Children are getting smartphones. And presumably a data plan.
The NY Times is testing several devices that promise to make life easier for non-techies.
Study: People who played action-based video and computer games made decisions 25% faster than others without sacrificing accuracy.
Distracted while trying to read an E-Book? Maybe it's all the alternatives on the device.
With Ava, it is using video and computing advances to create robots that can do office work remotely and perhaps one day handle more of the household chores.
Matt Thornhill, Boomer Project: "The advent of Siri means the end of the era when humans have to adapt to new technology."
The number of children living in homes with parents and grandparents is growing.
Typical -- not a word about tech-enabled chronic disease monitoring (or medication management).
Not to be outdone by ABI, Forrester declares that 'the mobile arms race' is underway.
13000 consumer 'health' apps in the Apple app store by next summer.
A vision of do-it-yourself medicine -- but given some of the products, maybe not just yet.
Andrew Carle: The ability for seniors to age in place stems partially from the use of senior care technology.
Mobile Health News quotes ABI Research, which also expects strong growth for home monitoring devices intended for assisted living applications.
Senior Housing News article notes that CCRCs are moving to offer home health care services.
Hopefully a few of the connected Internet TVs are used by seniors who don't have laptops, etc.
State-by-state turnover rates vary from 60 to 100%.
Private site for managing care of aging parents, sick children, or other loved ones.
Administration on Aging and NCOA will step up outreach/education efforts.
CareLinx web-based system seeks to match independent care providers with those who need help.
This “e-comment” video service launched in late September and allowed senior citizens to record their input for the county supervisors at four senior centers.
A prediction from Juniper Research.
This includes support for up to four Kinect sensors plugged into one computer, along with improved 'skeletal tracking' to follow which user is being tracked by the sensor.
What is missing is systems thinking that responds to the entire ‘job’ of the older consumer or caregiver.
March 1, Google plans to follow the activities of users as they move across the firm’s Web sites, including its highly popular YouTube, Gmail and main search engine.
