According to Straight, the issue was caused by a piece of wiring that had come loose from the battery that powered a wristwatch used to control the exoskeleton. This would cost peanuts for Lifework to fix up, but it refused to service anything more than five years old.
As this infuriating case shows, advanced medical devices can change the lives of people living with severe disabilities - but the flipside is that they also make their owners dependent on the whims of the devices' manufacturers.
I find it very hard to believe after paying nearly $100,000 for the machine and training that a $20 battery for the watch is the reason I can't walk anymore?
One man, for example, was forced to spend enormous amounts of time and effort to teach himself how to repair a device that managed his debilitating cluster headaches, after the company that made it went belly up.
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