April 30, 2019-Disabled people don’t need so many fancy new gadgets. We just need more ramps.

It feels like every few months, the media becomes infatuated with a new piece of flashy technology peddled to solve a purported disability-related problem.  This is how we get things like “signing gloves” that purport to translate American Sign Language (they do not), expensive portable GPS units for blind people, or high-concept decoder rings that allow blind people to read non-Braille texts. The most recent is a stair-climbing wheelchair, which actually isn’t a new concept. Read more