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by Alfred Poor | November 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
One of the most important aspects of independent living is mobility: the freedom to go where you want, when you want. Paraplegics and others with physical disabilities may be confined to wheelchairs, but not everyone has the strength and dexterity require to power a...
by Alfred Poor | January 28, 2016 | General News, Health
As the illustration above from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), car crashes take an enormous toll in this country each year. More than 37,000 people die each year from car crashes, with another 2.3 million suffering injuries. By any measure, this...
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by Alfred Poor | August 12, 2015 | Health
It’s the stuff of new parent nightmares; you lock your car in the shopping mall parking lot and walk off, leaving your infant strapped into a baby seat in the back of your car. In the summer, this could even be a life-threatening situation. Fortunately, Walmart...
by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2015 | Medical
According to a report in the Financial Times (subscription required), Ford has given up on the development of a smart car seat that can detect a driver’s irregular heart rhythms. The idea is that the car could tell if the driver was incapacitated due to a heart...
