Combat vet invents a wheelchair tank (Video)
Now here’s a story for MajorGeeks. It involves a combat veteran, Brad Soden and a wheelchair tank. Yeah.
Combat veteran Brad Soden, inspired by his wife's paralysis, has created a fleet of wheelchairs that are built more like tanks than traditional wheelchairs.
The Tankchair, customized for any weather Mother Nature has in store, is built off of a steel or aluminum frame and provides users -- predominantly people with limited mobility due to physical disabilities -- with confidence when exploring uneven terrain, according to the product's website.
The battery-powered Tankchair, which starts at $19,500 and is built to last 15-20 years, has come a long way since Soden's earliest creations. To the combat veteran, it took a tiring cycle of trial and error to get Tankchairs to where the model is today.
Sources, if you want more information:
TankChair.Com (Site was being hammered at the time this was posted)
Huffington Post
Business Insider
Business Week
For video: http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/combat_vet_invents_a_wheelchair_tank_(video).html
I'd like to see this bad boy go up stairs.
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