All the stories tagged with: wheelchair
Swiss Researchers Showcase A Brain-controlled Wheelchair
09/10/2010, The smart researchers over at the EPFL in Switzerland have come up with a cool brain-controlled wheelchair. This wheelchair will rely on EEG readings to detect specific brain patterns and when combined with artificial intelligence will allow for shared control [...]
Leeding E.D.G.E concept wheelchair
08/30/2010, Wheelchairs are great tools to help the disabled get around quickly and efficiently, but do you feel that there could be further improvements introduced into a wheelchair for future generations? The Leeding E.D.G.E concept might just do the trick, as [...]
Robo wheelchair trained to heel
08/12/2010, One of the rite of passages in the life of a dog owner would be to have your four-legged friend obey the “Heel” command flawlessly, following you like what they term a “velcro dog”. Well, the same principle has been [...]
Air Canada fixes Tanner Bawn’s wheelchair after Twitter pressure
08/08/2010, The power of social networking – in this case, Twitter (who recently celebrated its 20 billionth tweet), is at work once again, where Air Canada fixed a terminally ill boy’s wheelchair after it was damaged during a flight. Pressure from [...]
Control A Wheelchair With Your Nose
07/28/2010, A group of researchers over in Israel have come up with a rather interesting “sniff controller”, which, as its name implies, allows the user to control devices (such as a wheelchair) via their nose. While it’s still a long way [...]
Chariot Skates finally arrive
04/16/2010, Looks like the Chariot Skates has been delayed time and again, where it will finally arrive this August despite being announced since 2009. You can read all about it in our take on the Chariot Skates last December, where we [...]
Futuristic Wheelchair
04/02/2010, While none of us want to be confined in a wheelchair, if we ever are, this futuristic concept wheelchair would probably the one that we’d pick. It offers a teardrop extrusion located at the back to help negate the negative [...]
Indoor Personal Mobility Robot Wheelchair
01/14/2010, This Indoor Personal Mobility Robot seems like something that would be really useful to the elderly or disabled. Basically this wheelchair can guess where the person seated wants to go, and go in that direction. The direction desired is deduced [...]
Lightweight wheelchair is special
12/15/2009, If you think that life without a limb is hard, how about having only one limb to survive? When that happens, even getting around on a wheelchair is more or less impossible, but thanks to designer Mark Veljkovich, he has [...]
Action Trackchair enhances mobilization
12/14/2009, No longer do you need to be confined to flat and gradual slopes if you’re in a wheelchair – Action Manufacturing ensures you can even live a rough and tumble lifestlye outdoors with their Action Trackchair. The Action Trackchair is [...]
iPhone controls wheelchair
11/20/2009, Dynamics Controls managed to integrate an iPhone with its power wheelchair electronics, allowing iPhone or iPod touch owners in such a wheelchair to navigate using their device instead for a different experience. This solution also will show off the current [...]
iTilta superchair
10/12/2009, Gu JiaWei’s iTilta superchair is one concept design that will surely revolutionize the way we see wheelchairs – after all, it is a flexible structure complete with pressure transmission tappet that makes it a snap to get in and out. [...]
Roll Charge Light Protect wheelchair
10/02/2009, Just when you thought that all wheelchairs were created equal, along comes the Roll Charge Light Protect wheelchair that might sound rather ostentatious, although it is all about safety. The rims will feature LEDs which obtain their power from the [...]
