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Think the high-tech market of the future is just teens, tweens and twentysomethings who want their iPods smarter, their Xboxes faster and their cell phones thinner? Consider this: in the next 10 to 20 years, 78 million baby boomers in the U.S. will reach ages when health care is a worry. That sizable number--and the billions of dollars it represents in potential sales--has sent companies scrambling for technology to help seniors cope with the infirmities that come with aging while maintaining their autonomy. Here's a preview of some of the fascinating gadgets currently in the works...
...going to beat the Pearl in a beauty contest, but the 5-oz. E62 fits into jacket pockets or purses just fine-it's definitely thinner than a Palm Treo. It's got a bright 3-in. screen of decent resolution, a wide, well planned QWERTY keyboard and a sturdy body backed by a nice aluminum plate. It takes MiniSD cards, and although you need to remove the back plate to insert them, you do not need to remove the battery - that's a step in the right direction for Nokia. There's no camera, but you probably already have...
...Reader is about the size of a trade paperback, though thinner, and instead of a liquid-crystal display, its 6-in. screen uses E-Ink technology. Each of its finely packed pixels can be white or black but they don't shimmer or emit any light, so the experience is eerily like looking at paper, high in contrast and relaxing on the eye. The tradeoff is that E-Ink can't yet refresh fast enough to show video, and even scrolling or zooming is a complicated business, but that's not the purpose of the Reader. Even without a backlight...
...classes are large, larger than either students or faculty want,” Professor of Economics James H. Stock wrote in an e-mail. “So our challenge is to address the demand for secondary concentrations in a way that does not stretch our resources even thinner and thereby degrade the quality of education we provide to our undergraduates...
...hours, guaranteeing the playback of one or two, if not three full-length features. That also means 20 hours of music. The 30GB iPod ($249) has shorter battery life-3.5 hours of video or 14 hours of music-but it manages to outperform its predecessor while being 30% thinner...