Songwriters invent for a living, but Nashville's Barry Dean ("Heartache Medication," "Pontoon") ventured into a new realm with the development of a wheelchair mobility device that could prevent thousands of injuries to seniors and disabled people.
Dean co-founded LUCI with his Denver-based brother, chief technical officer Jered Dean, launching a smart device with cloud-based alerts that help prevent users from tipping their wheelchairs or banging into walls and other objects.
Wheelchair accidents resulted in more than 175,000 hospital visits in 2010, according to the National Library of Medicine, and 30,000 of those required the patient to be admitted.
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