Dream-Racer Helps Disabled Children To Enjoy Toying With a Car

The list of things that a disabled child cannot do is shrinking rapidly. Cross operating a remote-controlled car off the list as well.

The common picture of a child operating a toy car is of a device that has a joystick and requires two hands to hold and operate. Some children lack the body skills to pull that off.


The Dream-Racer is a system that turns a child's simplest movements into commands that the toy car can understand and implement. The most visible use is in a baseball cap, which has been specially engineered as a radio transmitter that responds to nods of the head. The company has also designed gloves and shoes that respond to wiggles of fingers and toes. Thus, children who have lost use of one, two, three, or even four of their limbs can still enjoy the feeling of directing a toy car around the room.

A U.K. company sells these cars at the moment, for 159 pounds (US$315), which includes car, controller, and battery.




Written by Monica Tele
Published in Other Tech