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> “I had this idea that there are these assistive grabbers that people with disabilities use to grasp objects in the real world,” he told us. Kemp went on Amazo
by re 6y ago
> “I had this idea that there are these assistive grabbers that people with disabilities use to grasp objects in the real world,” he told us. Kemp went on Amazon’s website and looked at the top 10 grabbers and the reviews from thousands of users. He then bought a bunch of different ones and started testing them. “This one [Stretch’s gripper], I almost didn’t order it, it was such a weird looking thing,” he says. “But it had great reviews on Amazon, and oh my gosh, it just blew away the other grabbers. And I was like, that’s it. It just works.”
There's a few "grabbers"/"reachers" that have a gripper that looks pretty similar to the Stretch's; I'm not sure if there's an "original" that the others are clones of: https://amzn.com/B07RR6N9C7 https://amzn.com/B07RR6N9C7 https://amzn.com/B0812B4TF1 https://amzn.com/B0812B4TF1 https://amzn.com/B01MAW25UW https://amzn.com/B01MAW25UW