Developer conferences and hackathons are remarkable events. Attendees are veritable wizards with code. From a clean slate, teams will compose applications with remarkable depths of functionality within a period of hours.
With such technical acumen, it is not uncommon to observe other characteristics, like curiosity. Such was the case earlier today. As the developers stopped working on their apps, and judging began on the various ideas the teams put together, a medical device I rely on daily started responding to Bluetooth connectivity queries at the AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon.
The prosthetic device you see in the embedded photo is the X3, made by Ottobock, based in Germany. The X3 is one of the most advanced prosthetic knees in the world. I was part of a small group of veterans that tested the prototype design of the knee (called the X2) for the U.S. Army a few years ago, and was one of the first people in the world to receive the X3. For the full article click here
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