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...elderly often land in the hospital because they've forgotten to take medication. Microsoft and Intel are developing a wristwatch that prompts the wearer to take his pills. The doctor types into his computer instructions on when medication should be taken, and the information is transmitted to the patient's computer, which downloads it to the watch. Around the appointed hour, when the senior is near the location where the pills are stored, a sensor tracking the senior's movements alerts the watch, which signals that it's medicine time. The watch, which should be available in two years...
...Intel has been researching a cane with a sensor that sends an alert when the cane hasn't been used for several days, a tip-off that its user may be unable to move around. The company is also looking at sensors that in the next couple of years might be placed in canes or shoes to inform a doctor about the minute changes in a senior's stride that may be an early indication of neurological problems such as Parkinson...
...steroids," and it helps Alzheimer's patients in the early phases of the disease who stop calling friends for fear they can't remember voices and names, a form of isolation that can lead to depression, accelerate the disease and put them in a nursing home. An Intel phone comes with a screen that projects a caller's picture and name along with a note typed or recorded by the two parties after their previous phone conversation, describing what they had discussed. The memory joggers make the patient more willing to keep in touch with loved ones...
...Some U.S. companies are already taking notice. Last week, Intel announced plans to invest $1 billion in building the world's largest microchip assembly factory in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Factories contracted by Nike employ 160,000 people, and recently increased their annual production to 70 million pairs of shoes, making Vietnam the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers. (China is the largest.) The attraction for investors is obvious: Vietnam's labor force is educated, young and growing, while wages are even lower than in China's coastal cities. And the repressive political climate...
...intel chiefs are even more pessimistic over the prospects for Iraq if the U.S. is unable to ensure sufficient stability for the central government to exercise form of sovereignty over the country. The consequences of a failed Iraqi state would be "catastrophic" for Iraqis, Hayden warned. "It would plunge them deeper into chaos and the road out of it would be longer." The instability for the rest of region would be "almost as bad." The temptation of Iran and Syria to intervene "may become irresistible." And, Hayden worries, it "would embolden the worst of our enemies - certainly al-Qaeda...