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Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete (futurism.com)

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A former jockey who was left paralyzed from the waist down after a horse riding accident was able to walk again thanks to a cutting-edge piece of robotic tech: a $100,000 ReWalk Personal exoskeleton.

When one of its small parts malfunctioned, however, the entire device stopped working. Desperate to gain his mobility back, he reached out to the manufacturer, Lifeward, for repairs. But it turned him away, claiming his exoskeleton was too old, *404 media *reports.

"After 371,091 steps my exoskeleton is being retired after 10 years of unbelievable physical therapy," Michael Straight posted on Facebook earlier this month. "The reasons why it has stopped is a pathetic excuse for a bad company to try and make more money."

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is something I wish cyberpunk media touched more on.

One thing I always thought about when playing cyberpunk 2077 is why wouldn't companies have a failsafe for their equipment being used against them. In the game, you can use cyber decks from Arisaka and Militech and be able to hack and assault their infrastructure and employees with impunity.

I am not really sure companies would allow that...

[–] III@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Overlooking the concept of a failsafe? How did they get past the concept of the subscription model?

[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I always imagined that it was due to a higher level of computer literacy amongst the consumer population. An hour after a corpo releases a new piece of tech under a subscription model, the software has been cracked and pirated all over the net.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Fuck me I didn't think about that... owning your own implants? Goddamn!

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Presumably those failsafes can be circumvented and your character being a cool hacker applies those exploits to their hardware.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“Jailbroken”

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kinda like how software crackers have a pirated version of a game ready to go within hours, regardless of the encryption.

I guess that does make sense.

[–] h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uh yes the cracked version of Ida pro getting used to crack the next version of Ida pro.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

This ends with Microsoft pluton

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why wouldn’t companies have a failsafe for their equipment being used against them

Because they got tired of paying for the whiny engineers that would have to implement the failsafe and so they fired them all.

[–] III@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

so they fired them all

Even fictional evil companies need to meet goals set by the board.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That's the problem with cyberpunk as a genre. Its to cool. The first Deus Ex did it right. If it was in the hands of a better developer Watch Dogs could have too.