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Multi-Function Wheelchair Doubles As a Toilet
Posted by Andi Wang at 1:30 PM on November 21, 2008
The Home Chare—yes, that's chare, not chair—is a combination wheelchair for the disabled and for Jabba the Hutts. This device not only can be adjusted into a bed and standing aid, but also can double as a toilet via a replaceable seatless cushion. We can't see how this toilet design is convenient though, unless, of course, you rode around in this wheelchair pantless or in a pair of asschaps. Since the Home Chare is currently not on the market, we hope this will give them time to fix the restroom-accessibility situation. [Product Page via Yanko]
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Steve
Posted November 22, 2008 4:30 PM
The restroom situation is not really broken at all. Think not only of the user of the chair, but the primary carer. This eliminates a large portion of the manual handling. Yes you still need to maneuver clothing, but you don't need to shift the user from the chair to the toilet, and then return them from the toilet to the chair. If you can eliminate large portions of the manual handling you improve the quality of life for all parties. Though given the suggestion of price, its not an elegant solution yet, as families with disabilities are the most financially stressed, as their disabilities cost them in medical bills, the primary carer often has to stop working, and they often have to pay for modifications to home and vehicles, so anything too far out of the ordinary price range is merely a nice theoretical device and not very practical at all. Thumbs up for thought though.
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 3:01 PM 21/11/08
@Substance_D: I should probably tell you about the bear you just awoke from hibernation and that you dislodged a log that was holding up some backfill, causing a minor landslide that blocked the only opening to the cave.
There's also that angry cave troll that feeds on the bones of Gizmodo commenters.
Way to fuck shit up in the cave.
OMG! Ponies!
purple-pillows
Posted 3:00 PM 21/11/08
i have never lounged out will pooping before... but that chair looks like its hard not to lounge... can you still poop while lounging?
purple-pillows
bookishboy
Posted 2:59 PM 21/11/08
This looks great, even for the non-handicapped market. I hate having to get up from the TV just to move my bowels, particularly when I'm watching "Ow my balls".
bookishboy
Substance_D
Posted 2:57 PM 21/11/08
@Substance_D: That was supposed to be a reply to my above message... Goddamn I hate commenting, I'm just going to move into a cave where I can't fuck shit up. :D
Substance_D
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 2:56 PM 21/11/08
@Substance_D: Let's do it like the Spartans.
Let's take our male kids and put them in boarding school at age 7 and assign a teenage boy to sodomize them on a regular basis. We'll also underfeed them and instill violent xenophobia in them. Then, when they grow up, we'll conscript them into the army and only let them visit their wives once a year for sex. The rest of the time - nonstop buggery.
OMG! Ponies!
Substance_D
Posted 2:56 PM 21/11/08
Haha, nah. It was me being angry at the time, and spewing things no one really needed to hear. I sortof wish I could erase my post but alas-no edit button...This too shall pass.
Substance_D
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 2:49 PM 21/11/08
@Substance_D: So is this the new annotated guide to Gizmodo comments I've heard so much about?
92BuickLeSabre
Substance_D
Posted 2:40 PM 21/11/08
What a gross chair...Let's do it like the Spartans: everyone useless gets 'taken care of'. (Cue the annoying gizmodo commenters that will say I'm being ignorant when I'm really not being serious at all, but they like to feel like they care about people so they'll still try to make me feel bad. These are the same poeple that say any sort of medical gadget is ~AMAZING~.)
Substance_D
Lizard_King
Posted 2:36 PM 21/11/08
As someone who occasionally works on wheelchairs, I can safely say this is NOT the first wheelchair to be also used as a toilet.
Lizard_King
BeautifulAgony
Posted 3:15 PM 21/11/08
Having worked in the hospice industry, I can tell you that there are numerous elderly, disabled and otherwise wheelchair-bound patients who cold benefit greatly from this type of device.
