Hi everyone,
My name is Giovanni Bernabé and I'm a 24 years old master's student from Paris. I have a cerebral palsy that blocks me to have a complete mobility of my arms and my legs. Except this point, I'm totally autonomous on an electric wheelchair.
Regarding my "powerchair background" I bought a Phoenix, a A200 from Ottobock and a Storm 4 (4 poles engines) from Invacare. In spite of an utopian huge innovation revolution coming from current wheelchair companies, I now use a Storm 4 with brushless engines. I'm also a powerchair football player in first division in the team of Upsilon Châtenay Malabry.
Thanks to my studies, I had the opportunity to live one year in Madrid and four months in Brussels. But now I'm dealing with my master's research paper on wheelchair innovation.
My thesis has two goals. The first one is to find how we can accelerate wheelchair innovation. The second one is to find what are the barriers that prevents the inter-sectorial collaboration of the automotive industry and the wheelchair industry. This may sound unrealistic for some of you, but I deeply think that the wheelchair industry could benefit from the innovations and economies of scales made in the automotive industry.
Anyway, in order to complete my research, I have to gather qualitative data. So I have already interviewed people from Invacare, Sunrise Medical, Toyota and others; but I'd like to know if Brugerman would accept a 15 min Skype interview.
Brugerman, I saw on your website what you made and I want to tell you a big BRAVO! I think we can have a very good exchange on wheelchair innovation. The people that I have already interviewed told me for the majority that they can't use lithium batteries for safety reasons and other things that I don't really believe. An interview from you will give my very interesting data and could confirm my personal opinion on wheelchair innovation. Are you ok to do it?
Guys, do you know where I can buy Wizard on internet to change the default factory speed and acceleration settings made by Invacare ? I know that I can use a simple programer device, but I need Wizard to unleash the full potential of my powerchair.
Please excuse my frenglish and if there is spelling maniac in this forum, feel free to correct my spelling errors.
Giov.