• ricecooker@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The first I heard of these devices was to help old people make the religious pilgrimage to a temple in the mountains of Japan. My skeptic self wondered about military applications and how it was going to get twisted right away

    • tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Well if anyone would weaponize them, it would be Japan with their long history of mech scifi :)