Fark linked up this nifty story about a kid who can now control a sophisticated wheel chair using a special controller he'd had rigged up so he could use his Playstation:

Sam Mansel has athetoid cerebral palsy which means control of his arms, hands and legs is disrupted by spontaneous and unwanted violent movement.

For several years the 17-year-old from Milford Haven used switches controlled by his chin to master computer games.

So when experts developed a new chair to give him more independence, they built it using the same technology.

See! See! It's not always wasted time!