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WALL-E-Style Chair Coming to a Couch Potato Near You

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Didn’t I read somewhere that too much sitting down is slowly killing us all? Well, apparently this isn’t a problem for a young Iranian designer Mohamad Sadegh Darounkolayi, who’d like to see everyone prance around in these motorized chairs, reminiscent of what we saw in WALL-E…. Needless to say

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April 20th, 2011 by: Range

In Japan, the Wheelchairs Follow You

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Ordinary wheelchairs require considerable effort from the person on them in order to move, unless of course someone pushes the wheelchair. However, in Japan (and probably other countries as well), some care facilities don’t have enough staff to accommodate the wheelchair-bound. That’s why researchers at Saitama University came up with…

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August 13th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

News Concept Motor Add-on Turbocharges Wheelchairs

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Motorized wheelchairs, while very practical, are very expensive as well. Designer Ju Hyun Lee created the NEWS concept to reap the benefits of a motorized wheelchair without the prohibitive costs. The motorized add-on would attach to conventional wheelchairs, fusing man and machine, Power Xtreme!

The system’s modular nature saves money…

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April 25th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Steampunk Professor X Wheelchair: What if… Prof. X was a 19th Century Drunk?

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Then this would definitely be his ride. First class craftsmanship, as befits a powerful telepath. A powerful alcoholic telepath. Forge and Zero probably helped him make the wheelchair, as it’s made of parts from the past 135 years.

The Steampunk Professor Xavier Wheelchair by Daniel Valdez was made from a…

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March 8th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Jake Sully Wheelchair Action Figure [Avatar Epic Fail]

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I’ll apologize in advance to any of our readers who find themselves confined to a wheelchair, or who are physically-challenged in any way. But whoever at Mattel thought that this pint-sized Jake Sully in a wheelchair should be called an “action figure” clearly had their head firmly up their arse.…

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February 19th, 2010 by: Technabob

Rodem Next-Gen Wheelchair Doesn’T Look Like a Wheelchair at All

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Gundam fans! Veda (Vader?) is real! And it’s in Japan of course. Fortunately the Veda International Robot Research and Development Centre isn’t out to control or enslave humanity. It’s a joint project by robotics company Tmsuk Co. along with 10 other universities and research institutions. Veda’s first project is 0…

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August 28th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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