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I once suggested a similar project at our company. One of our products is labelled in braille. For technical reasons it was the easiest way to drill holes in the front plate and stick a transparent plastic insert through from the back.
My suggestion was to add a few blue LEDs behind it to light up those braille dots. It would have been meaningless for the intended user - but it would have looked way cool!
I often think of this sign I saw at a small children's playground with braille on it hung 6 feet in the air with no way to reach it. 
I think of the sign that says "hot surface do not touch" with accompanying braille.
Yep. That one was made by a guy who made all kinds of warning plates for their plant, and legal & corporate requirements were that every sign has to have braille on it. I don't think the department requesting that sign from their sign-making-department had this on their screens...
There's also no way for someone who needs Braille to actually DO the "puzzle". The other words don't have Braille, the map appears to be flat. Terrible design.
Nah the black parts of the sign are recessed. You can see from the lighting.
Still, there should be Braille for the text too.
Surely they could have made that a little more challenging than having a straight line?
Maybe the builder just mounted the panel the wrong way? It serves as a wall for the platform behind it.
There's a different printing on the other side too.
I'd like to think of that as supplementary design.
They exist, but the pedals are higher, for your arms! I used to work with a guy who did this: every day at lunchtime he’d go zooming around the parking lot getting a good workout in
https://bike-on.com/product-category/shop-handcycles/attachable-handcycles/
I'm an able-bodied handcyclist. Not a wheelchair attachment, but a dedicated handcycle. I've been riding one for over 20 years now. I alternate riding it and riding a leg-powered bicycle. Cycling and hiking are the only exercises I will religiously stick to. I realized that my upper body was being neglected and gave a handcycle a shot.
They are super fun and a great workout. I prefer my handcycle rides tremendously over my to eg-poweted bicycle rides (but I can't skip leg day). I highly recommend trying out a handcycle to anybody who thinks they may be interested.
If you're in the Los Angeles area, and are interested in trying one out, message me. I love introducing folks to handcycles and live down the block from a bike path. I even have a couple for sale that I'd let go at a very reasonable price if anyone wants one. I just don't want to ship them.
I’m definitely curious, but opposite coast
This better not be like the last time someone on the Internet invited me to come visit them in a strange city if I was curious about trying hand stuff.
Lol!
took scrolling to this comment before I understood OPs joke.
It took me longer then i want to admit to realise why this is a bad idea
Gotta have a 100 bad ideas before you discover a good one.
Like what if you added hand pedals?
Like what if you added hand pedals?
You'd be late, already exists.
I mean, there are people who need a wheelchair but are still able to use this.
I have this meme in my roll and I've been scared to post it lmao
Worried about people's reaction?
I frequently save memes in my ever-growing folder, then skip them at the last moment because I worry the audience here might think it's over the line. This one seems to have landed though.
They is surely people whose handicap allow to use their legs but not to stand up. Come to think of it, I know some people who are this way.
Even assuming use of your legs, you can't steer this
It's a project. It might not be finished yet.
Honestly, this might be good for use as a therapy device for people that perhaps have weak arms and legs and perhaps cannot stand up. Dividing the work required in this way has some merit to at least be studied or researched, if it hasn't already.
I was like: wow this is actually genious... oh.
Recumbent bikes are a thing. That is basically this
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You need to cover the chain for safety during operation.
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You need foot straps and side leg protectors/support.
Could this possibly exercise leg and foot muscles of people with no lower mobility due to spinal/nerve injuries?
To qualify for a wheelchair under American insurance, you have to be unsafe to use a walker or cane for mobility, be primarily wheelchair bound (need person to help transfer you or have enough upper body to transfer yourself), etc. Most patients I think of that I discharge with a wheelchair would not be able to use this device...
For those that can use something like this, there are so many micro mobility things out there. As someone pointed out recumbent bicycles already exist.
Wall-E?