On The Huffington Post (where I also blog), writer Pamela Poole has a savvy take on a handful of new tech products featured and/or inspired by the annual Boomers Business Summit.
I’ve been to a few of those…
24 March 2006
At My Table at The Summit
"So can you tell if someone is having sex?"
"…We think so."
"... Good sex?"
Ms. Poole’s HuffPost Piece:
Leave It To Boomers: Transforming Aging With Tech
… We all know that the physical and cognitive abilities of older people can deteriorate, leaving them unable to manage ordinary tasks and vulnerable to exploitation. It sucks.
Fortunately, thanks to today's tech, we've come a very long way from the "I've fallen and I can't get up" necklace!
The products range from very interesting to old hat to slightly convoluted. You can sort them out yourself.
The thin, portable reading glasses make sense to me – and/or similarly constructed magnifying glasses.
The super-duper walker has me wincing. My first thought was of a bag lady pushing a shopping cart - not a good image.
Some hybrid of this and a product I blogged about a few years ago might work:
14 October 2011
Entrepreneurs & Baby Boomers II… Awhile back I received a phone call from a gentleman who’d designed a clever piece of exercise/sporting equipment for rollicking and rolling on trails. It was an adaptation of another clever, successful product, making a certain popular activity much safer – and more fun.
I’m just not convinced that people would want to mosey around with a shopping cart.
More about technology, baby boomers, entrepreneurs, advertising:
10 April 2013
Entrepreneurs, VCs & Health Tech
… I’ve always been a big fan and supporter of tech and health tech. Fabulous stuff is on the way.But there will be backlash.
