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Numotion Partners with NOW Technologies
DALLAS — Numotion has signed an agreement with NOW Technologies — also known as NOW Tech (www. NowTech.hu) — to become the first American distributor of its power wheelchair control systems.
The announcement was made during Numotion’s annual National Leadership Conference. As part of the agreement, Numotion’s clinical experts and ATPs will collaborate with NOW Tech on future product designs.
NOW Tech, based in Hungary, produces the Gyroset Glory and the Gyroset Vigo, systems that use Bluetooth technology and gyroscopes to create a proportional head control for power wheelchair driving and powered seating operation. The systems, which look like telephone headsets, can be adjusted according to a power wheel- chair user’s range of motion, strength and control.
Mike Swinford, Numotion’s CEO, said of the agreement, “This partnership has the potential to bring incredible change for people living with disabilities. We see a path to create major
leaps forward in how users interact with their power wheel- chair, as well as other tech- nology, which is long overdue. The control system technology on power wheelchairs hasn’t changed much in decades, despite all the tech advance- ments we’ve seen in almost every other part of our lives.”
NOW Tech’s system resembles a sleek phone headset.
NOW Tech devices essentially turn power wheelchair users into their own joysticks. By tilting their heads left, right, forward or backward while wearing the devices, users can drive and turn smoothly. The devices’ sensitivity levels can be adjusted so that users with less range of motion can still operate the systems efficiently. NOW Tech can also provide devices that enable power chair users to operate tilt and recline. m
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