Thursday, 12 April 2012

Graying America gets connected to cut medical costs

<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) Baby boomers connected to their iPads and intelligent phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut a mountainous costs of medical caring in graying America.
Some of a ideas competence sound like Robo-Granny. An astronautical operative during a Massachusetts Institute of Technology has done a skin-tight undersuit versed with sensors that can constantly guard a critical signs of a aged wearer and feed a information into a mechanism that fires off health alerts. It was initial designed for a alighting on Mars.
Theres also Paro, a robotic pointer that has fur, vast eyes and responds to voice commands, a low-cost messenger that a AgeLab during MIT is contrast to assistance ease aged people with dementia. Then there is a sorcery runner with a built-in sensor that monitors speed to check for risk of falling.
Other ideas are easier and already are being tested by governments and private health in...

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