Electric Wheelchair Future Technology

You are a big, strong person.  All your life you’ve been known as rugged, out of doors, and powerful.  Your first toy was a fire engine, your first pet was a husky, and when you got your first car, it was a truck.  You know all the back roads by heart and you’ve never let anything get in your way for long.  Now, life has put a new obstacle in your path; physical disability.  Are you the type of person that is going to let that slow you down?  Doesn’t sound like it to me!  If life says you need a wheelchair, then you should demand one that matches who you are.  A heavy duty person needs a heavy duty wheelchair.

The difference between a normal or electric chair and their heavy duty counterparts lies mainly in the construction.  A conventional wheelchair will work soundly for many years on pavement, asphalt and indoors.  They are meant for mainly urban and suburban environments.  But try and take a conventional model down a trail, or over other bumpy terrain, and more than likely it can break.

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Owning a portable wheelchair is an important first step towards reclaiming the independence that a disability can take away from you.  Mobility is often times a challenge for the disabled, but it need not be.  Putting an emphasis on portability instead of overall ability can change one’s entire outlook on life.

Owning a portable wheelchair means several things, some of them bad, but many of them positive. Consider that most wheelchairs can be a two person undertaking.  This means that while in your chair, you will have a friend, family member or loved one always behind you, helping you on your way.  For many, this is very comforting.  Companionship of this sort will also help to bring you closer to those around you, and help elucidate the many reasons to be happy that these people are in your life.

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The questions surrounding wheelchair mobility are many and varied.  Where can and can’t a person in a wheelchair go?  What sort and quality of ride should be expected?  How much of an expense will maintenance and repairs be?  How does the quality of certain kinds of wheelchairs match up?  As with any question of this magnitude, you should ask a doctor or other professional to advise you on the specifics of your situation.  Nevertheless, there are a number of general guidelines that you can learn on your own.

A wheelchair is really only as capable as the terrain it is going over.  Think of it as a car.  You may have the nicest Humvee and the best driving skill, but if the road isn’t passable, none of that matters.  This is true of wheelchairs just as it is true of people walking.  So, your wheelchair mobility is more a question of the decisions you make regarding where you take your chair.

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Aaron Fotheringham was competing against himself when he found a place in the Guinness book of records as the first person to complete a back flip in a wheelchair. He has been doing it ever since 2006 when he did it for the first time. But this time on October 25th, it is officially recorded.

Aaron Fotheringham suffers from a medical condition called spina bifida has been wheel chair bound for the last 3 years.

It was a risky move to complete this wheel chair stunt as he could have hurt himself in the event of losing his concentration or speed and falling on the ramp. Aaron Fotheringham fell and hit the ground a couple of times before he completed the back flip.

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When choosing, buying and using a product, never mind whether it is a electric wheelchair, mobility scooter, electric car or a glucose meter for diabetes… technology does play an important role, but what really makes or breaks user experience is the design.

Therefore we have to thank designers, that help push technology further every year – making it smaller, cooler, friendlier and more ergonomic… One of the biggest design contests for technology is the Autodesk's Inventor Student Design Competition organized by Technische Universiteit of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

This year a team of Polish design students (Michal Piersa, Milosz Jamrozy, Igor Modelski,Bogusz Radziemski, Rafal Krzysiak and Kamil Ruszczyk) from Politechnika Warszawska University won a grand prize for their design of futuristic wheelchair!

Quick inspection of design reveals that wheelchair is manual, designed to be driven by muscular force. The main invention is inclusion of gyroscope mounted underneath the centrally positioned seat. This concept is already known from Segway and some other stair climbing electric wheelchair models (check out our review of iBot). This allows wheelchair to remain vertically stable while only using two wheels. Hidden on the rendered picture, but visible when inspecting model in 3D (you can download the Autodesk's DWF file here for free), is the battery required to power the gyroscope. What kind of battery is used, is unknown, as this is

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As we cover technological breakthrough in mobility and accessible devices, most of our coverages are focused on new technology or some other improvements. One common thing to all these new and upcoming devices and solutions is that they are very expensive, carrying a price tag of many thousand dollars… Ingenuity of a charity Free wheelchair mission could challenge all commercial devices, and drop price point for wheelchairs dramatically! 

Many of us can not afford new electric wheelchair every time we wish to. Medicare and other insurance companies always seem to find a just reason to dodge the payment. But we are still scratching only the surface of the problem, as worldwide there are over 100 million people with need for a wheelchair (manual or electric), but can not afford it. Charity organization Free wheelchair mission is helping these poorest of the poor, by giving away wheelchairs for free. "So what?", you say. Sure, we have had charities and donations before, giving away wheelchairs, but mostly they can help a few, or mostly up to few dozen people. What sets Free wheelchair mission apart, is their plan, and their numbers. In last five years

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