The first time New Zealand inventor Kevin Halsall stepped on a Segway, he saw the potential of using the technology to build a wheelchair that could be controlled without a joystick or requiring the ...

My patient was bleeding profusely from the esophagus, and as a first-year gastroenterology fellow, I had been called in to the UCSF intensive care unit to stop it. We were successful. The next morning ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When British architect Suzanne Brewer saw a man in a wheelchair get lost in the Christmas crowd at her local rugby club, she wondered why there ...

Scientists are still trying to figure out how to restore full locomotion to patients who have suffered debilitating accidents that forced into wheelchairs. But until procedures that can reconnect the ...

Israeli innovation has once again introduced potentially life-changing technology to the world. Dr. Amit Goffer gave millions of paraplegics (paralyzed from waist down) the opportunity to stand ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado – Kolakanta Darling is determined to maintain her independence and her mobility despite a seven-year battle against the depredations of multiple sclerosis. She retains a ...

Toyota has unveiled a partnership with Segway human transporter inventor Dean Kamen and his company, DEKA Research and Development, for the development of advanced wheelchairs that will provide great ...

There's a guy in my neighborhood who has a kind of Segway wheelchair, a gyro-balanced two-wheeler with a seat. It can't do stairs (unless he has some Dalek jets I haven't yet seen), but it fits into a ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said it will work with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway human transporter, to develop advanced wheelchairs for disabled people and aging populations worldwide. The agreement ...