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Amos Winter: A cadeira de rodas barata para todos os terrenos

Filmed Jun 2012 • Posted Nov 2012TEDxBoston 2012
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Como se constrói uma cadeira de rodas para andar na lama e na areia por menos de 200 dólares? O Engenheiro do MIT Amos Winter nos leva pela mecânica da cadeira de rodas para todos os terrenos, que é barata e fácil de construir -- para a verdadeira acessibilidade -- e nos dá algumas lições que ele aprendeu ao longo do caminho.

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 Portuguese, Brazilian by Rafael Portezan
Reviewed by Gislene Kucker Arantes
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