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art

Wiimote Wheelchair Helps Disabled People Paint (Roughly Speaking)

Digital Wheel Art, a wheelchair painting program to help disabled people make art, was on display at the Maker Faire event in NYC tonight. Creator YoungHyun Chung was inspired to create the device after seeing children with cerebral palsy whose limited movement stifled their artistic expression. Here's how it works, plus a video of the system in action. More »

11:30 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,240 views, 19 comments

Latest by UniComp: I just hope handicapped people don't expect me to watch them while they do this. I was bored with the video 10 seconds into it. more »

wheelchairs

Robotic Wheelchair Uses Lasers to Dock Like a Spaceship

A robotic wheelchair that loads itself into its owner's car using the same principles as a spaceship does when docking, has been developed by a team from Pennsylvania. An on-board computer uses LIDAR, or light detecting and ranging, to position the chair when it is loaded into a vehicle—exactly the same technique used by the space truck Jules Verne when it dropped in on the ISS last month. More »

12:30 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By AddyDugdale
1,391 views, 10 comments

Latest by eagleapex: Hooray for Lehigh! more »

stunts

Wheelchair Backflip Makes Truck Backflip Seem Less 'Extreme'


While recently a daredevil was forced to cancel a backflip in a truck because he broke his back doing some practice runs, this daredevil already has a broken back. Aaron Fotheringham was born partially paralyzed from the waist down. I guess he figured risking being fully paralyzed from the waist down wasn't all that big a deal, because he started doing tricks in his wheelchair, leading up to this insane full-on backflip. Sure makes guys that use broken backs as an excuse for getting out of stunts seem less ballsy, no? [Spulch]

10:42 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Adam Frucci
8,204 views, 34 comments

Latest by NeoPoliticus: I just can't help but remember reading about the paraplegic who took up skydiving - and ended up a quadriplegic. more »

gadgets

Mind Controlled Wheelchair

This prototype mind-controlled wheelchair developed from the University of Electro-Communications in Japan lets you feel like half Professor X and half Stephen Hawking—except with the theoretical physics skills of the former and the telekinetic skills of the latter. A little different from the Brain-Computer Typing machine we saw a while back, this thing works by mapping brain waves when you think about moving left, right, forward or back, and then assigns that to a wheelchair command of actually moving left, right, forward or back. More »

4:00 PM on Fri Aug 11 2006
By Jason Chen
380 views, 12 comments

Latest by Penchum: This is great, but how do you keep your mind from thinking "run them over?" As crappy as people treat those in wheel chairs, retaliation is inevitable. Bruised ankles will be everywhere! more »

gadgets

TREKINETIC Wheelchairs

Wow. Now that is some nice design. These TREKINETIC wheelchairs are built for off-road and city riding and include shock absorbers and high-performance brakes. More »

6:05 PM on Fri Jun 23 2006
By johnb
790 views, 6 comments

gadgets

TankChair

Can I get a "Yeah?" Look at this thing—it's a wheelchair tank designed for all-terrain use. We think the story says it all: More »

2:11 PM on Wed Apr 19 2006
By johnb
1,454 views, 11 comments

robots

iBOT Mobility System

Independence Technology has released the iBOT 4000 Mobility System. This is the techiest wheelchair around. The sheer density of computers, software, sensors and gyroscopes could probably send a man to the moon and make me some toast at the same time. The electronics ensure stability at all times and this allow for the wheel chair to even rise up on two-wheels and roll, carefully, down stairs. The iBOT can also travel over many different types of terrain like grass and sand. Eat your heart out Segway some other sort of robotic thing with wheels seeing as how Dean Kamen invented this one. More »

10:14 AM on Wed Aug 17 2005
By Travis Hudson
591 views