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Bespoken survey: We want to hear your views!
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Blackwood Homes and Care Sponsor basketballscotland’s Wheelchair National Youth Academy for the 2024/25 Season
Blackwood Homes and Care will be sponsoring basketballscotland's Wheelchair National Youth Academy for the 2024/25 season. This exciting partnership marks…
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FEATHER UTI and Robotics Group Session
Involvement Opportunity!University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University will be hosting a robotics and UTI session at Robotarium, Tuesday 7th November 2023. Blackwood are a project collaborator in this project work. This is open to people who experience UTIs and any carers or staff who have…
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Blackwood Design Awards 2023-24 - Deadline Extension, 27th October 2023
The Blackwood Design Awards are open to anyone, who has produced a great idea that supports people with disabilities, regardless of their background or level of…
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Robotics + Care Mashup, 16th to 20th October 2023
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Training through the Pandemic - with Paralympic hopeful, Gary Smith
For Gary Smith, retiring from a career in wheelchair Basketball due to a long-term shoulder injury was not an easy decision. He had played wheelchair basketball for as long…
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Nothing is impossible!
When the first snowflake fell this year, it made me think about the amazing Amanda Lees (pictured right). To me, I see snow as something that makes it really difficult to get around in my wheelchair. To Amanda, snow is an opportunity to travel, meet with friends and hit the slopes! We asked her to…
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New brain-machine interface could offer control over wheelchairs
Georgia Tech researchers have created a new brain-machine interface (BMI) that uses a new class of nano-membrane electrode combined with flexible electronics and a new deep learning algorithm to help disabled people wirelessly control devices. The BMI could be used to control things like an…
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NAIDEX Info and Lioving With Spinal injury
I am very excited that the 2020 NAIDEX show will be better than ever. As always I will be talking at NAIDEX. I just published a post about disability dating on the NAIDEX Blog …
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Of wheelchairs and pricing – and a challenge to an open source hardware project
Anyone who either uses or has an interest in electric wheelchairs and the way the industry behind them works might be interested in the (warning: long) article I published at:…
