Superawesome products to increase diversity

Skiriki

Inspired by today's DAZ theme in sales department (diversity), I figured that perhaps putting together a thread with ideas that might not have occurred to people otherwise should be brought up.

We got lots of supercool cybernetics and whatnot in store, but some of the Real Life aids to live a life with disabilities are sort of missing.

There's a wheelchair in store, but that's a transport wheelchair. Perhaps some cool PA could take a peek at this article and give us more of various sorts? Would it sell? Well, we do have disabled superheroes, like Professor Xavier and Barbara Gordon, and people like to do 3D renders of them. What about a wheelchair... with add-on mods for MOWING DOWN ZOMBIES?

Hearing aids? (Again with superheroes -- Hawkeye in 616/main comics continuity.) None of us are getting any younger, and loss of hearing is one of those old-age things. Yes, I know there's a cool freebie one, but an expanded selection of various human tools to live with disabilities would be nice.

Heck, we don't even have dentures! And that'd be easy enough (I'm guessing!) to make as a bit of geografting thing for gums (hiding away the rest of the body), so people could use existing morphs for teeth.

nelsonsmith

Some futuristic variations on wheelchairs would be great, as well as some steampunk versions.

Lots more prosthetics would definitely spur the imagination I'm sure.

fixmypcmike

Don't know if anyone else would want it, but I have need of a medieval-tech wheelchair.

Daywalker Designs

Wasn't the original wheelchair that Professor X was in your basic model? The hoverchair he had later on was a gift from Empress Lilandra of the Shi'ar, as I recall.

Skiriki

daywalker03 said:

Wasn't the original wheelchair that Professor X was in your basic model? The hoverchair he had later on was a gift from Empress Lilandra of the Shi'ar, as I recall.

Yes, but, if you read the article I linked, you'll find out why that transport model of wheelchair is hardly suitable for modern-day portrayals of Professor X and reinforces harmful stereotypes of wheelchair users and their actual capabilities of mobility. Hoverchair by Lilandra is a diff story (since it is fantasy device), albeit cool one.

Richard Haseltine

Fixmypcmike said:

Don't know if anyone else would want it, but I have need of a medieval-tech wheelchair.

In books that tends to be some kind of carrying chair rather than a wheeled item. Not sure how much research thta is based on but certainly litters and chairs with poles were used.

Daywalker Designs

Skiriki said:

daywalker03 said:

Wasn't the original wheelchair that Professor X was in your basic model? The hoverchair he had later on was a gift from Empress Lilandra of the Shi'ar, as I recall.

Yes, but, if you read the article I linked, you'll find out why that transport model of wheelchair is hardly suitable for modern-day portrayals of Professor X and reinforces harmful stereotypes of wheelchair users and their actual capabilities of mobility. Hoverchair by Lilandra is a diff story (since it is fantasy device), albeit cool one.

I did read it just now, and I agree that if you want to depict a more mobile wheelchair bound individual, we do need more options.

fixmypcmike

Richard Haseltine said:

Fixmypcmike said:

Don't know if anyone else would want it, but I have need of a medieval-tech wheelchair.

In books that tends to be some kind of carrying chair rather than a wheeled item. Not sure how much research thta is based on but certainly litters and chairs with poles were used.

Yes, in this case the character's personality, skills, and resources make him the sort who would invent such a device.