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Amos Winter : Le fauteuil roulant tout-terrain et pas cher

Filmed Jun 2012 • Posted Nov 2012TEDxBoston 2012
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Comment construire un fauteuil roulant prêt à frayer son chemin dans la boue et le sable, à moins de 200 dollars ? Amos Winter, ingénieur au MIT, nous fait découvrir la mécanique d'un fauteuil roulant tout-terrain, pas cher et facile à construire - pour le rendre vraiment accessible - et nous donne quelques leçons qu'il a apprises en chemin.

Amos Winter and his team at MIT built the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a cheap lever-powered wheelchair whose design and develop put the user first. Full bio »

Translated into French by Simona Sanda-Mir
Reviewed by Elisabeth Buffard
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