Adam Savage reviews the AirPods Pro 2 as a hearing aid.

​​A nice review by Adam Savage, former MythBuster. Calling it a review is doing it injustice as he really goes into his personal life and how hearing aids in general have even changed his marriage dynamics. Didn’t know he wore hearing aids, but his enthusiasm for Apple products and his real world experience really shows how useful the AirPods Pro 2 are.

Some highlights:

I think Apple turning the AirPod Pros into a substitute hearing aid is one of the best sub-features I've seen out of this consumer product in a long time. Having been a very public hearing aid wearer for 15 years, I have been sent a lot of people’s versions of earbud-hearing-aids and I’ll, I’m not naming any names but everything I have tried sucked. Everything I have tried had a very bad user experience in the calibration, in the testing, in the integration. These (the AirPods Pro 2) were really really just as advertised by Apple, straightforward, simple to understand, fast to execute, and awesome to use…

If you have people in your life who need hearing aids, this might be a great gateway drug to hearing aids, given that it is a lot less expensive and it carries a lot less of the, stigma of hearing aids. One of the rhetorical flourishes I gave people a few years ago that a lot of folks have told me worked on people in their lives, is to explain that no one who ever got hearing aids thought to themselves, “well that was a bad idea.”