New Mobility

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.

3 weeks ago | newmobility.com | Ian Ruder

The Constructa Cushion line from Spex Seating is a new family of foam cushions with a modular design that can be customized to meet complex postural needs for people of all ages. The Constructa Shape and Constructa Flex each consist of multiple levels of adjustable foam supports that can be easily moved around to relieve pressure points and improve comfort, function and posture. The Flex adds a multi-piece pelvic adjustment kit for trickier seating solutions.

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 | Ian Ruder

This is the best our brightest minds can come up with? The question came to my mind while reading an article about a Swiss project to build an autonomous wheelchair assisted by drones with integrated artificial intelligence. While each of those tech buzzwords conveys some degree of coolness on its own, together they make no sense. Wheelchairs are already conspicuous enough — now you want to add a drone constantly buzzing and hovering overhead?