Disabled under-fives get mobile (BBC)

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By Geoff Adams-Spink
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website

An electric mobility buggy for disabled children under five has just been launched by a UK charity.

The Wizzybug is on show at Naidex 2007 - the UK's biggest disability exhibition - at the NEC in Birmingham.

The device was designed by engineers at the Bath Institute for Medical Engineering, in consultation with parents and occupational therapists.

It has a top speed of two miles per hour, and can either be controlled by the child or by a parent or carer.

"We tried to get away from the 'wheelchair look' and make it more like a toy," design engineer Simon Halsey told the BBC News website.


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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6592075.stm

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1. Very Neat - Gonna make um for us big kids too? nt

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2. Closest approach may be the Tramper ?

It doesn't have the cute eyes, but you could paint some flames on the hood.



http://www.tramper.co.uk/outandabout.htm

If you're interested in a "manual", there's trekinetic



http://www.trekinetic.com/home.html


(PS: I bookmarked these because they looked interesting, not because I've used them myself, or claim to be an expert on such things. Just passing it on. Caveat emptor.)