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<blockquote data-quote="Kheti sa-Menik" data-source="post: 3417250" data-attributes="member: 22721">Has anyone has ever seen &quot;War of the Worlds&quot; the TV Series from the 80s?Basic Premise:&nbsp; After the War of the Worlds invasion in 1953, the aliens didn't actually die, they went into deep hibernation and the US government sealed them up into oil drums and put them in a toxic waste facility.&nbsp; 30 some odd&nbsp; years later, the radiation from the waste has killed the germs that infected the aliens and made them somewhat resistant to them.&nbsp; Aliens wake up and begin claiming human bodies as hosts to protect them from the bacteria.&nbsp;&nbsp; US government puts together a team to look into wiping out the aliens.There was a character named Norton Drake who was in a wheel chair.&nbsp; He was a computer genius who main project was coordinate information on the aliens, decipher their communication technology, and work with the scientists to find a technological way to beat the aliens.He was in an electric wheelchair that he could either wheel by hand or use a hand control to drive it forward.&nbsp; Also, he developed a voice activation technology for it.&nbsp; The chair's AI would wait until the activation phrase was uttered &quot;Gertrude&quot; (what Norton called the chair), then await a movement command.&nbsp; This command was either a number of feet and a direction, such as &quot;4 Back&quot;.So if Norton said &quot;Gertrude, 3 forward&quot;&nbsp; the chair would move three feet forward.&nbsp; But also if Norton mapped out a specific location, like his computer lab, he could program various positions into Gertrude memory.&nbsp; So he could say &quot;Gertrude, Workstation 4&quot; and the chair would remember where he was in the room and take him to the correct area of the room.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, this required him to have mapped out an area....and any changes to the layout...adding furniture like a desk..would require remapping of the area in Gertrude's software.Norton was also very good with a bo staff.&nbsp; He and the military character would spar frequently.&nbsp; Norton had fast and strong upper body strength, combined with voice control of his wheelchair and a strong intellect made him fairly formidable for a computer geek in a wheel chair.See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_%28TV_series%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(TV_series)</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kheti sa-Menik, post: 3417250, member: 22721"] Has anyone has ever seen "War of the Worlds" the TV Series from the 80s? Basic Premise: After the War of the Worlds invasion in 1953, the aliens didn't actually die, they went into deep hibernation and the US government sealed them up into oil drums and put them in a toxic waste facility. 30 some odd years later, the radiation from the waste has killed the germs that infected the aliens and made them somewhat resistant to them. Aliens wake up and begin claiming human bodies as hosts to protect them from the bacteria. US government puts together a team to look into wiping out the aliens. There was a character named Norton Drake who was in a wheel chair. He was a computer genius who main project was coordinate information on the aliens, decipher their communication technology, and work with the scientists to find a technological way to beat the aliens. He was in an electric wheelchair that he could either wheel by hand or use a hand control to drive it forward. Also, he developed a voice activation technology for it. The chair's AI would wait until the activation phrase was uttered "Gertrude" (what Norton called the chair), then await a movement command. This command was either a number of feet and a direction, such as "4 Back". So if Norton said "Gertrude, 3 forward" the chair would move three feet forward. But also if Norton mapped out a specific location, like his computer lab, he could program various positions into Gertrude memory. So he could say "Gertrude, Workstation 4" and the chair would remember where he was in the room and take him to the correct area of the room. Of course, this required him to have mapped out an area....and any changes to the layout...adding furniture like a desk..would require remapping of the area in Gertrude's software. Norton was also very good with a bo staff. He and the military character would spar frequently. Norton had fast and strong upper body strength, combined with voice control of his wheelchair and a strong intellect made him fairly formidable for a computer geek in a wheel chair. See: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_%28TV_series%29[/url] [/QUOTE]

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