Wheelchair
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Layer Design’s new product takes 3D printing’s unique ability to quickly provide tailored products, and uses it to build a custom wheelchair with an attractive design. The product is set to launch in London later this month.
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A Brazilian team is developing a wheelchair that uses brain-computer interface techniques to help people with serious motor impairment to control the equipment through facial expressions. A start-up has been created to bring the product to market within two years.
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A New Zealand designer is revamping the traditional wheelchair design with a new model that frees the arms of the user. Instead of using the hands to create movement, the user moves their upper body to direct the two wheels.
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Indiana-based wheelchair mobility specialist BraunAbility and Ford will be showing a wheelchair-accessible Explorer at this week's Chicago Auto Show. Called the Explorer MXV, the conversion is meant to put the comfort of a wheelchair-accessible van into the rugged, capable hands of an SUV.
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Wheelchair users have had to live with the fact that stairs, sharp curbs and doorsteps either required assistance to maneuver, or made access to some locations impossible. The tracked TopChair-S, however, is designed to change that.
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The Smart-Drive MX2 is an electric drive designed to attach to an ordinary wheelchair and give a boost up hills and over difficult surfaces whenever it's needed.
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The Freewheel wheelchair is aimed at keeping tabs on user's physical activity, with a sensor array that measures things like speed, distance, acceleration incline and decline and collates it into a smartphone app.
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Unlike other stair-climbing wheelchairs we've seen over the years, the B-Free Chair relies on a set of robotic "pedrails" that look almost like skinny tank tracks. These articulated pedrails allow the electric to grip the staircase firmly as it navigates up or down.
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We've seen tracked wheelchairs before, that are able to take on steep or uneven terrain. For regular surfaces, however, wheels make more sense. That's why a group of students are creating the Scalevo electric wheelchair, which features wheels for cruising and tracks for climbing stairs.