"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 called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”

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    And yet there are people willing to get brain implants or other ‘utility’ bio-augmentations and dont see an unsupported/EOL product becoming part of their body indefinitely.

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      There was a story about that sometime ago. Tech startup that made prototypes, someone used them with great success, but the company failed and now they need to take it out.