As the world prepares for the 2016 Paralympics, another, less well-known event is about to take place for the first time in history: The Cybathlon, also known as the cyborg Olympics. The event will be held in a stadium in Zurich, Switzerland this October. How Do They Differ from the Paralympics? Yes, the disability community Read more…
There are complex devices and pieces of technology that took years to develop and perfect. Many of these are the things that people in the disability community use in their everyday lives. from wheelchair vans to lifts, apps and more. Then there are things that people invent that make us look twice at them and Read more…
We all know the importance of technology within the disability community. It helps us create our accessible vans and the other independence products available on the marketplace. Without scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and dreamers we wouldn’t have the technological advances that we do. Now more than ever before we can see the importance that education has Read more…
Most people are intrigued by technology because there’s always new and improved innovations available almost every day. When it comes to adaptive technology, we’re intrigued because of the differences it can mean for the disability community. Some of the latest technologies that could end up having an impact on the disability community include products like Read more…
It’s not every day that a 500 billion-dollar company decides to get into the wheelchair industry, but that is precisely what Google has announced it is going to do. The tech giant recently awarded a 1.125 million-dollar grant to the Center for Discovery in order to help them develop a new piece of wheelchair technology. Read more…
Wheelchair accessibility in Chicago has long been a point of improvement for the city. To this day, the city has made great strides towards being more wheelchair-friendly, but there are still a lot of accessibility barriers that prevent all people from having the same freedom to easily travel around the city. Wheelchair users who live Read more…
Every day, researchers are getting closer to understanding and treating ALS. Just two months ago, the results of a few research studies revealed we’re closer now than we ever have been before. AAN 2016 The 68th annual American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting took place in Vancouver from April 15th through the 21st. More Read more…
Toyota is just one of the car manufacturers whose vans are converted into vans for handicap and disability communities. Now, the Japanese car giant is getting into the wheelchair research and development fields, too. Teaming up with Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway device, Toyota and its development teams have set out to make Read more…
We are always on the lookout for new wheelchair designs as well as prototypes that are getting closer to reaching the market. Recently we have noticed a few awesome wheelchairs that have been making headlines all over the world. The Olympic Wheelchair A few months back, we wrote about how the German car company, BMW Read more…
There was a time when paraplegia or quadriplegia meant that there really wasn’t a chance, save for a miracle occurring, of a person regaining control over their affected extremities. It seems, thanks to modern medicine, that time is nearly over. Technology + Medicine = Incredible Advancements Thanks to neuroscientists, doctors and computer developers from from Read more…
