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Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by aflag »

slx26 wrote: post #114
aflag wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe a ladder?

I thought the same as the comment you are replying to, because having your hands free is quite a big deal. I practice parkour, and have zero problems with ladders from a mobility perspective, but they are not practical because you can't carry things up and down easily. Also, what if someone else comes for a visit? They better be ready to climb!

You can bring things up with a backpack. But yeah, it's less convenient than stairs, it looks worse and it is less inviting. That's why people like stairs. I'm not sure if the advertised product is that much better, though. It seems extremely slow and clunky.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by robbmorganf »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #41

I can't watch the video since Vimeo is blocked in my country, so I searched YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whk2o98zlpc My questions (because the YouTube video doesn't show it): 1. What happens if the "chair" is at the opposite end? E.g. you're downstairs and want to go up but the "chair" is upstairs. 2. Is the step gap / velocity adjustable?

1. I think you call an able bodied relative?

2. Looks like it. I think it's just a racheting system, so I think there are infinite "lock points"

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by mgkimsal »

argsnd wrote: post #95
wyager wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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?

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by mgkimsal »

entropie wrote: post #18
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; }

Its so stupid to hide this and and inhibit people to understand what this is all about.

Given that the video and product are about an assistive technology, even moreso.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by bkanber »

zhte415 wrote: post #69

Looking for more information, I couldn't find any 'About' page on the website, came across this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZJvRWQW5k from 5 years ago. Same name and a Netherlands connection. SAme company? The website vertiwalk.com was registered in 2016, around the date of this video. Did this come to market? It certainly looks useful.

It looks like the same company, and that looks like the same person too

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by bborud »

Very, very interesting idea since this is probably easy to retrofit to houses that don't have room for elevators.

But I think the video does a poor job of marketing the product. Too much "storytelling", they spend too much time "laying pipe" and the payoff is marred by "artistic" shots where clarity would serve better.

And you can kind of understand how poorly the video is edited when the top comment is about the video not being scrub'able in that web page.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by orangeoxidation »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #41

I can't watch the video since Vimeo is blocked in my country, so I searched YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whk2o98zlpc My questions (because the YouTube video doesn't show it): 1. What happens if the "chair" is at the opposite end? E.g. you're downstairs and want to go up but the "chair" is upstairs. 2. Is the step gap / velocity adjustable?

No idea if they do it, but I imagine you could pull the whole thing up pretty easily, even easier with some type of winch.

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by geoduck14 »

codetrotter wrote: post #87
lifeformed wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's infuriating, I can't rewatch a part I missed or skip ahead? And there's no volume control? I can't believe designers still are removing critical functionality to make it "cleaner".

You can double tap the left side of the video to skip back 10 seconds at a time, and double tap the right side to skip forward

And if you "pinch to zoom", it adds extra content!

Re: Vertiwalk Vertical Walking

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Post by mightybyte »

This looks like a simple and elegant solution to a very real problem that affects lots of people's lives. But I can't help but think that in addition to the obvious upside of giving people a lot of autonomy, there's a significant downside here that should not be ignored. The flip side of making basic life activities easier is that if a person gets used to it, it can be pretty easy to slip into the complacency of relying on the device and actually never regain full normal function. I wonder if it would be feasible to augment that system with a leverage/resistance control that could be gradually changed. From my cursory look at the video it looks like there's some kind of mechanical leverage system in place (or at least there could be). Then a rehab schedule could start someone on, say, a 2x force multiplier and then gradually dial that back to 1x, and perhaps eventually I imagine this kind of graduated assistance/resistance feature would probably increase cost, complexity, and maintenance a meaningful amount. Question is, how much? Perhaps it might be worth it?
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