A couple of days ago we posted an article about the release of the Carbon Black wheelchair – an innovative and stylish chair we’d been anticipating for a while. Undoubtedly, the CB’s innovative design is something of a game changer for how we approach wheelchair design, but, although they’re now on sale, they’re tough to…
Carbon Black, the revolutionary wheelchair that has had us all on tenterhooks, waiting for its release, has finally arrived. We first became aware of it last June when Fiona saw, and promptly broke, a prototype of the chair at The Design Museum. Immediately the Carbon Black had our attention due to its sleek and intelligent…
At the Alternative Limb Project, prosthetic legs aren’t seen as impediments but instead as blank canvases for art and expression. They create beautifully imagined prostheses, unlike anything you’ve ever seen, that are bespoke and uniquely tailored to the wearer’s taste and requirements. They’re functional, unusually stylish, quirky and different, making them alternative in many a sense…
Google Glass is a new piece of technology that “has a camera, it speaks to you (and you to it), and gives contextual information about what’s in front of your eyes – in effect, an audio-visual information filter between you and the world.” Ultimately it is a wearable computer like in all the sci-fi films. It…
With less than three weeks to go until Christmas, now is the time to really start thinking about doing some shopping, if you haven’t already. As we’ve said before, it’s not necessary when you’re shopping for a less able friend or family member to concentrate entirely on their disability. Nine times out of ten you…
Last saturday our Wheeled in Chelsea Competition Winner, James from Oliver James Garden rooms claimed his meal for two having written a funny piece on being partially bind on holiday in Sardinia – it involved a sun-bed & sun cream, give it a read. I chose Le Cercle for James and his girlfriend Jenny, however…
A year ago we mentioned the WHILL add-on for a wheelchair that turned it into an automatic wheelchair. Unlike many of the inventions we found the WHILL has now developed into a new automatic wheelchair rather than an add-on. Available to buy in the US in early 2014, no prices yet. It operates using a tilt…
In general, when you buy Christmas presents for less able friends and family, they don’t have to be much different from those you’d buy for anyone else. Less able people don’t just want a boring pile of pills, grab rails, beakers and dull mobility aids waiting for them under the tree. Having said that, sometimes…
It’s easy to tell, from the unrelenting advertising, that the Christmas season is now officially upon us. As easy as it would be to whine about ‘Christmas starting earlier every year’ we actually think that it’s quite a good thing to be reminded about it so early on. This way you can get all your…