原创 Awesome Steampunk Wheelchair IndieGoGo project

My chum Mark Dobrosielski, an embedded systems designer who works for a defence contractor (that's all I'm allowed to say), just sent me an email. Mark pointed me at a rather interesting design company called ModVic, which was founded by Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum and is located in Sharon, Massachusetts in the United States.

ModVic specialises repurposing salvaged items and blending them with contemporary gadgets, appliances, and objects to create beautiful spaces. In particular, they focus on Steampunk designs that uniquely infuse new technologies and modern conveniences with beautiful, original period architectural salvage items and antiques.

One of the items on the ModVic website that really caught my eye was their SteamAble Wheelchair Project on IndieGoGo.

The idea is to take a couple of functional wheelchairs and make them eye-catchingly awesome. One of the wheelchairs will go to Kyron—a 14-year-old boy with Muscular Dystrophy who inspired this project. The idea is that, by changing the focus of attention from Kyron to his Steampunk wheelchair, this will increase his confidence by allowing him to express his uniqueness and individuality through his assisted living device.

At the moment, these Steampunk Wheelchairs exist only as an artistic representation—by means of this IndieGoGo project, Bruce and Melanie are asking for everyone's help to make them real.

All I know is that when my friend Steve Pesto was brought low by ALS and was confined to a wheelchair—and when he and I went to the cinema to see the latest and greatest science fiction films—he would have loved to have had one of these chairs!