{"id":1201459,"date":"2023-11-09T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1201459"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:47:13","slug":"sparse-innards-of-25-counterfeit-airpods-pro-revealed-by-ct-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1201459","title":{"rendered":"Sparse innards of $25 counterfeit AirPods Pro revealed by CT scans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Lumafield’s blog shared this image showing CT scans of three earbuds. The left is a real AirPods Pro (2nd Gen). The wire-riddled two on the right are fakes. (credit: Lumafield<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Whether they’re products pretending to be made by a brand or devices claiming to be something they’re not, (like a microSD card posing as an SSD<\/a>), fraudulent electronics pose a threat to unsuspecting shoppers’ wallets and, at times, their safety. With their popularity and high prices, scammers often target Apple products. But what’s actually inside those faux Apple devices?<\/p>\n

To find out, Lumafield busted out its $75,000 CT scanner to illustrate what people get when they end up with counterfeit MacBook chargers or knockoff AirPods Pro.<\/p>\n

Lumafield makes industrial CT scanners and software. Lately, it has been using its Neptune<\/a> scanner to examine electronics, like Apple’s $130 Thunderbolt 4 cable<\/a>. This week, Lumafield provided CT scans (which you can play with via Lumafield’s online Voyager software) of the AirPods Pro 2nd Generation<\/a> (here<\/a>), two counterfeits (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), as well as a look at Apple’s 85 W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter (here<\/a>) and a fake (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Lumafield’s blog shared this image showing CT scans of three earbuds. The left is a real AirPods Pro (2nd Gen). The wire-riddled two on the right are fakes. (credit: Lumafield) Whether they’re products pretending to be made by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1201459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}