All Entries Tagged With: "adaptive"
Drinkup – An Aid To Independent Living
NEW PRODUCT: Drinkup is a versatile aid to daily living, hands-free drinking and oral rehydration self-help & self-assistance system allowing people who are unable to lift or pour water, to drink and rehydrate themselves.
Mowing From A Wheelchair
Some things just get tougher all of the time. Copping out used to be a lot easier for some wheelchair users but inclusion, accessibility, and adaptive devices have made it ever more difficult to bounce out of those humdrum chores that no one likes to do. Mowing the lawn has always been one of those [...]
In The Blink Of An Eye
In the blink of an eye you can control your iPod and maybe more. A Japanese researcher, Osaka University’s Kazuhiro Taniguchi, says he has developed a blink based system that will soon let people run their iPods and more with the flick of an eye. As a person does not have to move either hand, [...]
Boss Hoss Cycles To Roll Out Wheelchair Friendly Trike
Boss Hoss Cycles will be introducing the Boss Hoss Advantage Trike, a wheelchair-accessible trike specially tailored for wheelchair users. The Advantage will be unveiled during Daytona Bike Week, Feb. 29-March 8 at the Daytona Speedway in Daytona, Florida. No pictures yet but here is the burn from Clutch & Chrome news: "As the industry’s first [...]
Grasping- A Simple Solution
Sometimes doing the things you want to do is just a matter of getting a grip on them. For many people with diminished hand function grasping or holding is not possible. This becomes a real lifestyle hit and some of the passion for things like fishing, gardening, painting, cooking, or just tinkering ultimately become dreams [...]
