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Wheelchair for extreme sports

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-03-14 10:01

When his brother couldn’t get cooperation from the manufacturer of his tennis wheelchair regarding adjustments, they decided to do it themselves. In 1992 after being in the aerospace industry, Mike left his job and they formed their own wheelchair company ...
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System to identify wheelchair friendly locations

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-01-03 14:25

The signpost used by this system allows to recognize the space as a reference in accessibility and to provide information on the current state of accessibility conditions of the place, and can be used in various situations (ex: in the door of the ...
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Parents find a dog to carry an oxygen tank for their daughter

Solution Shared by Marie Esmenio on 2014-06-20 16:52

Little Alida was diagnosed with NEHI when she was only eight months old. To her parents, Aaron and Debbie Knobloch, this meant that even a walk in the park would be very difficult because the equipment was too heavy for the daughter to carry by herself. ...
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Former wheelchair user creates open source wheelchair

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-01-05 16:39

Janna was inspired by the frustrations he felt himself when he was in a wheelchair for a few months, recovering from an accident. Additionally, the designer was also driven to create this device due to Letu, a Samburu man disabled by poliomyelitis he met ...
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Father creates custom cane for his daughter

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-12-13 19:55

Celeste, born in 1961, had a stroke in 2010 that left her paralyzed on the left side. She uses a cane to walk distances but one day in the hospital she grabbed a handrail and took off. “I thought, ‘Wow!’ And all of a sudden a light went off. I said, ‘She ...
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Parents create a track-chair for their paralysed son

Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-04-20 13:11

Tim Swenson and his wife Donna have a son, Jeff, who remained paralysed after a car accident in 1998. "But I always thought about how can I get Jeff back outdoors and off the hard surface?" Tim said. Having 30 years of experience in the ...
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Paraplegic invents Do-It-Yourself Handcycle combining a bycicle and a wheelchair

Solution Shared by Patient Innovation on 2013-10-21 16:28

“The concept or the idea are essentially two points: Use parts of an old bicycle and knock over the wheelchair to sit on the backrest (see sketch). (This let you to sit deeper.) A bit more concrete: Allow handcycling as “do it yourself”, “how to..” or ...
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Segfree- a more fun wheelchair for different activities

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-12-22 16:23

Mario thought up the idea of a Segway wheelchair, a technology that combines motorised wheelchairs with capabilities far beyond the conventional wheelchair. But the couple found out that these products were not only limited to customised measurements per ...
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App for people with disabilities

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-05-03 13:01

“A lot of people ask me how I thought of this app idea. It all started when I was watching a man in a wheelchair attempt to open a very heavy door at a sporting goods store. The door didn't have an automatic push button to open the door. As the man ...
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Learn to walk

Solution Shared by Rita Duarte Silva on 2014-02-10 12:02

Learn to walk- My daughter is visual impaired, legally blind with 5% vision in a single eye. Learn to walk was something more difficult for her than for most kids. She seemed scared. Instead of holding her hand all the time, making her unbalanced we ...
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