Wheel Chairs are continuing to improve in innovative ways. In the near future, scholars predict that wheel chairs could become mobile homes or offices for disabled people. One example of an innovative wheelchair is the iBot. The main problem of wheelchairs is that they can only travel flat, stable terrain. Steps are a nightmare for handicaps in wheelchairs. Fortunately, the iBot can easily climb stairs. The wheel-chair has three sets of wheels, two big, outer sets with one small, inner pair. The two large outer wheels can rotate and stack up on each other to let the handicap stand taller and move up stairs. The video below shows the way the iBot works on stairs.
Unfortunately, the iBot is not on sale for now because it was to expensive. However, I hope that innovative wheelchairs of the future will cost a reasonable price so that it can help a greater number of handicaps.
