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Three children receive 'best Christmas present in the world' - bionic arms
(www.bristolpost.co.uk)
They alpha testing the cyberpunk parts we've been waiting for
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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NGL having one of those sounds cool AF.
So they have the right to repair their own body right? For when the company inevitably goes under, or drops support for this model in favor of a new product line.
If not, it's still possible to enforce right to repair; most of these arms are able to have 3D-printed components, saw a YouTube video on that.
Don't let this timeline become Cyberpunk 2077. Please, just don't.
does the "open" have any relationship with open source design, or is it just a bullshit marketing tag? I have browsed their site and seen nothing
Definitely just marketing. Otherwise they would be vocal about it being open source.
Don't be ~~a gonk~~ an idiot, they're prosthetics. I appreciate that if I lose my arms I can replace them, but who WANTS to get cybernetics if they can help it? Advertising to the public would be unethical even if it is open source, you want to advertise this to doctors, and even then only within the existing niche. Cybernetics as a commonplace thing were never meant to be more than a 1980s action sci-fi Hollywood fever dream.
I get it. To a degree, we're living in a dystopia, a real one. It's entirely sane to say "the rich did this" and want them to suffer. It's sane to be bothered they're currently getting away with it. Doesn't mean people are stupid, it just means social Darwinism is no different than running civilization as if civilization never existed. The rich right now are generally competently evil, and unfortunately that is what capitalism enforces. "Market forces" and "supply and demand" are just a pretty way to describe "survival of the status quo" because the status quo has always been "ooh, babies are weak and delicious!" because that's how things work in the wild.
This is not the wild. This is not how things should be, regardless if that's "how it's always been". But this is a world where some stories come true. Miami 2017 was written and first sung long before 9/11, MegaMan Battle Network was right on the 00 Green, and Inception was onto something about dreams, if a story has already been written it isn't somehow magically made falsehood.
Uhm. I think you misunderstood me. With more vocal i meant their current advertising material. There are people who need prosthetics you can advertise towards. Or Doctors who work with prosthetics. Although i can understand your criticism, I think it is misplaced here.
Fair enough. I guess I mixed you up with whoever was being a defeatist "only the rich will afford it" about something that has not yet become true. Believing something will come true because "that's how everything works" just hastens that type of world, because if enough people act like that's how it works then it becomes the norm. I'm only a pessimist because I like to be pleasantly surprised, but that level of cynicism is... grating, to say the least.
If it shouldn't be true, refuse to support the mindset needed to survive in such a world. Otherwise your mindset is already exactly who wealthy assholes want you to be, a wage slave who sells their morals to whoever scares them more. Better to die believing in not hurting people for personal gain, a hero, than to live believing that someone successfully stabbing you in the back is a fate worse than death.
In short, strength is a weakness if you live only to stay alive, too many people online say they think there is no hope whatsoever, but I confused you with one of them and sorry about that.
Science: because prayer doesn't work.
how many times stronger are they from a regular humans?
Orders of magnitude. But they nerfed it with a software update so it's fine.
Getting worried aye.
I am happy that we are starting to see bionics used to help people and become more accessible. Limbs, eyes, all sorts. If we had someone like Bezos they could choose to invest in this technology, mass produce it and change the lives of millions.
Three cyborgs.
at what point is someone a cyborg 🤔? Is my grandpa a cyborg because he has metal implants in his knees?
If we wanted to make a distinction (why?), one could say these implants have a firmware counterpart built in themselves. New upgrades would hopefully bring improvements.
Believe it or not, glasses are cybernetics. Yes, that also means a peg leg or glass eye makes the user a cyborg. Cybernetics as a term is much newer than the practice of prosthetics, and cybernetics is simply defined (iirc) as technology for - and the design of the technology for - prosthetic use. Technically "cybernetic" and "prosthetic" are synonyms. The line drawn is implied to be intent: Medical prosthesis to replace what was lost, or cybernetic enhancement?
What about hearing aids and glasses? They are all mechanical assistance.
oh that's so true I didn't even consider those
I'm waiting to receive two bionic arms. I have always fantasized about how useful having those two arms would be and how it would feel to be able to use them. I'd even be okay with being called an insect.
I thought for sure this was going to be an Onion-like article.
This and c/nottheonion are the only news communities I'm subbed to anymore, so I had to do a double take
I've been thinking about getting metal legs.