Take A Peek At Some Future Wheelchairs
Ziggi | Apr 27, 2011 | Comments 3
Take a peek at what wheelchairs of the future may look like.
From the minds of designers, students, researchers, and just everyday folks who believe that dreams can be made to come true.
The wheelchairs pictured below are all concept wheelchairs or purpose built prototypes. None of them are presently commercially available. Take a good look at them, you may see some of these sitting on a shelf at your local superstore someday soon.
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While you can’t get an up close look at these concept wheelchairs, you can however get a look and probably a test drive in some of today’s wheelchairs at one of the upcoming Independence Expo’s.
Check it out: http://www.independenceexpo.org/
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Excelente. soy paraplegico en Costa Rica pero las sillas de ruedas son muy caras. Ojala estas opciones no sean de precios altos.
I certainly hope wheelchairs don’t look like this in the future! They seem very uncomfortable!
The basic problem with wheelchairs is right there in the name — The fact that they are ‘chairs’. The human body was not designed for sitting, and doesn’t function well in that position. Originally wheelchairs were designed as adult baby carriages, forte convenience of the (able-bodied) person propelling them. Only now are we getting away from this paradigm. But even for new generation standup chairs, sitting is the default position. I hope I live long enough to experience an exoskeleton non-wheelchair with little servo motors at the joints.