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CustomizingBiz.com, Oct. 20, 2009
Finding Opportunities in Mobility
Scott Darnell loved driving big trucks and fast cars before a diving accident left him paralyzed. “When I woke up, they told me the only option for me was a full-size van,” Darnell said. “I was kind of bummed with that so immediately I started thinking about different ways that I could get myself in and out of different vehicles.” Darnell’s solution was the DMS series of wheelchair lifts produced by his company, Further Options in Greenville, Ill., that let anyone in a wheelchair drive whatever vehicle they’d like. “What we were running up against is I didn’t want a vehicle that looked like it was for the disabled, I wanted a vehicle that looked just like anybody else’s, that I could modify just like anybody else’s,” Darnell said. “My first truck [with the DMS] was a Dodge Ram that we had on airbags and everything else and it would drop down almost to the ground. Now I’m in a new full-size Chevy Silverado.” Regardless of how they were injured, disabled car enthusiasts and every-day drivers like Darnell are looking for products to help them with the mechanics of driving or riding in a vehicle, and to spiff those vehicles up. Aftermarket retailers are finding ways to meet all of those needs...
Truck And SUV Performance, Feb. 11, 2009
Paralyzed Inventor's Truck Lift Wins 2009 ADA New Technology Award
Further OPTIONS, a developer of vehicle entry systems for wheelchair-bound individuals, has been recognized by the Adaptive Driving Alliance (ADA) as the recipient of its 2009 New Technology Award for Innovation in Engineering and Technology for the physically challenged....
The Greenville
Advocate, Feb. 5, 2009
Nominated
for Adaptive Driving Alliance National Award
Further OPTIONS,
a developer of innovative vehicle entry systems for wheelchair-bound individuals,
is among the nominees for a national award....
Truck And
SUV Performance, Feb. 3, 2009
Paralyzed
Inventor's Truck Lift up for Technology Award at Mobility Equipment Dealers
Conference
Further OPTIONS
Inc., a developer of mobility systems for wheelchair-bound individuals,
has been nominated by the Adaptive Driving Alliance (ADA) as a finalist
for its annual New Technology Award for Innovation in Engineering and Technology
for the physically challenged. The company's co-founders, Scott Darnell
and David Gotter, will be exhibiting the newest version of their U.S. Patent-pending
DMS-4 Pickup Truck Wheelchair Entry System at NMEDA's (National Mobility
Equipment Dealers Association) annual conference in Daytona Beach, Florida,
which begins on Feb. 4 and wraps up with an awards ceremony on Feb. 6....
Universal
Positive, Feb. 3, 2009
Best
young/tech entrepreneurs...
This week,
I'll be in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the 2009 National Mobility Equipment
Dealers Association's annual conference, where I anticipate that some exciting
developments will be happening for my brother's company Further OPTIONS,
which is among three finalists nominated for this year's Adaptive Driving
Alliance (ADA) New Technology Award for Innovation in Engineering and Technology
for the physically challenged...
dBusinessNews,
St. Louis Metro Edition, Jan. 30, 2009
TRUCK
LIFT FROM PARALYZED INVENTOR IN RUNNING FOR TECHNOLOGY AWARD AT 2009 MOBILITY
EQUIPMENT DEALERS CONFERENCE
Engineering
and Technology Innovation Award for Physically Challenged to be Presented
at Ceremony on Fri., Feb. 6. Scott Darnell to demonstrate his DMS-4-equipped
2008 Chevrolet Silverado in booth #929 at Daytona Beach conference, Feb.
5-6, 2009....
Wheelchair
Highway, July 18, 2008
Take
A Closer Look
David Gotter
and Scott Darnell established Further OPTIONS in 2003 to develop innovative
vehicle entry systems, and other breakthrough products, for wheelchair-bound
individuals. Gotter also owns and operates two successful machine shops,
D & R Machine and Alton Machine Works, and stemming from his experiences
growing up with a younger sister who was confined to a chair, he brings
a heartfelt desire to help people in wheelchairs enjoy all that life has
to offer. Darnell suffered a life-altering spinal cord injury in 1991,
and as a C-5/6 quadriplegic, has pursued his dream of helping create important
new mobility options for others in wheelchairs. Having met at their local
place of worship, over the past three years, with a great deal of support
from many friends and family-members, the two men have persevered in bringing
their first patent-pending product to market....
Illinois
Business Journal, December 2007
Spotlight
on Southwestern Illinois Entrepreneurs
Further OPTIONS
Inc., Scott Darnell and David Gotter....
PN:
Paraplegia News, March 2007
Pickup-Truck
Entry System
In fall, 2006,
Further OPTIONS, Inc., a developer of vehicle-entry systems for wheelchair
users, displayed its first commercial product at the 2006 SEMA Show in
Las Vegas, Nev. The result of years of painstaking research, the
patent-pending DMS-3 establishes a hybrid method, system and apparatus
for moving a wheelchair user into a vehicle....
