Ever met someone in a wheelchair and shaken their hand and it feels like you just put your hand into a vice? They wheel around in those things all day long just building more muscle into every part of their arms. It's truly amazing, but may someday be rare, for a Japanese company has developed a device that can be hooked onto regular wheelchairs to make them motorized called the WHILL. Personally, I believe it's an attempt to weaken the superhumans that currently reside in the manual wheelchairs. Maybe the executives of this company were tired of having their hands crushed and feeling so inferior. It is possible they may have just been trying to give handicapped individuals (who can't afford motorized chairs or lack the upper mobility for manual chairs) a way to get around better and cheaper. We may never know the truth of why they did this. The worst news of all is really that we Architects may someday have to widen the wheelchair spaces and turning radii in our designs. Thanks Japanese company for the carpel tunnel. Thanks a lot.
http://whill.jp/
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