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How Apple AirPods Work

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@live4mint From YouTube ↗ 21 Sep 2025 33
18 minutes felt more like 5, luring animations and consistent flow of useful information - perfect recipe
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@alexb4178 From YouTube ↗ 21 Sep 2025 125
"Here's what's inside an AirPod" proceeds to explain how lithium ions batteries work and teach the fundamentals of microfabrication. Great video!
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On a similar note to this video, I'd love to see you look at the engineering of a modern hearing aid, especially a high-end over-the-ear hearing aid. They have to do a lot of real-time processing of sound, and nowadays even have features like bluetooth built in (all within a small electrical budget of a tiny battery, rechargeable or dry cell)!
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Honestly I love these videos. I love the aerospace, don’t get me wrong, but there are many modern marvels of engineering that we use daily that many of us never even think of. These dives into how small devices had to be designed are incredibly interesting
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This genuinely gave me a whole new appreciation to my AirPods Pros. Its unbelievable how they were able to engineer these components into such a tiny product.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH for using Wh and providing nominal voltages! Much better info than what the clueless tech youtubers do providing just Ah/mAh without understanding that many devices use different voltages.
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@JAAulde From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 243
4:56 Ericsson is AWESOME for their work in this, and for giving it to the world, but this video really needed a hat tip to Hedy Lamarr. She invented the base ideas that all modern wireless systems rely on.
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@lumafield From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 359
Amazing breakdown of these marvels of engineering! We love the gorgeous animations you've made with our CT scans 😍
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Would be cool to have the same video made for another high end bud... just to see how different companies use different strategies to solve the same issue.
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3:26 Not me having just dropped my brand new AirPods
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@ja-no6fx From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 8
if marketing was like these videos I'd have a lot more confidence in my purchases
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a real engineering and mustard upload in the same day, i mustve died in my sleep and somehow made it to heaven
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I had no idea some of these clips were animations until the parts started floating off the table
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man that accelerometer bit blew my mind thats so smart holy shit
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@Supermaid16 From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 322
the vent explanation part were incorrect. Its not for resonant purpose, its there for 2 other purpose:
1. Prevent pressure buildup on your ear canal, when u insert them into your ear, due to eartips seal, u are compressing the air in your canal. Vent is there to release that pressure buildup. Otherwise the pressure either will push on either your eardrum or the speaker membrane. This also apply to controlling the pressure rise, when the speaker is doing long stroke movement during high amplitude low frequency sound (bass), they leak some of that bass pressure through the same port so it wont be overwhelming.
2. Speaker always move forward and backward in a sine wave. The vent is there to tune the properties of air flowing at the back of speaker membrane when its is moving backward. Mostly related to bass & low frequency response, and a bit of mid frequency.

The mesh explaining high frequency damping were spot on
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@Graywolf116 From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 2500
5:45 "the human head is surprisingly good at blocking 2.4 GHz signals" .... are you telling me I didn't need this tinfoil hat all along?!
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@AnacondaHL From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 1000
14:28 what an unlikely place to finally learn about why animals do that cute head tilt!
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@trapfethen From YouTube ↗ 21 Aug 2025 3100
More of these how it's made / how it works videos would be awesome!
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This was just an animation flex. Nice.
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Some of my videos get view spikes at bed time. I think it's listening to my boring ass ramble on about science for 16-30 minutes would put anyone to sleep 🤣