Their pitch expressly claims the device isn’t AT… But it is to help more people access the outdoors, which I think counts to an extent.

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    That’s pretty cool. I’m glad they offer a daily rental to just try them out, I’m curious what is like.

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      Cool but also their products are already incredibly expensive so I can’t imagine what these would cost and also I feel like this kind of detracts from the purpose of hiking.

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        1. I don’t think they hide the cost.

        1.1 their gear is top notch. Expensive, but it lasts in my opinion (and achieves the goal, their winter gear is incredibly performant)

        2 subjective, the purpose of hiking is different for many. Simply existing in the outdoors may be enough for someone.

        I have a buddy that was in a car wreck and his knee is fucked up. Reconstructive surgery and what not. He’s not fully disabled in so much as he can walk and stand, but anything beyond short stairways and he’s toast. He can never come hiking because of his knee and a tool like this might help, a small amount. (Which means a net positive of easy trails he can handle)

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          I agree that this is great for people with injuries, I also don’t think they hide the cost and while I agree they do make good products they tend to be on the high end of said good products and this one will undoubtedly be costly.

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          I have a buddy that was in a car wreck and his knee is fucked up. Reconstructive surgery and what not. He’s not fully disabled in so much as he can walk and stand, but anything beyond short stairways and he’s toast. He can never come hiking because of his knee and a tool like this might help, a small amount. (Which means a net positive of easy trails he can handle)

          I’m fortunately not quite that bad of but I’ve been recently feeling the long-term impacts of the motorcycle wreck that I was in 5 years ago, mainly on my ankle. Getting it looked at soon, luckily but, I’m not able to be on my feet too long without weeks of pain after anymore. This tech is directly in line with the sort of ankle brace that I think would be helpful - reducing the effective weight on the ankle joint in a dynamic manner would be very enabling.

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      The real question is how much does it cost, but then again compared to knee and hip replacements…