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MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command.
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Forget new 4×4s and SUV’s. Instead, watch out for people on wheelchairs beating you to the finish line in a rally!
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A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink.
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ONCE the undisputed King of Pop, here frail MICHAEL JACKSON is reduced to using a wheelchair as he approaches his half century.
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El Paso police arrested a man on a charge of attempted murder Saturday after he was caught fleeing the scene of a stabbing in his motorized wheelchair.The 52-year-old...
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A new voice controlled wheelchair will allow patients who are not physically able to maneuver a joystick control and use a wheelchair. It uses voice recognition...
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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...
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Jason Dorshorst thought somebody ripped off his $4,000 wheelchair in broad daylight while he washed his pickup truck. It turns out that a good Samaritan took it to keep...
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Jason Dorshorst thought somebody ripped off his $4,000 wheelchair in broad daylight while he washed his pickup truck. It turns out that a good Samaritan took it to keep...
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AP, Boston
The Boston Marathon has wire-to-wire winners in both the men’s and women’s wheelchair divisions.Japan’s Wakako Tsuchida won her second straight title,...
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A single mother kept her young son in a wheelchair for five years because she feared he would become independent and leave her, a court heard yesterday.
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Another paralyzed inmate claims deputies tipped him out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor, just weeks after video of a similar dumping at the same facility...
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A deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair onto a Tampa jailhouse floor has been released from jail after posting bail.Jail records show...
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A sheriff’s deputy who was videotaped dumping a paralyzed man from a wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor has been charged with abuse of a disabled person, a...
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Canada’s Fabien Lavoie , left, makes a pass past Great Britain’s Alan Ash during their bronze medal final wheelchair rugby match at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in Beijing , China, Tuesday, Sept.16, 2008. Canada took the bronze medal winning...
