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If you thought prosthetics couldn’t let you “feel” anything but only assist you in the most basic functions, think again. Surgeons have tried a unique method with Claudia Mitchell and have hot-wired the prosthetic to her brain via her shoulder...
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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed “Vocal Joystick” software, which allows disabled people to use computers in a better way. The...
made popular Oct 11 2008
Design Status: The Palm Pistol has just been developed by certified NRA instructor Matthew Carmel and is in the pre-production stage. The product can be booked for a...
made popular Sep 30 2008
AP, East St. Louis
Two teenagers were charged Tuesday with beating their mentally challenged adult cousin over a year with items such as a broom and pipe at the behest of an aunt too ill...
made popular Sep 24 2008
Forget new 4×4s and SUV’s. Instead, watch out for people on wheelchairs beating you to the finish line in a rally!
Surprised? So was I. But this is a really...
made popular Sep 10 2008
AP, Hamilton
A judge has sentenced an Ohio teenager convicted in the torture beating of a mentally disabled woman to 44 years in prison.
made popular Sep 5 2008
Ji-Hoon Hong has designed a scooter especially for the physically challenged and the elderly. Most of us seem to ignore the transportation requirements and needs of...
made popular Aug 28 2008
When we think of the human tongue, we think of a piece of human flesh that serves a lot of purposes, whether it is tasting food, cleaning our lips and mouth, kissing,...
made popular Aug 26 2008
AP, Hamilton
A southwest Ohio teen has pleaded guilty to seven felonies in the torture beating of a mentally disabled woman.
made popular Jul 30 2008
The Italian government was ordered to pay $160,000 to a gay man who received a driver’s license for the disabled after he volunteered information on his sexual...
made popular Jul 16 2008
The state institutions for people with disabilities are failing to find community-based homes for many patients who want them, and have hired 10 state school employees...
made popular Jul 15 2008
Technological developments in the field of software, communication and medicine have prompted and encouraged growth in the field of bionics. Prosthetic devices can now...
made popular Jul 7 2008
They say passion, love and craze to do something is enough to push things to the limit, that’s what Salman Pathan and others has done. They could have been just lived...
made popular Jul 5 2008
As the roads are flooded with run-of-the-mill electric mopeds, industrial designer Nina Augustsson dared to conceive a model that focuses on the needs of the disabled...
made popular Jul 1 2008
Looks like the disabled would find it easier to use computers and control the environment around them. The ACCS device has been selected to be used by the ‘Intel...
made popular Jun 24 2008
One has to appreciate the ingenuity, as well the engineering of this vehicle. While a three-wheeled motorcycle is nothing new, this one pioneers the concept of a...
made popular Jun 20 2008
Much as we find the idea of using a wheelchair disagreeable, there are thousands of people who may at some point of their lives are required to use them. Much of the...
made popular Jun 5 2008
AP, Washington
Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for...
made popular May 11 2008
AP, Geneva
A U.N. convention to protect the rights of the world’s disabled people has been ratified by enough countries to take effect, the U.N. rights chief said...
made popular Apr 4 2008
I had a job working in IT telephone tech support for a couple of months last year for a local Canberra non-profit charitable organisation, Tadaust. The organisation...
made popular Mar 17 2008
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