When Praise Dooms Disabilty-Related Inventions
From: Wheelchair Junkie
By: Mark Smith

What consumers find intriguing and what they typically buy often differ.
Nowhere does this statement prove truer than in the disability-related
marketplace, where product after product has been described by consumers as
"revolutionary," [or "innovative"] only to never be purchased by them,
ultimately causing the product to fall by the waste side. Then, consumers
with disabilities forget about that revolutionary product, and are on to
hyping the next "revolutionary" product, and the cycle goes on and on,
leaving products and inventors with failed products, propagated by what
ultimately amounted to empty promises from consumers with disabilities. How
and why does this dynamic consistently occur within the disability-related
marketplace?

Read the entire article at:
http://www.wheelchairjunkie.com/advisinginventors.html

Submitted by Theresa Defosse