A group of students from The University of Nottingham have designed an off-road wheelchair to help disabled people cope with rough terrain in developing countries.
... . The novel system allows individuals with disabilities to operate a computer, control a powered wheelchair and interact with their environments simply by moving their tongues.
"This device could ...
... a virtual reality treadmill for the disabled. "Not many people realize," says Stanford who has been confined to a wheelchair since 1988, "the special health risks faced by wheelchair users. Everything ...
Simple exercise machine makes it fun for wheelchair users to fight high obesity, diabetes and heart disease rates.
MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal ...
An Ottawa charity that fixes and sells bargain-priced second-hand wheelchairs is calling on the Ontario government to help people afford those recycled wheels the way it helps people buy more ...
A new kind of autonomous wheelchair under development can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.
A woman who works with the disabled is challenging city officials to take a ride though the slush and snow in a wheelchair.
Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.
ZARAGOZA, Spain, April 30 (UPI) -- Spanish university scientists have developed a wheelchair controlled by the power of thought, promising to transform life for people with severe disabilities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's first stair-climbing wheelchair hit the market with a bang but disappeared with a whimper, a casualty of price that raises a big question: How much will society ...
(AP) -- Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
A new brain-computer interface turns thought into action with
lightning speed, allowing precise piloting of a wheelchair, experts
say. Their advice: "Imagine playing the piano or jogging."
... . The sensor output signals were wirelessly transmitted to a portable computer, which was carried on the wheelchair.
The signals were processed to determine the relative motion of the magnet with ...
The head of a group representing Islanders with disabilities says city buses are still not all wheelchair accessible.
