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Sharing what I’ve learned about accessibility, technology, and everyday independence.
Author: Esther Klang
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Sesame Enable
On Monday evening, May 8th, 2017, my will to live reignited when I discovered Sesame Enable while visiting their booth, which their US representative, Shai Eilat manned at a disability expo. Sesame Enable is a tracking software made by an Israeli company that was founded in 2007 by two extraordinary people: Giora Livne, a veteran…
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The day that I discovered Wandercraft’s Atalante X Exoskeleton
I’ll never forget the day I discovered Wandercraft’s Atalante X exoskeleton, a wearable walking system designed to assist in movement and walking. I remember reading about a French company producing a self-stabilizing exoskeleton a few years ago. It sounded futuristic, like something you see in an SCI-FI movie, so I just forced myself to forget…
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Reclaiming My World, Step by Step: An Emotional Odyssey with the Atalante X Exoskeleton
For 218 protracted days, a seemingly endless expanse of 5,232 hours, each further divisible into 313,920 seconds of fervent yearning, the anticipation had been a palpable entity. Then, Friday, May 3rd, dawned – a day indelibly etched in my memory, the culmination of a longing that had taken root on September 28th. It was the…