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A Retrofittable, Deployable Rain Canopy for Mobility Scooters
The Scooterpac, by industrial design consultancy Nyker Design
New York is not a wheelchair-friendly city, and I found them a rare sight when I lived there. But out here in the country, mobility scooters are so common that I see them being used every time I go to the supermarket.
One thing I've never seen is a wheelchair or mobility scooter with integrated rain protection. British industrial design consultancy Nyker Design has tackled this, at least for mobility scooters, with their Scooterpac folding canopy:
"We aimed to offer a bolt-on solution which can be deployed when needed. This was achieved through a novel multi-stage folding mechanism that can be fixed to any mobility scooter."
Here's how you deploy it:
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I can't decide if there is a super subtle tounge-in-cheek hint of irony in the Home-Shopping Network style video, but it made a half-Brit like me chuckle. I get it is a compact-ish, convenient-ish solution, but operation seems only possible by a user with good / normal mobility - so not a typical mobility scooter user. Surely a roofed mobility scooter would be prefered if you live in a gloomy grey rainy country like the UK (that IS a poke at my old freinds in the UK). Denmark is similarly grey and gloomy most of the year so I see more and more roofed mobilty scooters and trikes here. It seems this product has good intentions but does miss the mark in it's complexity. I think any user who buys this would probably leave it up rather than collapsed most of the time IMO.
That would fit in nicely if ever I build the bicycle light enough to carry up three flights of stairs based upon the form factor of a folding wheelchair I've been thinking about for a decade or two. Feel free to take this idea and run with it, if it appeals to you. Just let me know so I can be a beta tester.