For the disabled or the infirm, there are a large number of expensive pieces of equipment to help you get around and live your day to day life. There's the wheelchair, the stair climber and the sick bed, all of which involve moving from one to the other. The Home Chare, however, combines all three, removing the need to be lifted from one apparatus to another.
In one form, the Home Chare is a wheelchair. But it can also be tilted back to become a sick bed very easily. And the entire seat can be hooked up to a stair climber, leaving the wheels below. It would make moving around a home much easier for someone who needed all of these items, but we'll have to wait and see if it ever becomes a real product and not just a concept design.
Christen Halter, via Yanko Design
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By dancesonsnow at 2:52 PM ON 11/20/08
Ok, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds like the wheels have to stay at the bottom of the stairs to use the stair climber. Ok, so what do you do when you get to the top of the stairs, and the wheels for your chair are still at the bottom? Do you just say "oh, so thats what the second floor looks like" and then go back down?
If they can find a way to make the wheels come with, then we might be getting somewhere.
Ill give the this, it is the first wheelchair that I've seen that actually has some style.
By Aeolius at 3:27 PM ON 11/20/08
I wish these would be the size of a standard power chair, when production begins: http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/tech/p_mobility/i-real/index.html
By jamesd1218 at 10:44 PM ON 11/20/08
Staying in one chair/bed all day every day without having to get up....bed sores anyone?
By CoolProducts at 3:02 PM ON 11/21/08
Hopefully a product like this could bring some much needed help to homes where there is a lacking of hands to help out.