Why I Stream — Quadcapable
Episode 3 of the Why I Stream documentary series follows Charlie “Quadcapable” Merritt and looks at how Twitch, adaptive gaming, and technology became tools for connection and disability awareness.
Watch on Vimeo →QuadCapable Media
Documentaries, interviews, podcasts, television features, and selected news coverage featuring Charlie Merritt and QuadCapable.
Charlie Merritt is the founder of QuadCapable, a Marine veteran, adaptive-technology advocate, gamer, and media contributor whose work has been featured across disability, technology, gaming, veteran, and mainstream media.
Full biography →Documentary & Video Portfolio
Documentary profiles and long-form video conversations exploring adaptive gaming, technology, paralysis, independence, and the work behind QuadCapable.
Episode 3 of the Why I Stream documentary series follows Charlie “Quadcapable” Merritt and looks at how Twitch, adaptive gaming, and technology became tools for connection and disability awareness.
Watch on Vimeo →A long-form conversation about catastrophic injury, rebuilding, purpose, adaptation, and what came next.
Watch on YouTube →Additional television clips, documentary appearances, adaptive-gaming videos, demonstrations, and archived footage will be collected in the QuadCapable Living Résumé and Museum.
Explore the timeline →Interviews & Podcasts
Conversations about assistive technology, adaptive gaming, veterans, caregiving, spinal cord injury, independence, advocacy, and life beyond the expected.
A long-form conversation with Kris exploring Charlie’s story, adaptation, quadriplegia, relationships, technology, and the ongoing evolution of QuadCapable.
Listen on Spotify →A wide-ranging conversation about military service, spinal cord injury, assistive technology, advocacy, purpose, nonprofit work, and building forward after life changes completely.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →Selected News Coverage
A selected public record of QuadCapable, assistive technology, adaptive gaming, independence, and disability advocacy. The larger historical collection will live in the QuadCapable Museum and archive.
A feature on Charlie’s life after spinal cord injury, adaptive equipment, recovery, veterans advocacy, QuadCapable, and his drive to help other people living with paralysis.
Read the feature →Coverage of the UCF and Limbitless Solutions facial-control wheelchair project, with Charlie demonstrating the prototype and discussing independent mobility.
Read UCF News →Television coverage of Charlie testing an adaptive wheelchair-control prototype developed with UCF students and discussing what greater mobility can mean.
View the coverage →New Mobility highlighted QuadCapable and its early focus on spinal cord injury awareness, practical adaptations, rehabilitation, and everyday life.
Read New Mobility →Around the Web
QuadCapable is featured among Nerve Gaming’s adaptive esports players, highlighting competitive gaming with adaptive equipment and the growing community around accessible esports.
From the Other Side of the Microphone
Charlie does not only appear in media. Through Empowered Ability, he hosts conversations around disability, trauma, independence, technology, caregivers, advocacy, and what people build after major life change.
As the podcast archive is rebuilt, selected episodes can be featured directly in this section.
More From the Archive
This page is the curated portfolio. The larger QuadCapable Living Résumé and Museum will preserve older interviews, photographs, news stories, television clips, technology demonstrations, adaptive-sports appearances, and historical media.
Media Inquiries
Charlie is available for interviews and conversations involving assistive technology, adaptive gaming, spinal cord injury, caregiving, veterans, accessibility, accessible travel, entrepreneurship, and life with paralysis.
Charlie@QuadCapable.com