Fuente: New York Times, edición digital del 13 de enero de 2009.

Gadgets for Growing Old at Home

By Jane Gross

 

Technology giants like Intel offer a growing number of devices, such as this health monitor, intended to help aging family members remain in their homes. (Courtesy Intel Corp.)My colleague John Leland, writing from the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, sent us these musings on the first-ever exhibit there devoted to technology aimed at the elderly, their adult children and their medical providers. We welcome the thoughts of all concerned digerati, parents and children, old and not-so-old. — Jane GrossAt the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I stepped onto an ordinary-looking white bathroom scale. The scale sent a signal via Bluetooth to a control box, which read my weight aloud. It was my first time on the scale. We had no relationship. I was just data. The machine was just a disembodied voice.

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