No, you don't.  I sent that through UW's webmail, which had supposedly
fixed it's problem with causing MIME encryption.  Apparently not.  What
the message said, in a nutshell, was that Independence Technologies, the
division of Johnson & Johnson that markets the I-Bot, also markets a
manual wheelchair that uses a type of gearing to achieve mechanical
advantage.

Here's a link to it.  It hit the market about the time I was looking at
going to a power chair, so I checked it out.  Unfortunately, it requires
the ability to use both arms approximately equally, so it wouldn't work
for me.

http://www.independencenow-europe.com/uk/iglide/see_iglide.html
 

Kendall Corbett

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

-----Original Message-----
From: Trisha Cummings [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question re: Manual Chair Power Assists

Do I need to turn something on or off to read these.

                Trisha

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Kendall David Corbett
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Question re: Manual Chair Power Assists


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