Nanoplug tried to fool users with an "update" image lifted from a competitor.
by Sam Machkovech - Mar 16, 2015http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150303235036-New_BEE_main2_Wht-640x248.jpg
If this hearing aid image looks familiar, that's because the team behind the Nanoplug project lifted it from a store page for the Bee II 800 CIC Digital Hearing Aid—and tried to pass it off as their own.
File another entry into the "crowdfunded projects that go nowhere" folder: The team behind Nanoplug, a hearing aid that promised to be "an affordable, invisible, instant-fitting, user-programmable, and better quality hearing aid than ever seen before" has finally gone on the record to offer unsatisfied Indiegogo contributors a refund. The kickback is coming "as soon as we can" according to Nanoplug, and the apology comes after the product has become both tardy and vastly different from its pitch—if it even exists at all.
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