Seth McBride

1 week ago | newmobility.com | Seth McBride

Steve Wickwar, a manual wheelchair user and C6 quad, checks out the accessibility of Apple Watch features like fitness monitoring, health tracking and home automation. While it may seem like a distant dream for wheelchair users to remain in their wheelchairs while flying commercially, promising news emerged from last week’s Aircraft Interiors Expo in Germany.

4 weeks ago | newmobility.com | Seth McBride

Last month, I had a nightmare of an air travel experience with my 7-year-old son. A couple days later, I read that most of the major airlines were suing to retract recently enacted disability protections, only to then read about new attacks on disability rights. All of this was happening as my 3-year-old daughter was dealing with recurrent ear infections, my family was passing around this year’s particularly-awful strain of influenza, and the weather … well, it was nasty.

1 month ago | newmobility.com | Seth McBride

The Hook-It is a bent metal bar that wraps around your forearm to extend your reach and hook keys, cups, drawer pulls and a variety of other objects. “I find this little tool so convenient that I bought one for every room,” says Steve Wickwar, a C6 quad. Check out his video review. We’ve seen a lot of wheelchair prototypes unveiled over the years, but few have been as head-scratching as this Swiss-designed power chair. Its big breakthrough?

1 month ago | newmobility.com | Seth McBride

Bowhead, a company best known for its adaptive mountain bikes, has released its first wheelchair. The Era features a molded carbon fiber frame and a host of innovations — including an adjustable width frame and a quick release seating system, among others — designed to make the Era more versatile and adaptable than any other manual wheelchair on the market. The iReach Mouthstick Stylus has a carbon fiber bite plate with an aluminum stylus rod and a touchscreen-functional tip.

1 month ago | newmobility.com | Seth McBride

Bowhead, a company best known for adaptive mountain bikes, has released its first wheelchair. The Era features a molded carbon fiber frame and a host of design innovations that make the Era more versatile and adaptable than any other manual wheelchair on the market. The biggest innovation: The frame chassis and the seating system are two separate, interlocking pieces.