At Blue Badge Style we believe that mobility aids do not have to be dull, grey and ugly. We’ve spent a good deal of time hunting down sticks, crutches and canes that go against the grain and provide a stylish and fun look whilst maintaining quality functionality. Over the years we’ve covered many trendy and…
A couple of weeks ago, Topro Ltd generously lent us one of their fabulous Rollz Motion Rollators – made by Dutch company, Rollz – in order for us to film and review it. We had a great time playing around with it and, despite our rollator using tester unfortunately being unable to make it, I…
Just back from a week in Mykonos where we stayed in a very accessible villa unfortunately the rest of the island was less so. We spent most of the time digging the hired BMW out of gravel and searching, unsuccessfully, for restaurants with disabled toilets. All will be revealed in a further article. It was…
Last week’s Breaking Through exhibition, at the Dyson Building in Battersea, offered a chance to see some of the latest designs aimed at building towards a more inclusive future for less able and elder people. The exhibition explored how current research by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art is translating…
If you could custom-build a new wheelchair from scratch, what would it look like? It’s something we’ve been pondering as we look back at the stylish wheelchairs, accessories and parts we’ve covered over the years. We want to know what the perfect wheelchair looks like in 2014 and how it works. So, in the next…
You may have seen on our Facebook Page that we met Lord Livingston, Minister of State For Trade & Investment, at Sesame Lifts . They produce those lovely lifts that appear from disappearing stairs. The video below shows a lift for a residential Listed Building in Edinburgh but I digress, the meeting was a surprising…
We were rather surprised last week to see Countdown presenter, Rachel Riley, in a gleaming gold mobility scooter. We assumed that Channel 4’s premier mathematician hadn’t suddenly decided that she had a need for a mobility aid (her high heels were something of a giveaway) but was merely posing for some kind of promotion. What…
Hearing aids have been around for over a century but, as with much disability related equipment, it’s only recently that people have thought to improve how they look, as well as how they work. Throughout their long history, hearing aids have barely been adapted to become more discrete and have virtually never been thought of…
Most of the time crutches follow the same bog standard design which has barely changed throughout the years. For a long time people have expected and accepted that all crutches will be the same and that that same design will be dull, functional and grey. But a look at some design concepts and artistic takes…