[apackof2]

Interesting...

[BushCountry]

Great machines, the technology is unbelieveable, however no one will be able to service or afford them. Medicare will not pay for them.

[CanisRex]

Very interesting. What grand times we live in! For every terrorist packing a lethal arsenal in a backpack, we have so much bounty that really improves the quality of life for so many of us.

[joey'smom]

Dateline had a piece on this Sunday night -- truly amazing machine! John Hockenberry was the correspondent and compared his wheelchair with it -- no comparison! His jaw was actually dropping at the sight of what this new chair could do.

[js1138]

[js1138]

http://www.dynopower.freeserve.co.uk/homepages/newchair.htm

[joey'smom]

Just in time for Larry Flynt's campaign! Wow!

[TBall]

I wonder how that think would do down a long pitch? Maybe try it on the stairs in George Town.

[Criminal Number 18F]

This is closely related, both corporately and technically, to the Segway.

Insurers will gladly pay for these wheelchairs because they will allow disabled people to return to productive life more rapidly and completely. To the insurers, this is disability money they need not pay. WHo do you think buys handicap vans for people who are too far gone to use a normal car with hand controls? Medicaid, and other insurers.

As someone pointed out, this technology will become less costly with time and volume.

I have a friend who is a perfect candidate for one of these. He's paralysed from the nipples down. He also can afford it (he invested the settlement and disability money wisely, and he makes a great living as an engineer). He has not let the conventional chair hold him back, but one of these will really give him wings.

This could be the last great advance in wheelchairs, because other therapies are likely to make spinal cord and other nerve tissue injuries non-crippling within our lifetimes. It's an exciting time to be alive in the Free World.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[RJCogburn]

I have not met him, but the inventor, Kamen is a brilliant and fascinating fellow, to judge by what he does here in Manchester.

He invented the intravenous infusion pump a number of years ago. He is working on a "science hall of fame' thing in which the great scientists and their accomplishments are featured.

He has started a place in the Millyard call Science Enrichment Encounters for kids to get introduced and excited by science.

He started a national science competition in which teams build robotic devices and have their national competition in Disneyworld.

Just a fascinating fellow.

[HamiltonJay]

Saw some video of this thing a few days ago, it is definately impressive.