This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair designed for developing countries was a winner of a 2010 R&D 100 award, and was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s top innovations in 2011.
Amos Winter is the Director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT, which focuses on the marriage of mechanical design theory and user-centered product design to create simple, elegant technological solutions for use in highly constrained environments.
Tish Scolnik is the CEO and co-founder of GRIT, a social enterprise that created the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), an all-terrain wheelchair for developing countries.
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