{"id":226,"date":"2015-05-11T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/amanda-gelb\/"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:17:56","slug":"amanda-gelb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/amanda-gelb\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheels Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Amanda Gelb<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Wheels Up is a tool that enables those in wheelchairs to climb a curb or a few steps. It utilizes new applications of material and mechanism.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Restaurants.<br \/>\nBars.<br \/>\nCurbs without a curb cut.<br \/>\nPesky elevator apartment buildings with 3 shallow stairs before the entrance.<br \/>\nHow can persons who use wheelchairs go up a few stairs autonomously? <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve built a tool that will enable powerchairs to ascend one step and manual wheelchairs to ascend a few steps. Without assistance. Designed hand-in-hand with the input of 100 wheelchair users. <\/p>\n<p>Device Features: lightweight, portable, low-cost, minimal time to set up, adheres easily to the chair with minimal footprint.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Thesis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Gelb Wheels Up is a tool that enables those in wheelchairs to climb a curb or a few steps. It utilizes new applications of material and mechanism. Description Restaurants. Bars. Curbs without a curb cut. Pesky elevator apartment buildings with 3 shallow stairs before the entrance. How can persons who use wheelchairs go up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/amanda-gelb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wheels Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10301,12516,462,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amanda-gelb","category-kathleen-wilson","category-projects","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}