Many of the above-mentioned types of patients routinely wear hospital-style "johnnies" or light cotton pajamas that can be easily lowered. Many of these patients have tremendous difficulty transitioning themselves to a toilet or commode, and as a result can suffer from frequent accidents.
While many of you might find the Home Chare concept disgusting or laughable, there are numerous peoiple for whom it would represent a major quality of life improvement. With simeple chemicals such as those used in portapotties and RV toilets, it would be almost entirely odor-free, and no doubt a self-sealing lid could, or would, be part of the design.
BeautifulAgony
danjuan
Posted 3:11 PM 21/11/08
This is perfect for World of Warcraft player(s).
danjuan
jiveabillion
Posted 3:42 PM 21/11/08
Looks like somebody opened The international space stations mail...
jiveabillion
Incognito
Posted 3:32 PM 21/11/08
@Incognito: *more
Incognito
Incognito
Posted 3:32 PM 21/11/08
This is totally useful for BBQ and Beer night, no moew 'I'm too lazy to get to the toilet' bladder infections and I can give those Asian food eating competitors a run for their money.
Incognito
Incognito
Posted 4:00 PM 21/11/08
@purple-pillows: I'm here to tell you, yes, that is possible. Hence, my entire collection of the bathroom reader and the spare laptop standing by.
Incognito
Incognito
Posted 3:48 PM 21/11/08
@OMG! Ponies!: Well, you know, it's not the Spartans, but as Judge Hatchett says 'Even Gangus Cuuuuuuuong is fun on the first date'.
Incognito
bosskev
Posted 4:20 PM 21/11/08
@BeautifulAgony: Thanks for saying so.
And, like it or not, someday it could be any of us for whom a chair like this, odd/funny though it seems now, could offer a bit of help to us.
bosskev
bosskev
Posted 4:14 PM 21/11/08
@Substance_D: "This too shall pass."
Fortunately, with this chair, that becomes convenient.
bosskev
tastypotato
Posted 4:07 PM 21/11/08
@danjuan:
MOOOOOOM! BATHROOM!
tastypotato
purple-pillows
Posted 5:22 PM 21/11/08
@Incognito: i left that comment while in the bathroom... but i dont lean back on the tank
purple-pillows
BigDogues
Posted 12:40 AM 22/11/08
Let's just hope this is some kind of door that closes off the port when the chare is not in commode mode. An accidental "greasing" of the stairs could be very dangerous.
BigDogues
b-radicate
Posted 1:16 AM 22/11/08
@bosskev: Or it could be Professor X.
b-radicate
robinandtami
Posted 2:56 AM 22/11/08
@Lizard_King: But if you notice. the chair is not being used as a toilet. It just has an access panel so that you can back the chair itself up over a real toilet. I work on wheelchairs daily myself and have not seen one like this. Plus it goes from a completely flat position to a standing up position and can be used with a stair lift. Pretty ingenious stuff really.
robinandtami
robinandtami
Posted 3:17 AM 22/11/08
@BeautifulAgony: Actually, you wouldn't need the chemicals. The toilet is not part of the chair. The chair is made to back over a conventional toilet.
robinandtami
robinandtami
Posted 3:06 AM 22/11/08
@Substance_D: Just this morning I was asking myself "Would this comment be acceptable to Substance D" Then I decided I really didn't give a fuck.
robinandtami
m-p{3}
Posted 5:38 AM 22/11/08
I wouldn't be happy to be beside an handicaped person in the bus who is currently taking a dump. On top of being pantless, imagine the odour..
m-p{3}
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 12:37 PM 22/11/08
Does Woz know about this?
BiZarRroBALlmeR
FiveLiters
Posted 3:20 AM 23/11/08
@purple-pillows: You probably could,but would you wat to ruin decades of toilet-traning by doing that? Just imagine...you're over a friend's house watching the game in a La-Z-Boy (how appropriate!),and the urge hits. You think,"ahh,I'll just let 'er fly,-I- don't need to get up anymore!"
Calamity ensues.
FiveLiters