For millions of people with disabilities in the world, there is more useful than a watch power ranger: a wheelchair connected. While Apple mobilized the attention of the media to sell its new high-tech toy, Intel presented a general indifference called Connected Wheelchair “can transform a standard wheelchair in a machine connected technology solution driven datas “.
This revolutionary chair with Intel Inside knows how to direct himself and find places handicap accessible. It also analyzes real-time medical constants of the user and may transmit it to a doctor in an emergency. Its beta tester is none other than Stephen Hawking. Suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease, the famous physicist, whose life will be the subject of the biopic The Theory of Everything, is working with Intel for over ten years on technological solutions to disability. And he was excited by this machine will “considerably assist the disabled in their everyday life” .
For the specialist black holes and gravity quantum technology has become the most powerful weapon to help patients with a degenerative disease like hers: “Medicine can not cure me, so I’ll leave it to technology. Technology allows me to interact with the world, it allows me to move and it is thanks to her that I can tell you right now. It just allows me to live “ says soberly Stephen Hawking in the video posted by Intel.
The famous” Ice bucked challenge “launched to fund ALS research has already helped raise $ 100 million in the United States. A few more buckets of ice water on the head of celebrities and these funds will maybe tomorrow to be fitted with a chair connected people who need it.
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