The $44.40, Developing-World Wheelchair
January 19th, 2006
Mechanical engineer Don Schoendorfer has come up with an idea to improve the lives of the mobility-impaired in the developing world. Staggering in their simplicity, he has sourced to China the packaging of wheelchairs made entirely of off-the-shelf consumer commodities, like lawn furniture.
His non-profit organization has the chairs packaged for on-site assembly in China. Total cost to make and deliver from China to end-user? US$44.40.
Read more about this awesome philanthropic effort:
Gizmo of the Week: the US$44.40 wheelchair [GizMag]
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1. Allan | January 25th, 2006 at 2:23 am
we saw your web blog and thought it was great.
i wanted to bring a special sliding door threshold product to your attention that you may feel free to write about.
Here is the site and a story about a boy in a wheelchair;
the site has only been live a few days and we are getting interest from all over.
thx for your consideration.
2. MisterTut | January 25th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Thanks for the comment. An interesting product, but you show much clearer photos of the “bad” ramps than of the EZ Over Threshold you are selling. I couldn’t get a clear idea of what exactly is different about it.
In future, we do ask that requests for product links be made via email, not by commenting on posts.
Thanks!
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