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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] poplargrove 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] poplargrove 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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,”

[–] captainlezbian 1 points 1 week ago

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

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