Intel, Stephen Hawking showcase Connected Wheelchair Project From: Tech Times - 09/11/2014 By: Menchie Mendoza The wheelchair is created by Intel's Internet of Things department. It is part of the company's "Connected Wheelchair Project" under the Intel Collaborators program. The project showed how standard "things" can evolve into data-driven, connected machines with the help of the Intel Galileo Development Kit and Intel Gateway Solutions for the IoT. The announcement of the wheelchair at the Intel Developer Forum became even more significant when Dr. Stephen Hawking made a surprise appearance and joined in the discussion using a video. Hawking discussed how technology for the disabled is considered as a proving ground for tomorrow's technology. At that point, Hawking asked developers to come up with connected wheelchairs that would allow differently-abled people like himself to enhance the way they communicate with the rest of the world. Read the entire article at: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/15367/20140911/intel-stephen-hawking-showcase-connected-wheelchair-project.htm Links: Hawking gives thumbs up to Intel's connected wheelchair http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/intels-connected-wheelchair-program-gets-a-thumbs-up-from-stephen-hawking/1/382028.html It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (video 5:41) http://build.slashdot.org/story/14/10/08/1843223/its-an-internet-connected-wheelchair-video Submitted by Kevin Appert