All Entries in the "Power Wheelchairs" Category
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 that [...]
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. [...]
Superfourin- All Terrain Wheelchair & Nurse
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 [...]
Pediatric Sit To Stand Wheelchair
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 [...]
Power Wheelchair On-Roading
On any given day you can find a story in some local newspaper regarding a powerwheeler who went on-roading and wound up nearly simulating roadkill. Power wheelchair speeds have certainly changed. For years the average speed was somewhere around 4.5 mph. Many scooters and chairs can now pump out close to 7 or 8 mph [...]
