I forgot to mention this when it happened, but we recently hit 500 miles on the used cargo e-bike we got last summer!
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@lindsey wow, I don’t even receive hugs while on my ebike and it’s still one of the very few recent technologies that I am almost unequivocally positive about.
@lea what are the others?
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@lea what are the others?
@lindsey the ones that come immediately to mind are medical tech: mRNA vaccines, injectable HIV prophylaxis, and continuous blood glucose monitors. (I suspect there are other med-tech improvements to the everyday experience of chronic conditions, like the CGMs, that I am not as aware of. CGM is somewhat topical to me as my niece was recently diagnosed with T1D.)
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@lindsey the ones that come immediately to mind are medical tech: mRNA vaccines, injectable HIV prophylaxis, and continuous blood glucose monitors. (I suspect there are other med-tech improvements to the everyday experience of chronic conditions, like the CGMs, that I am not as aware of. CGM is somewhat topical to me as my niece was recently diagnosed with T1D.)
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Possibly also menstrual cups (which I don’t personally use but which I do believe have been an improvement for many people). -
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Possibly also menstrual cups (which I don’t personally use but which I do believe have been an improvement for many people).@lindsey Oh and outside med-tech: this is very niche and definitely less life-altering, but the availability of a pretty full range of colors in off-the-shelf borosilicate glass rod has come leaps and bounds. You just genuinely couldn’t buy most colors in boro until surprisingly recently and a small handful of people made it happen.
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@lindsey Oh and outside med-tech: this is very niche and definitely less life-altering, but the availability of a pretty full range of colors in off-the-shelf borosilicate glass rod has come leaps and bounds. You just genuinely couldn’t buy most colors in boro until surprisingly recently and a small handful of people made it happen.
@lea @lindsey the most impressed I’ve been by tech in years was at the dentist a few years ago when I needed a new tooth implant. they scanned my mouth with a wand and I could watch the mesh appear in real time. the dentist dragged some points around to fit my face better. then while I was still at the dentist they c&c’d a tooth, baked it, and put it in my face. whole thing only took a couple hours. mind boggled. I almost quit my job and went to work on medical devices right there
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Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
Absolutely the best!
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@lea @lindsey the most impressed I’ve been by tech in years was at the dentist a few years ago when I needed a new tooth implant. they scanned my mouth with a wand and I could watch the mesh appear in real time. the dentist dragged some points around to fit my face better. then while I was still at the dentist they c&c’d a tooth, baked it, and put it in my face. whole thing only took a couple hours. mind boggled. I almost quit my job and went to work on medical devices right there
@akiva @lindsey oh, hm. I put the dental capture/CAD/fab pipeline in with my own research area, which is to say: I am broadly a gleeful nerd about it (and I agree dentists have the best tools) but also I’m close enough to it that I do see some of the negative parts. (Any fab stuff is inherently entangled with resource allocation and how that interacts with socioeconomic and sustainability factors; reconstructive scanning tech replicates beauty norms…)
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Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
@lindsey sounds like my life before I moved into the city. I had a couple of ebikes, one being a cargo for the kids. Without it, I'd have been mostly trapped at home
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Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
@lindsey Bicycles are an over-hyped non-solution for many people. But e-bikes, I think, *might* actually be part of the now and the future! We have a massive trail near our home that we would like to explore, and e-bikes offer the perfect way to do it!
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Honestly, e-bikes have been the technology that has improved my life the most in the last five years. I live in a hilly place, and with my first e-bike a few years ago, I suddenly became able to commute by bike. Then, with the cargo bike last year, I suddenly became able to take my eight-year-old places by bike.
She sometimes actually hugs me while we're out on the bike. Best damn thing in the world, and it couldn't happen in a car.
@lindsey I suppose an e-bike would be helpful for me, since I live on a hill, and it would be faster than walking, but it might also be risky, since the road is quite steep and not very wide, and has tight bends and parked vehicles with bad visibility.
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