As usual, we are not affiliated to these products, we just share because we like cool tech!
Category: Cool stuff
Honda Walking Assist Devices
These devices are designed to help people to walk more easily, in a variety of ways. As usual, we are not endorsing these products, just putting it out there as cool stuff. For more information, click here.
Things we take for granted.
An Irish student has developed a shaving device for people with limited hand dexterity. EnableArm was inspired by Aaron’s late grandfather who suffered from limited hand dexterity due to a stroke. It is a fully functional device capable of shaving facial hair for people with limited use of their hands.
Navigate with your feet
This device works by using your phone’s GPS navigation, connecting to pods in your shoes, issuing vibrations in the pods to direct you left or right.
As usual, we are not endorsing this product, just putting it out there as cool stuff. For more information, click here.
Never give up
NEVER GIVE UP
Posted by I love climbing on Wednesday, November 11, 2015
TEK RMS Upright Wheelchair
This devise allows a paraplegic person to stand upright and move about. This cool piece of AT is not without it’s limitations, but it looks like a fantastic piece of kit. As usual, we are not endorsing this product, just putting it out there as cool stuff. For more information, click here.
R3D3
As well as making cars, Hyundai, as a by-product of automobile automation, has branched out into personal mobility robots. Robocob might be coming to a police station near you sooner than you think. See full details here.
Toddler in homemade wheelchair
Here at ATLibrary, we like cool AT, and we usually pick up on leading edge kit. However, this time we buck the trend with this story about a homemade wheelchair, going to prove that it does not always have to be high tech.
At 13-months old, the paralyzed toddler skilfully wheels her homemade wheelchair around the simulated track at Treehouse, an indoor playground in northeast Edmonton that she often visits with her mom.
For the full story,click here.
Finger Reader
We are not endorsing the product as we have no experience with it. We do however, like the concept and so it ends up in out ‘Cool Stuff’ category.
See the MIT Media Lab notes on the FingerReader for details, click the image above for a youtube video on the FingerReader, or here for yet another video!
‘Anti-shake’ Spoon
We are not endorsing the product as we have no experience with it. We do however, like the concept and so it ends up in out ‘Cool Stuff’ category.
See Liftware for details.