Trucking
Times, January/February 2007
SEMA
SHOW: Round 2
Further OPTIONS,
Inc., a developer of innovative vehicle entry systems for wheelchair-bound
individuals, displayed its first commercial product, the U.S. Patent-pending
DMS-3 Pickup Truck Wheelchair Entry System. The announcement was
proudly made by the company's co-founders, David Gotter and Scott Darnell...
Trucking
& SUV Performance and Accessory Retailing, January 2007
SEMA
Showcase
What products
are you highlighting at SEMA? A wheelchair lift that allows a handicapped
individual to be able to get in a pickup truck....
WGEL Daily,
Jan. 12, 2007
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS PROMO
Join us this
Sunday for WGEL's Public Affairs Program. Our guest this week is Greenville
resident Scott Darnell with Further-Options. Scott will talk with
us about how a spinal cord injury, that occurred to him several years ago,
has allowed him to create a wheelchair lift that allows individuals more
options when choosing a vehicle. Scott will also discuss what a choice
like that means to a person in his situation....
The Telegraph,
Nov. 27, 2006
Entrepreneurs
create wheelchair lift system; device allows motorists to drive without
leaving chair
Jerseyville
- Coming soon to area garages: the ability to transform regulation
automobiles into handicapped-accessible ones - without changing the vehicle's
outward appearance. The means is a new product, a patent-pending
wheelchair lift system, that is the result of teamwork between Scott Darnell
and David Gotter, who have co-founded a company called Further OPTIONS.
The lift is the company's first commercial product and will be available
after Feb. 1....
WGEL Daily,
Nov. 22, 2006
LIFT
DESIGNED BY GREENVILLE MAN TO HELP THOSE IN WHEELCHAIRS
Individuals
who are wheel chair-bound will soon have more options on the types of vehicles
they can own, thanks to a Greenville man. Scott Darnell, with Further-Options
has spent many years designing a wheelchair lift that can be installed
in certain trucks. Darnell has been wheelchair-bound since a spinal
cord injury in 1991 and spoke to WGEL about his determination to get his
product available to others...
Neurotalk
Communities, Nov. 7, 2006
Paralyzed
Inventor's First Commercial Product Ready For Close-up At 2006 Sema Show
DMS-3 Pickup
Truck Wheelchair Entry System from Further OPTIONS Offers Competitive Cost,
Cosmetic and Installation Advantages, Plus New Freedoms for Wheelchair-Bound
Individuals...
The Greenville
Advocate, Nov. 7, 2006
DARNELL'S
DEVICE COULD CHANGE DRIVING FOR WHEELCHAIR-BOUND; INVENTION FEATURED AT
LAS VEGAS SHOW
Never underestimate
what a dream can do for a person. As a teenager, Scott Darnell of
Greenville was an avid athlete and even more interested in cars.
He could have been described as the All-American Boy. At six feet,
five inches, Darnell was a good all around athlete. He earned letters
in three sports, football, baseball and basketball. But his real
love was away from the field and the court. It was underneath the hood
of a car....
Care Cure
Community, Nov. 4, 2006
Paralyzed
Inventor's First Commercial Product Ready For Close-up At 2006 Sema Show
DMS-3 Pickup
Truck Wheelchair Entry System from Further OPTIONS Offers Competitive Cost,
Cosmetic and Installation Advantages, Plus New Freedoms for Wheelchair-Bound
Individuals...
MarSciTechtainment,
Nov. 3, 2006
Marketing
Case Study: Further OPTIONS, Inc.
..Challenge..
The specialty automotive industry represents an exploding marketplace –
where sales for 2005 exceeded $30 billion. To tap their share, the best
players – ranging from all the major automotive manufacturers down to regional
shop-owners specializing in vehicle customizations and accessories – employ
proactive sales and marketing tactics, with the goal of driving customer
purchases. Naturally, it’s a marketplace where the playing field can be
quite fierce. In one of its niches, approximately 100,000 vehicles are
sold each year that are then modified for drivers with various disabilities…
and adaptive mobility systems are in increasing demand....
dBusinessNews,
St. Louis Metro Edition, Oct. 25, 2006
PARALYZED
INVENTOR’S FIRST COMMERCIAL PRODUCT READY FOR CLOSE—UP AT 2006 SEMA SHOW
IN LAS VEGAS
ST. LOUIS
— Further OPTIONS, Inc. (www.further-options.com), a developer of innovative
vehicle entry systems for wheelchair-bound individuals, today announced
that it will be displaying its first commercial product, the U.S. Patent-pending
DMS-3 Pickup Truck Wheelchair Entry System, at the 2006 SEMA Show.
The announcement was proudly made by the company's Co-Founders, David Gotter
and Scott Darnell....
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