All Entries in the "Power Wheelchairs" Category
Topchair Stair Climber Wheelchair Ready To Climb
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 [...]
WizzyBug – A Powered Wheelchair Just For Kids
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 [...]
Shielding The Powered Wheelchair User
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 [...]
Beer For The Wheelchair
No, I’m not promoting drinking while driving your powered wheelchair or mobility scooter. Far from it, but you may want to hold onto a cold one just in case your wheelchair batteries need a pick me up.
Powered wheelchair users have always longed for greater battery range and a more reliable fuel system for their [...]
MobiLife PMV X22- Getting up there
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 [...]
Shirt Controlled Wheelchair
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 [...]
Wheelchair Powered By Fuel Cells
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. [...]
