Unintended Insights from the documentary Cyber-Seniors
Cyber-Seniors, currently making the rounds of indie cinemas, is a well-meaning documentary by filmmaker Saffron Cassaday that chronicles the efforts of her siblings and their high school classmates to...
View ArticleSimple Tech for Simple Tasks
Before there were carebots, exoskeletons and other expensive types of assistive technology, there were gadgets to help people open jars, pull up zippers and other mundane tasks that become more...
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Quick–but important–Caregiving Survey from PBS
PBS’s Next Avenue, a site that covers all aspects of senior living, is conducting an online survey focused on ideas to “help broaden choices and improve ongoing living assistance.” They hope to use the...
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Pretty and Practical: A ring that alerts
At first, Ringly struck us as one of those ridiculous person-who-has-everything items: It’s a $200-ish ring that vibrates when you get a call or other mobile message because Heaven forbid you’d take...
View ArticleHands-free Page-turning
Is your life filled with desk-crushing textbooks or Everest-high piles of murder mysteries? Are you dreading reading them because of arthritis, repetitive stress or other hand injuries? Musicians and...
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A brief chat with Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA)
If you’re mad at somebody, don’t yell at the TV–call me.* Scott Peters *(that would be whoever your representative is.) We promise we’ll avoid politics, except when it’s of note for seniors. Last...
View ArticleStar Trek’s Tricorders–available before decade’s end?
In one of the funniest scenes from 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, our heroes rescue a fellow crew member from the “dark ages” of late 20th Century medicine. The techniques are so bizarre to the...
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A prototype for automating computer log-offs
The term “backronym” was coined to describe a phase constructed to fit a suitable word, as opposed to the simpler process of making acronyms. NASA is an acronym. ZEBRA, which stands for Zero-Effort...
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The future of PERS (personal emergency response systems)
Market research and analysis firm Frost & Sullivan is out with a report on PERs (Personal Emergency Response Systems), known to the rest of us as those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” devices....
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The watch we’ve been watching for?
We admit we’ve gotten more than a little bit weary of endless variations on Personal Emergency Response Systems (aka “I’ve fallen and…”) as well as “Big Brother” sensors to track the movements of...
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