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Many photos at link.

1 posted on 11/14/2013 10:04:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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only 400 watts? my blender motor has more power. i think my vacuum motor does too.

2 posted on 11/14/2013 10:15:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson

We gotta get Jim one of these!

3 posted on 11/14/2013 10:25:54 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)

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4 posted on 11/14/2013 10:26:33 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like the 30 deg tilt technology and the track system.

Could be rough on carpets though.

5 posted on 11/14/2013 10:28:54 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)

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15 posted on 11/14/2013 11:07:52 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)

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The pricing is in line with a traditional electric powered wheelchair. Most of the traditional motorized chairs start at about $15K-$18K depending on added options such as tilt back seat etc. My wife had a Jazzy Quantum 1400 for about 11 years and loved it. It could go most places she wanted to go. It was replaced with a Permobil C 300 and she definitely misses the old Jazzy.

The Permobil seems to have difficulty getting over even minimal things like raised thresholds more than a quarter inch high. The Jazzy had a much better stabilization system and kept it from flipping over once.

Track chairs have actually been around for way over 10 years probably longer than that. I remember seeing one or two at a disability equipment expo years ago and another chair that could climb stairs. This was also about the time the mini vans were starting to be converted for wheelchair access. We looked at one, laughed, and said no way it would make it up our driveway. We use a high top Dodge 250 van with a hydraulic wheelchair lift.

She would love to have a track wheelchair LOL.

23 posted on 11/14/2013 11:24:56 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)

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It's nothing new:

Tank Chair

24 posted on 11/15/2013 12:00:12 AM PST by Doug Loss

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes! An all-terrain assault chair.

25 posted on 11/15/2013 12:10:05 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)

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Very neat, but where’s the 20mm barrel.

Vital for balancing in stairs and terrain.

27 posted on 11/15/2013 1:29:13 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)

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Cool device. Will Medicare pay for them?

As for the linked article...

Too much Apple worship there for my taste.

28 posted on 11/15/2013 1:44:30 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)

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The tracks look too narrow for sand.

31 posted on 11/15/2013 2:31:58 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)

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