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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
09/24/2009, Wheelchairs help the disabled get up and about, but many times they are thwarted by poor planning and layout of an area that makes it disabled unfriendly. The CARRIER Wheelchair can be said to be the Hummer of them all, [...]