June 2009
"Clothes could monitor body temperature or
provide bus information. Researchers are examining how hi-tech clothing
could improve the lives of older people. The three-year project could see
electronic devices built in to clothing that could provide information
ranging from heart rate to bus timetables."
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-- BBC
February 2009
"If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the
wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old
driver who is not using a cell phone," said University of Utah psychology
professor David Strayer. "It’s like instantly aging a large number of
drivers." [And like that's a bad thing? Ed.]
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-- Mobile.Blorge
August 2008
"Here is what you have to look forward to as
you enter your 60s and 70s: deciphering conversations at cocktail parties
becomes difficult; you cannot remember where you put your keys; and your
grandchildren think you are a computer klutz.
Fortunately, technologies are appearing that can remedy some of these
shortcomings, helping those in their 60s maintain their youthful
self-images."
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-- The New York Times
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