AirPods

AirPods can temporarily shut down a pacemaker if worn near the chest. Apple's most popular product comes with a cardiologist asterisk.

AirPods are getting custom EQ in iOS 27, years after every competitor already had it. Three sliders, no saved profiles.

Apple didn’t announce new AirPods at WWDC but they may have revealed their future.

Apple's camera AirPods are apparently done. Siri is the one holding up the line.

AirPods can now track your health and run AI, but you're still finding their settings inside the Bluetooth menu.

Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 could get a budget variant this summer, which is a sentence nobody expected to type.

Eight months in, AirPods Pro 3 still nail heart rate, posture, and live translation without feeling like a spec sheet wearing earbuds.

Apple built camera AirPods that work, then remembered Siri has to work too.

Sony put cameras in earbuds to compete with smart glasses. Ray-Ban already proved the software isn't ready for the hardware.

Bluetooth quietly throws away audio detail every time you press play. A wire fixes that for under $50.

Apple spent five years and hundreds of prototypes on AirPods Max. Your headband still costs $550.

Strava now reads your heart rate through AirPods Pro 3, making a $249 earbud the wrist-free alternative to a fitness watch.

JPMorgan inherits Goldman's $350-per-customer credit card portfolio and immediately offers $249 AirPods to make you forget who built it.

India's earbuds buyers have stopped buying cheap and started buying better. Apple, OnePlus, and Samsung are the ones collecting that money.

16% of people who pass a clinical hearing test still rate their hearing as fair or poor. AirPods catch what the booth misses.

Cameras in earbuds first, glasses second. Apple is building the user base before it builds the platform.

The new Siri runs on Google's Gemini and ships with iOS 27 this fall. AirPods benefit most because voice is their only interface.

Apple's three rumored Ultra products this year are a foldable iPhone, a touchscreen MacBook, and AirPods with infrared cameras. Only the earbuds change their category.