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Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by jaclaz »

BadCookie wrote: post #166
Borrible wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a stairlift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift Should be around five to ten thousand Dollar. Or you lease one for the rest of your life for about 50-100$ per month. You do the math. The electric stair climber wheelchairs are unlikely to be a competitor because of their price. But still some believe in them. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/scewo-wheelchair-can... https://www.scewo.com/en/ But than aga…

An average stairwell is not quite wide enough to accommodate a stairlift, so I don’t think it’s a great general solution. You also still have the issue of transferring in and out of the chair, which can be an issue for some people. I bought a house on the premise that I could install a chairlift if needed … and had to sell the house a few years later when it turned out that the stairwell really wasn’t wide enough for…

It depends on the stairlift model, there are very compact versions, the kind with two or three pipes as guide take some 15-20 cm of the width of the stairs, and usually (not always) the chair/seat (which is foldable) can be "diverted" laterally.

About the 80 cm space required by this Vertiwalk thingy, it is roughly what a mini-elevator would need.

There is a (specific) pneumatic mini-lift that is 75 cm diameter:

https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/

Of course this is not suited for a wheel chair, the passenger must be standing, you need 1,30/1,40 m to be wheelchair accessible.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by argsnd »

mgkimsal wrote: post #123
argsnd wrote: post #95

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Seriously! I didn't realise how much I used this feature because I've found myself missing it on my 2021 MBP multiple times :(

I had a 2016 MBP for a while and never noticed it once. Interesting how we all get set in particular set of usage patterns. I might have liked it more if I'd ever even noticed that. Maybe it wasn't something that was as exposed in 2016?

It's a Safari-only feature, so it's possible you never noticed it if you used Chrome

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by jnwatson »

stuartbman wrote: post #159

I can see the use of this for neurological disease, but far and away the most common reason for a stairlift is frailty (or sarcopenia, to be more precise) along with other musculoskeletal conditions like osteoarthritis. Generally in sarcopenia you lose much more quadriceps strength, such that you find it difficult to stand up out of a chair, which is precisely the motion of how this is propelled. I'd therefore find t…

I agree with you about the target customer group.

It looks like it would only take up a corner of a room though.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by ratsforhorses »

imiric wrote: post #28
twelvechairs wrote: post #10

Incredible to see such a new device in a space where there has been little real invention in 100 years (since the elevator/lift). I'm interested in the building code implications of this. I assume you can't replace a staircase with this due to fire egress requirements, and at the top you have to have some sort of complex gate (notably not shown in the video) to prevent people from falling off.

I don't see it as a replacement for stairs, it's too impractical for general use. The only use case seems to be for what their demo video shows, people with limited mobility.

It's also great for? Library, Mezzanine, Archive... stairs take up space, you might even use this for going down mines, wells...what other use cases?

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by ratsforhorses »

Cerium wrote: post #36
DanielVZ wrote: post #33

This reminds me a lot of a video of a retired man that uses his new free time moving large objects just by leveraging gravity. I can't find it right now but I think that there's a potential there for new ways movement just like the vertiwalk.

Perhaps you are thinking of Wally Wallington? A retired carpenter who produced some videos on moving Stonehenge sized blocks? https://web.archive.org/web/20160302003628/http://www.thefor...

Tangentially this made me think of a video I saw on the bbc about container sized houses that expand and build them selves using counter levers https://youtu.be/phJNZRr8Qoo

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by takk309 »

CRConrad wrote: post #178
takk309 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha! I though the same thing. I remember watching a video of an amputee ascending up El Cap using a similar set up only with lots of pull-ups! That and less of a Danish modern design aesthetic!

> Danish modern design aesthetic! Dutch.

Correct, I should really proof read my comments more closely.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by joshspankit »

wyager wrote: post #32
teraflop wrote: post #5

In case anyone else was irritated by the inability to scrub through the auto-playing video, adding this CSS rule in your browser's dev tools should fix it: .vp-progress { display: block !important; }

One actually useful function of the macbook touch bar is that it gives you an always-on scrubber.

Is that actually true for all videos?

Lots of sites that refuse to use standard video embedding, and my intuition says those would block the scrubber.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by stuartbman »

jnwatson wrote: post #185
stuartbman wrote: post #159

I can see the use of this for neurological disease, but far and away the most common reason for a stairlift is frailty (or sarcopenia, to be more precise) along with other musculoskeletal conditions like osteoarthritis. Generally in sarcopenia you lose much more quadriceps strength, such that you find it difficult to stand up out of a chair, which is precisely the motion of how this is propelled. I'd therefore find t…

I agree with you about the target customer group. It looks like it would only take up a corner of a room though.

Sure, but its the corner of two rooms on two floors. Depending on what your house looks like, that's quite an undertaking to fit, it's destructive to the house, and doesn't replace your need for stairs.
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