Designed by same guy who designed foldable bike wheels A set of two foldable wheelchair wheels costs %24950 They fit in overheads of most planes The wheelchair is rolling into the 21st century with a ...

Izzy Wheels turns function to high fashion with wheelchair wheel covers. "If you can't stand up, stand out!" That's the motto of Izzy Wheels, a company founded by Ailbhe and Izzy Keane that sells a ...

Back in 2018, we heard about a full-size foldable wheel known as the Revolve. Its inventor, Andrea Mocellin, has now incorporated the technology into a wheelchair that folds down to fit inside an ...

It was in 2010 that we first heard about a set of ergonomic wheelchair wheels that let users move their chairs forward by pulling back on the handrims – ordinarily, of course, they would push forward ...

Design firm Vitamins worked years on the elusive folding wheel, but they couldn’t predict where it’d end up. We’ve all dreamed at least once about getting one of those neat folding bikes. The problem ...

This is not your average wheelchair. Researchers in South Korea have developed what they claim is a world first: a shapeshifting ‘morphing’ wheel. The technology shifts between rigid and soft states.

When the RoChair first appeared back in 2011, the wheelchair used an unorthodox center-mounted drive lever, operated with a rowing motion, to propel it forwards. Four years later the RoChair has been ...

While wheelchair design is advancing, allowing chairs to do things like move sideways and diagonally and follow the person next to them, stairs and curbs remain a formidable hurdle for all but a few ...

‘If you can’t stand up, stand out!’. As startup taglines go, the seven words chosen by Izzy Wheels carry a lot more meaning than most. The Irish company, founded by siblings Ailbhe and Isabel Keane, ...

Hot Wheels has partnered with Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham, a five-time Wheelchair Motocross World Champion and Paralympic athlete, to release its first remote-controlled wheelchair toy. The model ...

It’s one of the most stale idioms in the book: Don’t reinvent the wheel. But that didn’t stop Gilad Wolf, the Israeli inventor who found that comfortably getting around in a conventional wheelchair ...