Wheelchair Diffusion Blog

We reported on the Topchair back in September of 2005 when it was just out of development. It is now ready to climb into commercialization.

The Topchair is a stair climbing and obstacle climbing powered wheelchair designed by French engineer Hervé le Masne. The wheelchair has four wheels for rolling over normal terrain and two [...]

This wheelchair is a joy to look at. The WizzyBug is an early powered mobility device or "first wheels" for kids. It is tricked out just for the little ones and is very obviously aimed at letting kids be kids.

The WizzyBug was designed by Bath Institute of Medical Engineering in the United Kingdom. BIME [...]

The Gryphon Shield™ enables safe driving with a rearview monitor system, computing technology and lights combined into a stylish, modular package mountable on any personal electric vehicle (motorized wheelchair or mobility scooter).

The Gryphon Shield is the brainchild of Jesse Leaman of the Leaman Potential Foundation, a nonprofit organization, based in Berkeley, California. The foundation is [...]

The ability to elevate a wheelchair seat can be a very useful feature for enhancing independence. It can give a wheelchair user the ability to get at those just out of reach items and facilitate eye level contact with others.

The Mobilife PMV X22 raises vertical elevation to new heights with an industry record breaking [...]

Garments printed with flexible sensors could help people with severely limited mobility control assistive devices such as powered wheelchairs.

High level quadriplegics have traditionally utilized such control mechanisms as head controls, sip and puff controls, and an assortment of strategically placed switches to control their powered wheelchair. "But the disadvantage of these devices is [...]

What is one of the great fears shared by powered wheelchair users? Running out of juice and being stranded between here and there.

Wheelchair batteries can be a real pain and about as reliable as a wet book of matches. Powerchair users have lived with this problem ever since powered wheelchairs came on the scene. [...]

It seems that there is a steady stream of all-terrain wheelchair offerings of late. That should tell you something about today’s wheelchair users. While home may be where the heart is, the out of the way and hard to get at places are where many wheelchair users want to be.

This tricked out buggy is the [...]

New on the scene- The SIT from Innovative Products Inc., is a powered wheelchair for children that has a sit to stand feature. Standing is a very important function for young children. It is important not just for physiological reasons but also for the child’s functional and social development.

Standing allows the child with a disability [...]