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Losing the ability to speak would be a catastrophe for a nosy neighbor. I mean, really, the thought of getting through the day without ringing up a few neighbors to inform them of the latest town gossip would simply be unthinkable, darling.
Breaking a few vertebrae and ending up in the hospital unable to communicate [...]

It sucks to be single these days, especially if you’re sipping wine at a bar. Chances are the din in the room is wreaking havoc on your ability to hear anything! Given your early rock ‘n’ roll days, it’s not surprising. Those loud decibels battering your ears were doing more than make your crotch pulse; [...]

A stroke has a way of disabling certain features of the human body like hand movements. Humans being humans, with the ability to think, have turned to robotic therapy as a way to improve the situation instead of living in deprivation. Check out HOWARD, an acronym for Hand-Wrist Assisting Robotic Device, designed by [...]

Before video totally clogs up the internet bandwith, learn how to video blog from Wall Street Journal technology reporter, Walter Mosberg. It’s fun, it’s cheap, and it just might get you to stop swearing about how your kids never come to visit!
Anyone Can Produce, And Star, in a Video — Just like Mine
Wall Street Journal, [...]

As we move into the 21st Century, technology will play a more important role in our lives, especially in terms of keeping us alive. The future portends a variety of monitoring systems that place sensor devices around the house in order to keep track of daily life.
The system will be available online 24 hours [...]

The more you stimulate your brain, the less likely you are to suffer from cognitive impairment later in life, especially from nasty diseases like Alzheimer’s…at least that’s what a host of new companies are saying as they push their brain games into the marketplace.

Here’s a rundown of what’s out there:

Posit Science Brain Fitness Program
The Brain [...]

If you find directions confusing, then it’s time to join the electronic navigation revolution. Garmin makes a wide variety of portable devices that you mount in your car, SUV, or truck that provide you with street by street instructions for how to get to your destination. All you have to do is input your destination [...]

An amazing demonstration of touch screen technology that will revolutionize how technology gets used in the future. Bravo!

Can’t Touch This
Credits:
Jefferson Y. Han
Project Director
Core System, Fluid
Philip L. Davidson
Recurl, Photoboard / Magnetic Poetry, Sketching (As Rigid As Possible), 3D PZR Manipulation, NASA World Wind, Turntable, Modular Synth Patch & Control, Video Mixer, Planarity
Casey M.R. Muller
Slingshot, Boggle
Ilya D. [...]

When you’re twenty-five, you can pretty much live anywhere - a car, the beach, even on a train between cities as you tramp your way across Europe. As you get older, though, and the body parts stop working according to the manufacturer’s specs, you discover that living ain’t so easy anymore. In fact, it might [...]

If you’re traveling to San Antonio, Texas by wheelchair and need internet access, then the Good Bytes Cafe is for you. Universal design reigns supreme here, providing technology access that eliminates the usual barriers to use.

Designed to provide technology resources for individuals with disabilities or barriers to work. The latest in assistive technologies for individuals [...]

The future of aging is turning into a real life adventure straight out of Star Trek. All kinds of companies are cropping up with the intention of making old age an excuse to sell you a device that makes the process more genial. One such company is SmartSilvers Alliance.
The goal of SmartSilvers is to [...]

Here’s a great holiday gift for someone who doesn’t own a computer: a printer that is enabled to received emails and photos from family and friends. What a fun idea. It’s like having a newspaper delivered on a daily basis, ready to read with your morning coffee. Smart thinking!

HP Printing Mailbox for use with Presto [...]

The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is leading the national charge to develop and deploy emerging technologies that can improve the aging experience in America. Established in 2003, CAST has become a national coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging services organizations, research universities, and government representatives.
The Mission:
1. Driving a [...]

Meet your future companion, the pill pet. This furry friend is designed to dispense your daily medications with a purrrfect mix of play and emotion. MIT’s AgeLab is working this idea in order to make the task, and sometimes complicated process, of taking pills easier for senior citizens.
Just asking: Is it a he or [...]

Before you can invent something, you need to have a problem. Instead of getting annoyed with the problem, the inventor studies why the problem exists and sets out to fix it. This whole mentality of fixing things viewed as problems is more than a rainy day hobby. A select few turn into family fortunes.
The [...]

Engineers can make just about anything these days, including a watch that speaks the time, day, date and year. You gotta love the names they come up with to describe this stuff: “ezc voice technology.” Man, all that effort to teach kids how to spell and then marketers turn around and put their Joycean spin [...]

For those suffering from low vision or macular degeneration, here’s a couple of oversized TV remotes that make controlling electronic products a lot easier.

Super-Sized TV Remote
With giant buttons, this extra-large remote is easy to use and impossible to lose. Simple to program, this 6-in-1 remote controls your TV, VCR, DVD player, satellite, cable and [...]

If a bike needs a light at night, then it makes sense that a wheelchair might also. To be honest, I never thought about it until I read about how Cocoon Branding invented a new and improved wheelchair light. Check it out!

This smart technology gives the wheelchair-user one less obstacle to face, in addition to [...]

Before you get tethered up to an oxygen tank that follows you around like a juvenile delinquent on probation, there’s still time to buy a laptop and hit the coffee shop circuit, where you too can hang out with the hipsters and demonstrate your ability to adapt and assimilate into pop culture.
We present to [...]

Open source development of ideas for the good of humanity has taken root in the internet age. The act of collaborating on projects, allowing anyone in the world to participate based on their knowledge and expertise, has the potential to produce a substantial trove of intellectual property that resides in the public domain.
One such [...]