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| Egyptian researcher Abdelrahman Omran designed a wheelchair for people with tetraplegia which operates by receiving users' brainwaves. Reuters |
An Egyptian researcher Abdelrahman Omran designed first electric
wheelchair for people with Tetraplegia, a condition when patients are unable to
move their upper or lower body or the people with other forms of paralysis.
This life-changing device is designed to help those who cannot use
their hands to operate conventional wheelchair joysticks. Instead, the
wheelchair will allow them to use their brainwaves to control it, willing it to
move at their command and giving them greater agency.
Omran speaking to Reuters said, “Many people do not have control
of their arms or legs, making them unable to control wheelchairs using a remote
or joystick attached to it. So, the idea behind this chair is to help those
with paralysis and make it easier for them to use electric wheelchairs without
the need of an assistance.”
Omran's project, which started in 2015, has been taken by the Arab
Organization for Industrialization to help develop and prepare the wheelchair
for mass production.
“Today we are almost ready to announce the end of the final
production phase of the chair. Now we will start mass production. We will also
start marketing. Hopefully it will cover many sectors here in Egypt, a very
large number will be in need of this chair. We will also do marketing for
export. Abdelrahman has great ambitions and ideas, and hopefully we will be
able to use his talent and capabilities to keep up with technological
advancements and implement them here,” said Ahmed Mohamed Ab, chairman of the electronics
factory, Arab Organization for Industrialization.
Source: Reuters
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