Houses are becoming more intelligent. Just like watches, phones and many other everyday devices, modern homes will one day be able to automate processes that are inconvenient or impossible for people with disabilities. Just like how wheelchair vans have offered freedom and independence to wheelchair users, smart devices will one day offer the same independence when Read more…
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Month: November 2016
Three Reasons Why Wheelchair Vans Make Perfect Gifts
This holiday season, why not bring the gifts of mobility, independence and ease of access to a special person in your life. If you know someone who use a wheelchair, but doesn’t have a wheelchair van, this is the year to give them a gift that they will remember! Here are just a few Read more…
A Special Thanks This Holiday Season
On the eve of Thanksgiving, we here at Rollx Vans just want to take a moment to thank our customers, our employees and all the organizations we have partnered with since our founder, Wade Harris started this business alongside his wife, Nancy. For more than 30 years, we have worked hard to provide wheelchair Read more…
Virtual Reality to Assist Head Transplant Patient
One of the world’s first head transplant patients will receive a lot of help from a specially-coded virtual reality program before he undergoes his first surgery, which doesn’t have a set date at this time. Valery Spiridonov, a Russian man in his 30s suffers from a very rare condition called Werdnig-Hoffman, a type of spinal Read more…
New Geared Wheelchair Device Works Just Like a Bicycle
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) professor has created a geared wheelchair system that introduces a new “low gear,” similar to what you would see on a bicycle. Associate professor Brooke Slavens created the system in order to make getting around in a wheelchair easier and less painful for long-term users. How the System Works Read more…
Need a Wheelchair Van? Buy Direct From the Manufacturer
At Rollx Vans, we don’t just sell wheelchair vehicles, we make them. As a manufacturer, that put us in a unique position to help our customers get exactly what they want and need from their wheelchair van purchase. No matter what our customers need in their accessible vehicles, our team can make it happen. Read more…
Wifi Enables Monkey with Paralysis to Walk Again
Today’s latest scientific discovery comes from a group of Swiss scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, who successfully created a connection between a group of monkeys’ brains and their hind limbs, which they have been unable to move due to paralysis. This connection was made using something rather familiar to most people Read more…
Are We Focusing Too Much on Prosthetic Research?
About one in 190 Americans currently lives with the loss of a limb, and this number has the potential to double by the year 2050. While there is a multitude of adaptive technology and devices available to everyday consumers – wheelchairs and accessible vans – prosthetic and robotic limbs have been on the rise Read more…
November Sales and Specials at Rollx Vans
This November, it’s Black Friday every day! All month long, we will be having specials offers on all used and new wheelchair van purchases. The November Rollx Vans Special Offers We are giving away a $100 Visa Cash Gift Card with every vehicle purchase this month. Whether you buy new or used vans, full-size or Read more…
Disability Rights Case Heads to the Supreme Court
On October 31st, while most people were out celebrating Halloween – getting treats and playing tricks – Ehlena Fry, a 12 year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy was taking her disability rights case to the highest court in the land. It’s not often that a case involving a person with disabilities makes it all the Read more…