How to quickly and conveniently find your car among the hundreds and even thousands ones? The camera-based ‘Find Your Car’ system installed in Santa Monica Place may help you quite much. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The elderly would find climbing stairs a much easier work with the aid of Companion Bird Hand Grip. It is a cute gadget that offers an ergonomic grip. The yellow “bird” is designed to hook onto the rails of a staircase, and keep “flying” upward to help the users go upstairs more securely and easily. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Wanna to achieve a better performance in swimming? You need to have a look at the Swimming Back Board. It is a plastic gadget worn around your waist to make sure that your back keeps straight all the time. After obtaining a proper position in water, you’ll find it much easier to speed up while swimming. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Thanks to Rex Exoskeleton and the bionic legs, those who have been leg-impaired can stand up again and walk as easily as normal people. More importantly, the Rex Bionic Legs allow the users to self transfer themselves in and out without any external help. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Neptune is a functional prosthetic leg designed to help the disabled people swim as well as normal person by using an adjustable fin that feature a 360° movement. The fin is attached to the mounted cup that comes along with the standard silicone liner and its strength can be adjusted by a slider. The prosthetic legs can be suited in 3 most usual types of amputations, ensuring almost every disabled people an efficient swimming. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Finally there’s a simple but practical item allowing the elderly and those with disabilities to sit up in bed all by themselves. It’s the Bed Ladder, something that goes horizontally across the bed, for the elderly and other people to use whenever they’d like to get up. Though sounds weird and useless to some people, the product is especially helpful to those aged men living alone. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Surinate Bladder Management System, a medical device that is designed for men who suffer from urinary retention (an inability to empty the bladder), has gotten an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval recently and will be experimented in the United States soon. The Surinate system features a device that could be inserted into the urethra, not only bridging the bladder neck, prostrate and external sphincter, but providing a valved connection between the bladder and the bulbous urethra in the meantime. Remotely controlled by a magnet, the valve could be easily activated and adjusted. When the user wants to empty the bladder, he only needs to move the hand-held switching magnet closer to the check valve magnet, which will then be drawn away from the valve seat to let the urine flow out. According to the company, “the Surinate valved catheter is designed to remain in the patient for up to 30 days.”
Coming from Primpo Co., Ltd, the “Isonic” cane works more like the visually impaired people’s new eyes, rather than merely a conventional stick, due to its powerful detection function and the capability to ‘read’ colors. It will be showcased at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair held from April 13 to 16, as part of a project to assist Korean firms in their overseas marketing activities. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The ExiTool concept has been designed as an essential safety gadget for car drivers, and the users will find it especially practical when they have to break the seat belts and get out of the car quickly. The emergency tool comes with a seat belt cutter, a tungsten carbide window breaker and a LED flashlight. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Whenever asked what road humps are designed for, we will refer to its important functions in reducing traffic accidents by requiring the drivers to slow down. But how do they work in the night? I mean, there’s only dim light on the road and the drivers couldn’t always notice the road humps from far away, and as a result these speed breakers won’t work that effective as we’ve expected.
Fortunately some designers have thought of that question earlier and they’ve teamed up with the ‘Self-powered Safe Hump’ which is equipped with LED bulbs and therefore gives off light in the dark. Moreover, all the energy needed by the system is converted from the mechanical energy generated when the car passes by. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Finding last available spaces in car park is a tough work and so you need a guider. This parking guider is an electrical device which can display the parking information and guide the driver to an available space with a virtual arrow. This guider can offer such information as parking space number, car park entry time and parking fee as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Using Debit and Credit Card for shopping is very common for us normal people, but the blind won’t enjoy this convenience since debit/credit card machines are all digital. This visual assistant card is actually a touchpad with Braille, which is corresponding with the digital touch screen, printed on it. So the blind can also finish the check out process by themselves. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The new model OPEL vauxhall insignia cars releasing next year will feature a new safe system. The new system comes with a eye camera. Unlike most of the existed lane departure warning system, this camera can also recognize signs as far as 100 meters.
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If you have any problem to walk, I mean maybe your leg muscles are a little bit weakened, and then you might need an assistant device like this.
This is a new device which comes with flat brushless motors and a control system developed by Honda. Therefore, a small device like this will give you extra supporting while walking. [Read the rest of this entry...]
In order to decrease accident, Ford unveiled a new series of monitoring system which allows you to take care of the blind spot.
The first one can tell you whether there is a car at the blind spot by a red light on the rearview mirror and the second one features an extra convex part to attain the same object.
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