some people and for some applications they may be great but they also strike me as being somewhat of a normative fetish Bayerlein says Up and down stairs in a wheelchair A development from Switzerland inspires much greater enthusiasm with him Scewo is an all new con cept of an electric wheelchair that s planned to be deliv ered to its first customers before the year is out Scewo for one is able to operate on stairs which is definitely practical in non accessible environments But that s not even the main thing that thrills Christian Bayerlein about the Swiss vehicle Above all he s taken with its THE AUTHOR Journalist Christiane Link grew up in the German states of Rhineland Palatinate and Hesse before studying political sci ence at Hamburg University Today she lives in London and calls herself a geek She enjoys trying out new technologies and regards her wheelchair as an accessory As a child she had one of the first colored wheelchairs on the market that were sup plied that way by the manufacturer stylish design This wheelchair doesn t have any kind of medical look To me that s truly innovative The styl ing of the wheelchair he feels truly has to do with inclu sion because disabled people want to be cool too He d like to be able to identify with his wheelchair and that s simply the case with Scewo That s also why he could imagine that this wheelchair at some point in time would not just be used by disabled people but simply as a means of moving around by anyone who d rather sit than walk In the light of an increasingly older popula tion he feels that this would definitely be conceivable And in that case another invention for challenged peo ple would have morphed into a mainstream product for everyone Looks cool and is even able to climb stairs the Scewo wheelchair concept All the smarthome technology has its origins in the disability sector Christian Bayerlein h e r e a n d n o w 73

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