Brain waves steer wheelchair
Posted by Jason | Filed under News
Tokyo – Toyota Motor Corp says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analysing brain waves, it said [...]
Tags: electrically powered wheelchair, wheelchair
Cape of Storms – Rugby in the Rain
Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles
The recent spate of storms that hit Cape Town and the Western Cape have reaked havoc here, but in spite of all that, we still went on tour with guests in wheelchairs in rain, sun and to the rugby! At the rugby match – Emerging Springboks versus the British & Irish Lions, it rained it was [...]
Tags: accessible tours, British, Cape Town, day tours, disability, Flamingo Tours, Irish, Lions, Newlands rugby Museum, Newlands stadium, Pam Taylor, rugby, rugby museum, South Africa, Springboks, storms, weather, wheelchair, wheelchair rugby, wheelchairs
Flamingo Cares
Posted by Pam | Filed under Articles
From the Indaba News of May 2009 – Flamingo Tours is proud of its commitment to accommodate disabled travelers who have the fullest right to enjoy traveling. Owner Pam Taylor personalised their services around clients; specific needs, offering adapted vehicles to take wheelchairs with equipment approved by British Transport Board. Vehicles include midi coaches for [...]
Tags: accessible accommodation, adapted vehicles, custom tours, deaf, disability, Flamingo Tours, hearing impairments, Pam Taylor, private tours, sign language, signing, South Africa
Inclusive Tourism for All
Posted by Jason | Filed under Articles
Inclusive Tourism for ALL guests, not only those who have a disability, has been my idea of how I would like to work for some years now, but did not quite have the words – Inclusive – which is now the new watch word. I just had – tourism for all guests – which did [...]
Tags: custom tours, deaf, disability, hearing impairments, Pam Taylor, sign language, signing, South Africa, tour guide, tourism, trade show
