mobility
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Save Your Legs With This Self-Balancing Briefcase Unicycle
Honda has been demoing its sitting Segways for years now, but the Hammacher Schlemmer version has one crucial advantage over them: it’s actually for sale. So instead of just being tantalized by a future where legs are an unnecessary human feature, we’re now officially living it.
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Electric Bike Tech Makes Power-Assisted Wheelchairs More Affordable
Not surprisingly, those fancy electric wheelchairs that let people with limited mobility cruise about with the push of a joystick are incredibly expensive. So adapting technology that powers modern electric bikes, Yamaha’s JWX-2 electric assist gives that same mobility for less — and can be retrofitted to almost any manually driven wheelchair.
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British Woman Becomes First Person To Don A Robotic Power Suit For Life
Claire Lomas is an extraordinary woman. She is paralysed from the chest down, but amazingly that didn’t stop her from completing the gruelling London marathon in 17 days with the help of a robotic exoskeleton. Now, she’s become the first person in history to take home a power suit for everyday living. Even though she…
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I Can’t Wait To Tool Around On These Robo-Skates
I may generally lack a sense of balance but that doesn’t stop me from wanting a pair of these remote-controlled electric heel-skates. Oh wait, 80kg weight limit? And this is coming to America?