Since electric wheelchair do n’t run forever , users will often still rely on a manual version for getting around the house . But reckon on their physical precondition , switching between gadget can be difficult . So the IWA , orIndependent Wheelchair Assist , bring a temporary galvanic movement to any chair .
It provides the same tenacious - aloofness mobility as an galvanic wheelchair , but without the incommodiousness of having to switch back and forward between professorship . And while the IWA might search a lot like the Segway , it ’s really designed as a sort of miniature towage - truck . Users roll up to it and connect their wheelchair via a particular bracket which also serve to raise its front caster wheels off the soil . From there , they expend the handlebar on the IWA to propel and maneuver the whole fishing rig .
Now , even though the IWA ’s creators have built a mockup of the equipment , it ’s still far from being a consumer - ready Cartesian product . For the here and now it ’s just a meekness for theJames Dyson Award , but in the past many winning aim have gone on to become actual product . And if the IWA ’s target price tag end of around $ 3 - 4,000 can be fulfill , there ’s a prospect this could be a viable option to using multiple wheelchairs .
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