Zeal introduces a brand new technology of mobility walkers

From stunning strolling sticks to trendy tablet packing containers and seize bars, we’ve observed a rising variety of intelligent designs tailored to the older technology previously 12 months or so. Now, it’s the flip of the common-or-garden mobility walker, which has simply had a minimalist makeover courtesy of Zeal Lifestyle.

After 4 years of collaboration with customers, the younger British model has provide you with the distinctive ‘Zeal’ walker, a sensible mobility support ‘designed to promote independence, enhance confidence and provide style’ for the aged and disabled.

Far from bland and utilitarian, the rollator just isn’t solely compact and foldable but in addition obtainable in a alternative of colors starting from black to pastel shades, with matching equipment corresponding to pared-back baggage and backrests.

Each walker is made to order in Zeal’s Surrey workshop, and totally customisable – so prospects can go for a minimalist, all-white look or as a substitute go for a rainbow of colors, mixing a Sage body with Thistle vegan leather-based seat and Onyx wheels.

‘Our mission from the beginning has been to remove the stigma of using walkers,’ says Georgia Williams, CEO of Zeal Lifestyle. ‘We know choosing a mobility aid can be a huge decision, so we wanted to design a walker that customers feel proud to use. It is more than just a mobility aid – it’s a alternative of favor, identification and independence’.

Williams, a retail designer, and Zeal co-founder Joshua King, an industrial designer, began the corporate after wanting to buy a walker for his or her family members and realising how restricted and uninspiring the choices had been. ‘What we found on the market didn’t match their type, and as designers, we knew we may do higher,’ writes the duo.

Their upgraded model is a light-weight, 5.9kg design that ensures most person consolation whereas offering stability and help. It additionally comes with adjustable handles, shock-absorbing wheels and enhanced grip handles.

Key to the undertaking is the design duo’s concentrate on sustainability, with the environmental affect thought of at each stage, in collaboration with local weather companions Flotilla. The ‘Zeal’ walker is manufactured to order utilizing premium, aircraft-grade aluminium that’s infinitely recyclable, and 100% recyclable plastic.

In a primary for mobility aids, customers can change or recycle every of its parts. The rollator comes with a complete three-year guarantee (lifetime for the body itself), however when time comes it may be disassembled totally, utilizing solely three Allen keys.