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Disabilità, viaggi e vita attiva: su Instagram si testano le ruote ammortizzate per carrozzina Softwheel

Dal profilo Instagram Wheelchair on the road la vita e le esperienze di due ragazzi disabili alle prese con viaggi e avventure in carrozzina

Dal profilo Instagram Wheelchair on the road la vita e le esperienze di due ragazzi disabili alle prese con viaggi e avventure in carrozzina

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Softwheel: le ruote per carrozzina con sospensioni interne adattabili e ammortizzazione totale - Disabili.com

Le ruote ammortizzate per carrozzina disabili Softwheel hanno le sospensioni inserite alloro interno: una innovazione straordinaria che permette di avere una ammortizzazione superiore, che consente di assorbire colpi, scossoni e vibrazioni anche dei terreni più sconnessi

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"Softwheel" Hard Surface / ZBrush Exercise by Joshua Lynch https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dNvwx

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Rock'n My new pair of incredible @gonumotion #softwheel while running into @sunskits at @abilities_expo in #schaumburg #chicago #numotionmobility #wheelchair #access#technology #awesomness (at Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel)

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This is Why Most “Innovations” in Wheelchair Technology are Utter Bullshit

For the Record: I like NuMotion. I’ve used them before and would recommend them to anyone who needs a new chair or chair repairs.

I recently came across this in my Twitter feed:

Apparently, a new design of wheelchair tire has been released that uses hydraulics to reduce the shock of rough terrain on manual wheelchair users. Sounds pretty cool, right? I thought so when I first heard about it. However, as I started to dig more into the design and how it works, a couple of questions got raised in the back of my mind.

What Happens When it Breaks?

For all intents and purposes, most manual wheelchairs are basically weirdly sized bicycles. We have the same tire tube structure, similar wheel sizes, and spoke configurations. I can go into any bike shop and get a lot of repair work done for a fraction of the cost of a shop specifically designed to service wheelchairs. 

Look at those tires. They’re made of a series of interconnected hydraulic pistons that help maintain the shape of the wheel. What happens when one of those fails? If I blow a couple of spokes, I’ve got a dozen more to help maintain the wheel’s integrity. If one of these breaks down, I could lose the whole tire. And who the hell is going to repair it? And for how much? Also, don’t hydraulics degrade over time?

Who Is This For, Exactly?

A lot of the promotional materials for these tires show people in their day-chairs. I guess these wheels are for the rough-riding, mountain dwelling cripples near a fault line? I understand that these tires are meant to act as a kind of suspension, but wheelchair suspension systems have been around for years and aren’t nearly as expensive (more on that later). 

Wait, HOW much?

Yeah, I can get a whole new ultralight chair for that. Seriously, who the fuck has three grand to drop on a pair of tires for their day chair?

But wait, I have insurance / Medicare. Won’t They Cover a Good Chunk of This?

Oh, you sweet summer child.

When it comes to wheelchair upgrades (and trust me, virtually everything you might need for your chair above what a hospital might give you might as well be considered an upgrade), insurance doesn’t pay for dick.

So we have these new tires that:

A). Are harder to repair than normal tires

B). Nobody in their right might can afford

C). Will be covered by insurance around the time we achieve the Singularity and all of humanity downloads its brain into immortal android bodies.

Every wheelchair “innovation” seem to struggle with many of these issues and I’m especially tired of seeing “improvements” made to wheelchairs that nobody can fucking afford. 

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SoftWheel unveiled Wheel Technology that absorb shock

SoftWheel unveiled Wheel Technology that absorb shock

SoftWheel Technology, an Israeli based startup company founded in 2011 by Gilad Wolf has developed a wheel chair, which is developed to overcome rocky surfaces and go down the stairs. The main goal of making this wheel chair is to make life easy and comfortable for wheel chair user or physically challenged person. This Wheel Chair will be distributed to the needy absolutely free and to do so…

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Softwheel developed the concept into two products – the Acrobat for wheelchairs and the Fluent for bicycles. Both designs use three shock absorbers that also function as spokes. According to an explanation on its website, usually the shocks are static.

However, above a certain load, the center hub deflects around them to absorb bumps. Wired claims the production version will allow users to adjust the firmness or lock the spokes completely.

At the moment the company is focusing on just the two products, but there are future possible automotive applications.

The company thinks the same concept could be applied to cars as well, but it admits to Wired that development could take a decade or more. The CEO even gave a presentation about the Softwheel to Daimler at an innovation meeting, though we’ve no word yet on where that might lead.

Can you imagine how uncomfortable it would be to drive a car without a suspension? Now, think about being stuck like that everyday. That is the situation for many people in wheelchairs.

A company from Israel has come up with an ingenious solution that goes on sale later this year, though. The Softwheel combines a suspension and wheel into a single unit.

According to Wired, the idea was the brainchild of an Israeli farmer who broke his pelvis but still wanted to work in the field.

He began experimenting and came up with a way to combine shock absorbers and a wheel together in a way that worked on existing wheelchairs.

The Acrobat for wheelchairs goes on sale in the fourth quarter of this year for about $2,000 per pair. Scroll down to see demonstrations in two videos.

Latest Your next car could feature Softwheels Softwheel developed the concept into two products – the Acrobat for wheelchairs and the

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