Wheelchair users in developing countries often have very unique needs that traditional wheelchairs are not able to accommodate.

Among these is the need to cover very mixed types of terrain. The wheelchair needs to be versatile enough to use both indoors and on the more rugged and challenging terrain found outdoors.

Amos G. Winter’s, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came up with this new creation, the “leveraged freedom chair,” in hopes that it might ease those problems.

Read more on this wheelchair.