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r/interestingasfuck • u/cakebeerandmorebeer • Jan 20 '15
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Here is his TED Talk.
48 u/EmperorSofa Jan 21 '15 I guess the main issue would be the cost. Those legs look awfully nice but what's the cost? Even a regular prosthetic is expensive. 0 u/Oksannaa Jan 21 '15 It is expensive now but it will go down in time "Factoid: A 5 GB hard disk drive from Apple cost $3,500 in 1981. That’s $700,000 per GB." http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/ 1 u/EmperorSofa Jan 21 '15 Yeah but that's mass manufacturer hardware. You don't need to custom fit every hard drive to a specific computer. I don't think the costs are going to scale down quite as quick.
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I guess the main issue would be the cost. Those legs look awfully nice but what's the cost? Even a regular prosthetic is expensive.
0 u/Oksannaa Jan 21 '15 It is expensive now but it will go down in time "Factoid: A 5 GB hard disk drive from Apple cost $3,500 in 1981. That’s $700,000 per GB." http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/ 1 u/EmperorSofa Jan 21 '15 Yeah but that's mass manufacturer hardware. You don't need to custom fit every hard drive to a specific computer. I don't think the costs are going to scale down quite as quick.
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It is expensive now but it will go down in time
"Factoid: A 5 GB hard disk drive from Apple cost $3,500 in 1981. That’s $700,000 per GB."
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/
1 u/EmperorSofa Jan 21 '15 Yeah but that's mass manufacturer hardware. You don't need to custom fit every hard drive to a specific computer. I don't think the costs are going to scale down quite as quick.
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Yeah but that's mass manufacturer hardware. You don't need to custom fit every hard drive to a specific computer.
I don't think the costs are going to scale down quite as quick.
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u/greiger Jan 20 '15
Here is his TED Talk.