Words of thank you aren't near enough for their service.
Everyday is veterans day! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Words of thank you aren't near enough for their service.
Everyday is veterans day! ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thank You To Our Veterans
Life is tough on everybody, but when you have a disability, it can be even harder.
It doesn't take much to see or ask if there is anything you can do to help someone.
Just the gesture alone can go a long way to making people feel valued, cared about, and that they are not alone out there.
We all need help sometimes, so why not help others? ;-)
(Credit Photo: Dossy Blumenthal)
Help The Handicapped
Helping The Elderly
Beautiful People
Robotics Help The Paralyzed Stand And Regain Mobility
Beach Wheelchair
Someone I Know And Didn't Know
A WOW Wheelchair
Rock The House
Walking Tall Again
From The Window In the Nursing Home
Wheelchair Complexity
The Pain of Parkinson's
From Wheelchair to Walking
When Technology Fails, People Can Succeed
I am very excited by this new assistive technology for personal mobility coming out of Japan that can be used to help the aged or handicapped.
Rather than have to buy a separate electric scooter for longer distances that is heavy and can be challenging for people with certain disabilities to use, the WHILL is a simple add-on that can be attached to and removed from a regular wheelchair and can be steered, like a Segway, simply by leaning in the direction you want to go.
The WHILL is high-tech looking--like a futurist headphone that you place over the wheels of the chair and according to Gizmodo, it turns the wheels with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that powers the chair up to 12 mph for 19 miles and then recharges in under 2 hours.
While pricing information is not yet available, my assumption is that this add-on will be significantly cheaper than a full-out electronic scooter.
One concern that I have about the WHILL is how someone who is wheelchair-bound will be able to attach/remove the drive-train device without the help of an aide or nurse. Perhaps an even more futuristic version will have the U-shaped WHILL built with push-button retractable arms, so that the attachment can simply "open up" rather than have to be removed.
Another question that I have is what safety features will be built in for example for automatic cut-off should someone using it get ill and keel over unto the device causing it to drive/spin out of control. I am thinking a weight-sensor on the WHILL that detects if too much of a person's body weight is leaning on it and then cause a safety shutdown.
Overall, I am encouraged by what WHILL will soon be bringing to help people in need to get around more easily in the future.
Wheelchairs Get A Boost