<story><title>Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT</title><url>https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>latchkey</author><text>My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they&amp;#x27;d be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.&lt;p&gt;The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones.&lt;p&gt;We ended up listing them on FB Marketplace. Clearly marked them as fake. Person came and picked them up and I said again that they were fake. Got the same amount we paid for them. I don&amp;#x27;t understand this world sometimes.&lt;p&gt;The fake sellers must make enough off of people who don&amp;#x27;t realize that they are fake that they can just write off the few that do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT</title><url>https://www.lumafield.com/article/real-vs-fake-apple-products-through-industrial-ct-airpods-pro-macbook-magsafe-charger</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>This is really cool and kinda makes me want to put various things I have under such scanner.&lt;p&gt;However several statements like&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;provide optimal power efficiently&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;along with other assumptions made this a bit awkward to read. What does it mean to provide &amp;#x27;optimal&amp;#x27; power except making it sound like a commercial? Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just me, after all I was expecting a very technical article (as have been on HN previously, also from CT scans IIRC).</text></comment>