Comment by munchler
2 months ago
There's an exception for "appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable". This ring is described as water-resistant, so I wonder if it would be allowed?
I don't know if it counts as "primarily" operating in those conditions.
From my reading, the conditions seem to apply to the environment it primarily operates in, not the product itself. So the product primarily operates in the environment of the hand, and the hand is definitely "regularly subject to splashing water".
I hate to say it, but none of this matters. This product is going to fail anyway.
It’s a niche within a niche within a niche. It’s designed to do solve a problem that only one person has.
You have to:
- want to make voice memos (how many people do that?)
- find your watch insufficient for that purpose
- find your phone insufficient for that purpose
- be willing to wear a ring on a specific finger (this isn’t practical on most of your fingers because it’s hard to press the button)
- commit to custom sized jewelry
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Not sure about you but I regularly wash my hands
Not sure about you, but my hands are primarily dry and only occasionally get wet.
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What about an iPhone. Can you change the battery without specialized tools?
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"2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to *make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals*:
(a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;"
This still does NOT allow non-replaceable batteries. Also note "independent".