Friday, March 1, 2013

Fujitsu makes 'smart walking stick' to advice elderly


A walking stick with congenital sat-nav has been developed by Japanese technology behemothic Fujitsu.
Fujitsu walking stick
The Next Generation Cane is advised to advice aged humans acquisition their way, as able-bodied as adviser things such as affection amount and temperature.

Its area can aswell be followed online - and can be set up to forward email alerts if it thinks the user may accept collapsed over.

Technology for the aged is a key affair for Japan's ageing population.

Fujitsu, like several companies in the region, is searching at means to advice us abide adaptable and affiliated after into our lives - potentially extending our adeptness to accumulate on working.

The ancestor device, apparent off at Adaptable World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, is able with assorted affiliation technologies such as GPS, 3G and wifi - and has an LED affectation on top of the handle.

If a change of administration is needed, the walking stick vibrates, and an arrow appears.

'Mature customer'

The stick sends abstracts aback to a host computer, so a carer or about can see the area of the user, with added data, such as affection rate, getting streamed.

If the stick detects an aberrant heartbeat, it can automatically acquaintance emergency services.

Also on appearance at MWC was Fujitsu's smartphone advised for the aged - or the "mature customer", in their words.

The Stylistic runs Google's Android operating system, but is adapted to aid humans who accept conceivably not acclimated a smartphone before.

The interface includes catechism marks at assorted locations to explain what anniversary action is.

The buzz is aswell able to change the abundance of audio to accomplish it easier for earlier aerial to hear.

There is as yet no planned absolution date for the Next Generation Cane, but the buzz will barrage in Europe in June, alpha with France.

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