Add electric drive to any ordinary, manual wheelchair with the WHILL add-on. The amped up wheelchairs can reach top speeds of over 12 mph. The aftermarket augmentation device (pictured), made by ...

FITCHBURG – Take a Madison entrepreneur, put him in a situation outside his comfort zone, and just watch him figure out a novel way to approach it. That's what led to the creation of Rowheels, a ...

If you or a loved one has been dealing with mobility issues, you may be considering purchasing a manual wheelchair. Wheelchairs offer people with limited mobility to get around quickly and without ...

Cyclists have been enjoying the benefits of gears for over a hundred years now but the wheelchair-bound have been stuck with the single 1:1 speed ratio on manual wheelchairs come flat ground or hilly ...

A new wheel design by Salim Nasser -- a NASA engineer, inventor and quadriplegic -- can reduce the repetitive stress injuries that many wheelchair users face. Popular Science reports. With standard ...

Traditional manually powered wheelchairs require the occupant to turn the chair’s rear wheels with a pushing action. This places a lot of stress on muscles that aren’t really designed to be used in ...

The collapsible manual wheelchair was invented in 1933 by Harry Jennings, a mechanical engineer from the United States. Today, there is a vast number of models, for those powered by arm strength as ...

ETH Zurich postgraduate student Reto Togni has developed a prototype wheelchair shown at Dutch Design Week, which is steered by leaning from side to side. The Reagiro wheelchair is designed to give ...