Turns out that the breathing light survives, sort of, not really, in an Apple product today:

The AirPods Pro case does this when charging – right at the start, or when you tap it later. But it disappears after a while, the pace is now 28 breaths a second (over twice as fast as the original iteration), and the light is orange.

Is it still the same thing, reflecting on how smaller organisms breathe faster? Or is it mostly an unrelated idea, with the light fading in and out indicating activity rather than lack of it? My money is on the latter – the light turns white when pairing, too, and it cycles even faster then – but it was nice to imagine the return of the old feature for a second or two… or 2.1, to be precise.