Archive → November, 2009
Inventors Makes their Mark
Although the may not be as advanced as First World countries in science and technology, that doesn’t stop from coming up with their own inventions despite the lacks of funding and support. At the 2008 nationals Inventors week, a wheelchair that also functions as a bed, toilet, and bath chair in addition to being a means of transport for the elderly and persons with dissabilities. This multipurpose chair was one of the finalist for the award given by the technology applications and promotios institute of the department of science and technology.
The inventors came up the idea for this chair after his brothers suffered as stroke and was paralized seeing the difficulty in caring for his invalid brothers he though a multipurposed wheelchair would makes things for his brother ang his caregivers. Unfortunately the invention is still not commercially available; it was patented only in October 2008.