spoonie-living:[Image: Two feet in tennis shoes with Zubits (two rectangular magnets clicked toget
spoonie-living: [Image: Two feet in tennis shoes with Zubits (two rectangular magnets clicked together, with holes jutting out from their outer sides) strewn around and laced into the shoe. Two hands demonstrate how the product lets you “open” your shoelaces down the middle for easy on and off, after initially lacing each side of the lace up the magnets instead of crisscrossing each other.] Zubits ($20) The Accessible Magnetic Lacing Solution Hot diggity dang! These look ridiculously easy to work with and are certainly the most elegant solution to accessible footwear we’ve seen—and we’ve seen quite a few. How they work: lace your shoes up with these little doohickeys, and you can easily slip them on and off with a quick click. The magnets can take a lot of movement without failing, but still come apart easily when you go to take off your shoes. Not only do they remove the need to work your poor joints into tying and untying a knot, but once you learn the hands-free technique, it looks like you can pop these shoes off without even bending over (hear that, POTS patients?). And honestly, with a little dexterity, you might be able to put ‘em on hands-free, too. Not sure you can manage pulling the magnets apart? Not to fear: the tips and tricks page covers a few different ways to git ‘er done with even more accessibly. Bonus: it sounds like patients and PTs have found ways to use these on laced braces and similar orthotics, too! Wanna see videos of these things in action? Check out Zubits’ Vimeo channel for a bunch of demos. And for the rest of Feb 2019, get 20% off with the coupon code SPOONIE! Start shopping here. Honestly, we want one in every color!! -- source link
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