When Mike Spindle set out to design a new type of wheelchair he didn't play by the same old boring design rules, he made his own and the result was the excellent Trekinetic K2 all-terrain wheelchair. We've talked about the trekinetic before, and it made the #5 spot in our list of the best manual off-road wheelchairs, if you didn't already know, it looks pretty sweet too:
It's not even a concept so dont get too excited, but even though it's nothing more than a crazy photoshop dream, it's still gone straight to the top of our wheelchair wish list.
We like making things, lets face it even just having game of basketball in a wheelchair requires a special chair that'll probably cost thousands, so being able to make things at home that let us feed out inner desire to risk life and limb without going bankrupt is pretty cool.
The character evolved after it's creator John Lytle spent time as an assistant at an adaptive weight training class and obviously got to know some pretty badass dudes in wheelchairs.
This is a screenshot from Apple Mac's dictionary that has been going around the internet, seems that if users search the thesaurus for "observe" (like everyone does, routinely) the sentance used to show usage of the verb talks about a wheelchair dude waiting in a vestibule.
So you've just climbed Kilimanjaro, cycled around Alaska or even the whole of the USA and decide it's time for a well deserved drink, or six. Unless your drinking hole of choice is fancy enough to have waitress service (in which case we recommend finding a proper drinking hole, one with sawdust, spittoons and riot police on standby) it can be frustrating trying to make your way back from the bar with that serving of the golden nectar without getting a lap-full of beer.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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