If there’s one thing writing Gizmodo has taught me, it’s that nibbling cheese and noodling around websites for an hour doesn’t magically make any stories appear. This is a shortcoming of the internet, and of cheese.
Speaking of product shortcomings, when Dominic from IDFuel pointed out the new ‘Chunc’ wheelchair (it seems The Goonies might not have made such a splash in England) I was initially pretty excited about the concept. Designed (or at least financed) by a father who had become frustrated by the lack of nice, stylish wheelchair options for his daughter, the Chunc comes in a variety of custom colors and can be configured to ‘grow’ along with the user. The downside is, the Chunc doesn’t have a place for a disabled person to put their hands, because it isn’t designed for the self-motile. So while it looks like a well-designed piece of hardware—and it’s nice to have more stylish options for those who have to use them—I was really hoping these wheelchairs offered up a slightly more practical advantage over the (admittedly sub-par) tube-and-pleather versions, like easier curb-clearance or jetpacks or something.
Read – Daughter inspires funky wheelchair [BBC via IDFuel]
Read – Chunc Homepage [Chunc]
