An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless
www.theverge.com
He couldn’t walk using the machine for two months.

"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,”

  • @kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    3•2 months ago

    But people don’t want that.

    Until something goes wrong and they discover (usually too late) that they actually did want that.

      • @kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        On the other hand, there is a very valid reason why things like batteries are so expensive to replace and why you can’t find replacement batteries for a lot of products a certain amount of time after production ends.

        On the other other hand, there are tons of commonly available industry standard batteries that a manufacturer could choose to use, if they wanted to.