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This is great it's finally been adopted. Having read this though, I really wonder about some very small things like AirPods and other Ear Pods which are so small it would be difficult to engineer them to pop open without impacting the longevity ot the item. Maybe I'm wrong, it is just an interesting thought. Otherwise I am all for the right to repair your own stuff and cradle to cradle these things.
Don’t necessarily think of the solution as opening them.
The solution could hypothetically be that the stalks (that contain the battery) are modular and replaceable. They could snap to the bud part with some kind of ‘mini-magsafe’ connector.
What I'm hoping for is more investment into supercapacitors now. Charges very quickly, and most don't have any kind of degradation. Biggest issue is that they don't hold nearly as much power as current Lithium systems, but there have been research papers mentioning ways to get around this. There's also a few other minor things, but they would solve the need to replace batteries over time.
Of course, one of the main reasons there may have been little research for supercaps is cause of planned obscelescence..