Paralyzed Jockey Michael Straight Wants To Keep Walking, But Manufacturer Won't Repair Exoskeleton (paulickreport.com)

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It sounds like they are extorting this person to buy a new machine or lose significant quality of life. We need right to repair laws.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Open source prosthetics ftw!

[-] ctag 1 points 2 months ago

Via Cory Doctorow's pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024

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