couldn't hear you.

    You're holding it wrong.

  3. Re:Remote updating of devices on your person? by Hentes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freemium hearing aids: you get it for free but it will whisper ads it downloads from the net in your ears constantly.