Alive-in-2025 19 hours ago

Amazing, we live in an age where a lot of health issues will begin to be able to be addressed by adding little electronic fixes. Your eyes, hearing. I'd love some kind of pressure detector to call for help when I have a heart attack or a stroke. I guess first the rich will be able to get these, then non oligarchs later.

  • yostrovs 18 hours ago

    Turns out the company that makes your implant decides to no longer support it, and you go blind again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

    • Alive-in-2025 17 hours ago

      ok, so not some paradise. Next step, it's Europe so they could just make a law preventing this, perhaps disallow locked apis, or having to publish the details if they do end of life things.

      The us should do this too. But we aren't. We have problems like John Deere locking down fixing farming equipment - replace some electric part of your gear and you have to haver an API key to "unlock it" to work. This problem already exists on car parts. It can reduce motivation for someone to steal such car parts, but it seems to mostly be a revenue line for car makers, prevents third party replacements too.