News Headlines: Friday, 1st April 2011

Flying Wheelchair Wins ‘Best New Accessible Invention’ Award- Disability Now

A disabled Science student at Brunel University has won this year’s ‘Best New Accessible Invention’ Award at the NAIDEX disability exhibition. Degree student Harry Potter, 19, has invented a manual wheelchair with wings attached to its sides. It reportedly flies up staircases and through traffic jams. An excited Harry told Disability Now that the invention was inspired by the chair in Enid Blyton’s Wishing Chair series, a childhood favourite of his.

‘Chocolate Eyeball’ Biscuits Restore Sight- Insight Radio

New chocolate biscuits in the shape of eyeballs are reportedly a miraculous cure for sight loss. Eating one packet of the sweet treats a day is said to permanently restore you to 20:20 vision in five minutes flat.

Oxford Dictionary Accepts New Words- Able Magazine

The 2012 edition of the Oxford Dictionary will reportedly feature two new words- DisAbility, meaning ‘the ability not to do something that others take for granted’ and DisAbled, meaning simply ‘to have a DisAbility.’ This inclusive language has been added to the world-famous dictionary in time for, and in celebration of, the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Coffee Cures Cerebral Palsy- Bobath News

Patients at The Bobath Centre will be pleased to learn that from next week, their regular physiotherapy sessions will be replaced by group coffee mornings. The decision comes after one of our student physiotherapists discovered during an experiment as part of our course that drinking  coffee in the company of true friends every day for a year irreversibly cures Cerebral Palsy. Babies will be given bottles of coffee- we expect and hope that they will be able to lead normal lives after a year with us.

Disabled Journalist Wins Lottery, Closes Blog- Same Difference

The UK’s number 1 disability blog, Same Difference, is to close at midnight tonight. Editor Samedifference1 reports with great excitement that she has won £1 Million on the Lottery and can’t be bothered to write one more word. She adds that she wishes all her readers and other disability bloggers well and knows that her professional world will be left in very safe hands.