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[-] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

https://thewarhorse.org/amputee-veterans-face-chronic-lack-of-va-care-prosthetics/

[-] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago

Also: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete - "Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported"

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Thanks, that's actually the article I was looking for.

We're literally living in a cyberpunk dystopia.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

a boring cyberpunk dystopia

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

And another: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery

Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue ... "I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

We really need standardization in batteries. I usually think that about ebikes, but this is another good example.

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