These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    This is such a sad situation. On the one hand, the tech is legitimately outdated, and the company was struggling to make enough money to keep advancing its development. On the other hand, it improves the quality of life for a lot of people. Not being able to get any support with failing hardware is the worst possible outcome.

    It would be amazing if, at the very least, the designs for these devices could be released to the world for free, so that people could find ways to hack on them and offer improvements. I know that there are other companies out there now, which are offering better, more modern solutions…but, being able to modify this tech easily would go a long way towards improving quality of life for patients with implants.

  • lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    Why does nobody ever stop to ask what the implications will be of allowing actually-existing capitalism to fuck around with advanced biotech?

    • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      People do, they’re just drowned out by their colleagues who are rabidly fixated on getting more funding and recognition. Happens all the time in research science in general and it’s very disheartening to see extremely valid criticism be swept under the rug so we can make the place look more comfortable for stakeholders/investors. I hate it.

      • ganymede@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        sadly the lack of funding here is exactly the problem

        companies doing this kind of awesome work should be getting more support. regulation expenses are enormous, ofc for medical devices there’s alot of necessary red tape. but imo there should be gov programmes to help them through it. our taxes can pay for politician’s champagne dinners, but apparently help can’t pay for this?