terça-feira, 25 de outubro de 2016

Engineering reverse innovation | Amos Winter & Tish Scolnik | TEDxBoston







Publicado em 5 de nov de 2014
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair designed for developing countries was a winner of a 2010 R&D 100 award, and was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s top innovations in 2011.

Amos Winter is the Director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT, which focuses on the marriage of mechanical design theory and user-centered product design to create simple, elegant technological solutions for use in highly constrained environments.

Tish Scolnik is the CEO and co-founder of GRIT, a social enterprise that created the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), an all-terrain wheelchair for developing countries.

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Wheelchairs That Work Anywhere





Publicado em 18 de nov de 2015
http://umc.org/videos
For 20 years, an invention created by three United Methodist men has been changing lives. As of 2015, 50,000 disabled persons in 100 countries have received a device called a PET. Personal Energy Transport (PET) vehicles are all-terrain wheelchairs, designed for dirt roads and rugged places in developing countries. They require no motors or electricity. The mobility offered by PETs can bring people crippled by polio, land mines, or birth defects out into the world where they can provide for their families. The PET Mobility Project relies on donations and the work of dedicated United Methodist volunteers who meet weekly to build PETs to be shipped all over the world. “You can go and spend a couple of hours and go home and feel like you did something really productive for somebody you’ll never meet, who you’ve made a life-changing event for,” says PET volunteer, Roger Hofmeister.

This channel is managed by United Methodist Communications in Nashville, TN. Contact FWalsh@UMCom.org for more info.

SafariSeat - All terrain Wheelchair Designed for People in Developing Countries

SafariSeat. (2016-10-19). SafariSeat - All terrain Wheelchair Designed for People in Developing Countries. Retrieved 2016-10-25, from http://www.disabled-world.com/assistivedevices/mobility/wheelchairs/allterrain/uji.php Direct Link: SafariSeat - All terrain Wheelchair Designed for People in Developing Countries - SafariSeat is a low cost and open-source all terrain wheelchair that can be made in local workshops with bicycle parts designed for people in developing countries - SafariSeat