Word: wheelchair
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What makes Gray special among relief workers is that he personally documents the delivery of the goods he collects, thereby assuring donors that their gifts are getting to the needy. Toting two cameras, Gray snaps pictures of aid recipients sitting in their new wheelchair or clutching their new Reeboks and sends them to the benefactors, sometimes from a laptop. "Nothing grabs givers like photos, receipts and other hard documentation," he explains. "Givers tend to remain generous when they really know their gifts are being received by the poor." That assurance has helped him build a stable of more than...
...about four years old. I was in my backyard playing with my neighbor’s dog. I saw my mother carrying John from behind, her arms wrapped around his waist, his legs dangling down toward the concrete driveway. My father followed with John’s wheelchair, begging her to calm down. But she kept yelling at John to walk, not to play dumb. Her face was red. Even then, I knew that John’s grunting could only mean he was frightened. My mother let go and John crashed face-first into the concrete. I don?...
...media circus began. A look through any media archive will reveal scores of articles between January 9th and mid-February just itching to know what Ginger is. And then Kamen, previously best known as the man who invented the $20,000 stair-climbing wheelchair, was no longer the press’s darling. But given the many stair-climbing wheel chairs we encounter so often on a daily basis, how could he fall out of the spotlight? What has become of Ginger...
...bought the book for HBSP, still refuses to comment, but according to a patent Kamen filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Ginger appears to be a scooter with a very advanced engine. What’s more, sources suggest that since Kamen’s stair-climbing wheelchair succeeded only through innovations in balancing technology, we can only imagine that Kamen’s scooter utilizes many of the same physics principles—making for a potentially compact, fast, easy-to-ride, non-polluting personal mobility vehicle...
...have a lot of respect for Dean Kamen,” he said, adding, “He’s a creative guy who thinks for himself. He’s got a good track record and from an engineering point of view, the electric wheelchair that walks by itself is just about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen...