Tag Archives: mobility

Wheelchairs, Handcycles and Mobility Impaired Are Off at the Boston Marathon Six mobility impaired racers, 30 in wheelchairs and 24 using hand-cycles will participate in the Boston Marathon on Monday, according to the Boston Athletic Association website. Selfie. Pre race jitters. All systems check for @jhboston26 tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ufgR3Teff9 — Ernst van Dyk (@ErnstvanDyk) April 21, […]

Seeking to expand its pool of user-testers, Google is making Google Glass, its camera-laden wearable computer, available to the general public for a single day. Previously, Glass was available only to select Explorers and those invited by the Explorers. The cost? A mere $1,500. Purchasing Glass will give buyers the chance to join a small but growing […]

MIT research scientist Matt Walter and Ph.D. candidate Sachi Hemachandra have built something that could revolutionize the way people with progressive neurological conditions get from place to place — it’s a robotic wheelchair that understands basic voice commands for navigating around a space. After building a map of its surroundings and being taught the location […]

Potential Liar: Online Dating Red Flags With more than 40 million men and women online looking for love, there are bound to be some scam artists out there. A “catfish” is a person who creates a false online identity in the hopes of luring people into romantic relationships. Nev Schulman starred in the 2010 documentary, Catfish, […]

1. Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare Boston has a high enough profile that it could reasonably be the target of a terrorist attack, and citizens and authorities are right to be cautious if they see a potential threat. Of course, Cartoon Network and its parent company, Turner Broadcasting, didn’t consider this fact when they launched a […]

Three Marines Stabbed During Dodgers vs Angels Game Three Marines were attacked and stabbed during a downtown Huntington Beach street fight. Police attempted to piece together the triggering event of violence between Dodgers and Angels baseball fans. Officers were called to handle a disupt on Sunday. As a result, six people were arrested for fighting over the […]

Puente Hills Fault Line Could Have Devastating Effects Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered […]

Three special needs students, in wheelchairs, have suffered minor injuries. After being hit by a car, the Central Texas school bus flipped on its roof. Officials with the Copperas Cove Independent School District say three children, an attendant and the bus driver were slightly hurt in Friday afternoon’s wreck. Emergency personnel had to cut specially […]

Kamryn Bentley isn’t one to let life get her down after being mugged by teens in Utah. Despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and mobile only with a wheelchair, she considers herself very independent. However, the adjustment to her new lifestyle hasn’t been easy, and she said it was recently made worse by teenage bullies […]

In North Carolina this past week, a boy was banned from carrying a My Little Pony bag because it was a trigger for his bullies to continue bullying him. In Arkansas, a story of a gay high school student was removed from a yearbook because the principal was concerned for his “well-being” if the story was published. These boys […]