News tagged with wheelchair
Belgian says he was alert but mute for 23 years
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
This smart wheelchair has laser vision
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...
Panasonic develops bed that turns into wheelchair
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Japan's Panasonic Corp. has developed a "Robotic Bed" that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people, it announced Friday.
Japan robotics experts unveil sci-fi wheelchair
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Robotics and medical experts in Japan on Wednesday unveiled the prototype of a new hi-tech electric wheelchair that resembles a scooter and promises greater mobility.
Seriously ill Briton wins landmark ruling on assisted suicide
Jul 30, 2009 |
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A British multiple sclerosis sufferer won a landmark victory Thursday in her long-running legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system
Jul 06, 2009 |
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An assistive technology that enables individuals to maneuver a powered wheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements can be operated by individuals with high-level spinal cord injuries, ...
Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(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.
Questions from end of stair-climbing wheelchair
May 25, 2009 |
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(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 agree to pay for high-tech ...
Thought-propelled wheelchair developed in Italy
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.
Babies & Robots: Infant power mobility on display
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Children with mobility issues, like cerebral palsy and spina bifida, can't explore the world like other babies, because they can't crawl or walk. Infant development emerges from the thousands of daily discoveries ...
Robot wheelchair finds its own way
Sep 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
Aerobic exercise for the wheelchair-bound
Sep 10, 2008 |
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University of Texas at Austin alumnus, Chris Stanford (MSEE '91), and Electrical & Computer Engineering undergraduates are working on making exercise fun for wheelchair users. For the last year, Stanford has ...
