What if you could be enticed into saving more money just by being made to look older? What if you could be encouraged to exercise with greater regularity by appearing to be more overweight, and what if you could be made to become more environmentally-conscious by cutting down “virtual” trees. The aforementioned ideas might sound [...]
It is no secret that the population of Japan is among the oldest in the world. It is also no secret that Japanese corporations (as well as government officials) are looking for innovative ways to allow this population to remain as independent as long as possible. Robots are one possible solution as this video demonstrates:
Twenty-two hundred years ago, you needed to work 50 hours to buy an hour of light from a sesame oil lantern. Today, to purchase an hour of an even cleaner and brighter light, it takes the average person about half a second. Such is the nature of technological progress. Yet, I think we can all [...]
It was recently reported that a day care facility in Sweden is now using GPS technology to help keep track of children during field trips. The same technology had been used now for a few years by some nursing homes to help keep track of Alzheimer patients. GPS technology also, of course, serves as the basis [...]
I recently delivered a keynote presentation to Care Providers of Minnesota–an association of aging services facilities. During my talk, I showed a snippet from this video of a parapalegic woman using a new robotic exoskeleton to walk. I suggested that in the not-to-distant future a number of people would altogether forego wheelchairs. The future is [...]
New reports have demonstrated that certain skin-cancer treatments which target specific genes are yielding extraordinary results. According to Hal Barron, chief medical officer of Roche, the findings “mark a major step forward in personalizing the treatment of metastic melanoma.” Said another doctor of the results, “[it] takes your breath away if you’re a melanoma doc.” [...]