Arielle Rausin, a junior in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, created wheelchair racing gloves in the Digital Making course with Dr. Vishal Sachdev.

Fourteen year old Myrijan Stoetzer’s blog provides a summary of her project to create an eye-controller for a wheelchair.

DesignworksUSA, the BMW-owned creative consultancy and the Official Mobility Partner of the United States Olympic Committee, used a 3D scan of US Paralympian Athlete Josh George on his chair and created 3D models, including the athlete in the procedure, that could fine tune the aerodynamics. The new redesign will help the athletes be more comfortable and enhance performance since it is lighter than aluminum and also provides greater torsional rigidity and stiffness.