The Freedom Chair comes in two models, one designed for developing countries, which sells for $250, and another for the US market, which folds easily into the trunk of a car and retails for $3,000.

BOSTON (CBS) -- A wheelchair designed at MIT is being heralded as the "mountain bike of wheelchairs." It's called the Freedom Chair and is the creation of a group of former MIT students, made right ...

Promotion: the enduring popularity of Humanscale's iconic Freedom Chair is attributed to its radical design approach around ergonomics and comfort, according to its CEO Bob King. The global ergonomics ...

Being confined to a wheel chair makes it much more difficult for people that are paralyzed or can't walk for other reasons to get around. A new wheelchair product has debuted called the Freedom Chair ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Niels Diffrient’s Freedom chair. Launched by Humanscale, the Freedom chair revolutionized the seating industry as the first ever ...

On an early October morning when the air is as crisp as a just-picked apple, Nate Johnson rolls his power wheelchair down the ramp extending from his family’s minivan, gets a boost into a walker, and ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Dianne Vitkus' life changed in an instant last July. The 28-year-old surgical physician's assistant had just taken in a sunset on the roof of her apartment in New York state. She was ...

After spending most of January in East Africa testing his invention, MIT mechanical engineering doctoral candidate Amos Winter has unveiled the Leveraged Freedom Chair, which is something of a desk ...