Batec Mobility: mission and project

[LiberalArkie]

Very Cool

[Vincardog]

1. Good job

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Pau Bach and his company rock!

That device seems like it'd be great for someone not interested in or able to afford a power wheelchair!

Thanks, LA, for posting this.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Supposedly it is better than a 4 wheeled powered chair as it is easy to go up curbs etc.

I guess the grippy powered single front wheel. Looks really neat for the young people who like to get out. I liked the part where the quadriplegic was able to use it.

[Pastiche423]

4. With a $4999 price tag

not many crips (it's what I call myself) will be able to afford one.

Too many able bodied people just say - what a wonderful thing without stopping to think of the affordability.

[LiberalArkie]

5. It seems inline with the Jazzy tight turn chairs and some go the others.

If my back finally knocks my legs out, it would be nice to be abel to go out on the trails and stuff, which I can't manage now from nerve /disk problems and vertigo and heart problems and asthma. It seems like it would be fun although I can not justify not getting the exercise by walking and using crutches at times. Crutches are really good cardio for me.

[Pastiche423]

6. It's nice that you could afford that "add-on"

as well as paying for your own chair.

[LiberalArkie]

7. I can't on either.. When my nerve gets pinched I have to rely on crutches for everything.

My sister has one of the Jazzy as she has spinal cord injury and can't do much or anything. Takes he about an hour to feed herself as the paralysis is progressing pretty good after 35 years.