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No, a Stolen iPod Didn't Brick Ben Eberle's Prosthetic Hand

Posted by timothy on from the too-bad-to-be-true dept.

New submitter willoremus writes A wounded Army vet had his $75k prosthetic hand bricked when someone stole his iPod Touch? Yeah, not so much. I'm a tech reporter for Slate.com, and a Slashdot post earlier this week prompted me to look into this story and ultimately debunk some of the key info. Sorry for self-posting, but I thought folks here might be interested in the truth since the false story was one of the top posts earlier this week.

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  1. Re:Rule of thumb by kdataman · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the OP of the original post, I would like to point out that I listed 3 possibilities and the first was that the story was wrong, maybe even intentionally wrong.

  2. Re:Mythbusters by dfsmith · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought, "I'll run with it...".

  3. Re:Slashdot got a sensational story wrong? by the+gnat · · Score: 4, Informative

    their No Nukes anti-vax GMO-free science illiterate readership.

    Uh, which readership would that be? I've been reading Slate almost daily for a while now, and they've been very consistently against the anti-vaxxers and, to a lesser extent, haven't had much sympathy for the anti-GMO crowd either. They even employ Phil Plait, who rarely misses an opportunity to denounce scientific illiteracy. Perhaps you confused them with Salon?