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For the Advanced in Age, Easy-To-Use Technology For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology 3 Freeing Those Snapshots Trapped Inside the Cellphone 6 Yale Revelation: Renewal for a Building and Its Original Designer 8 Collision Course’ for Graduate Education 11 Sharing Information About ‘Struggling’ Med Students 14 Model targets foot-and-mouth risk 16 Why Is Greenland Covered In Ice? Changes In Carbon Dioxide Levels Explain Transition 18 Heart Attack Patients Who Stop Statin Risk Death, Say Researchers 20 Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study 21 Yellowstone's Ancient Supervolcano: Molten Plume Of Material Cooler Than Expected 22 Nonviable Seeds May Contain Research-Quality DNA 24 Cocaine-induced Brain Plasticity May Protect The Addicted Brain 25 How The Brain Compensates For Vision Loss Shows Much More Versatility 27 Clash Of Clusters Provides New Dark Matter Clue 29 Researching Impact Of Global Warming On Corals 31 First Prehistoric Pregnant Turtle And Nest Of Eggs Discovered In Southern Alberta 33 Taking Earth's Temperature Via Satellite 35 Bone Parts Don't Add Up To Conclusion Of Hobbit-like Palauan Dwarfs 37 Men Defy Stereotypes In Defining Masculinity 39 Is Extinction Or Diversity On The Rise? Study Of Islands Reveals Surprising Results 40 Bones Get Mended With High Tech Glass-of-milk 43 How Diet, Antioxidants Prevent Blindness In Aging Population 44 Stick With Simple Antibiotics For Pneumonia To Avoid Super Bugs, Says Researcher 46 Trouble Quitting? New Smoking Study May Reveal Why 48 When IM Is the Best Way to Stay on Top 50 Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? 52 Change Arrives on Tiptoes at the Frick Mansion 53 Palm-Leaf Offerings From Ancient India 56 Bits of Paper, Scraps of Cloth and Photographs of Photographs 59 Layers to Comment on Layers of Imagery 61 Explosives Go 'Green' ... And Get More Precise 63 Even Without Dementia, Mental Skills Decline Years Before Death 65 Researchers Provide Solution To World’s Worst Mass Poisoning Case 66 Arctic Ice On Verge Of Another All-time Low 68 Model Helps Computers Sort Data More Like Humans 70 Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky Atmosphere 72 New Report Card Shows Campuses Going Greener 74 Subliminal Learning Demonstrated In Human Brain 77 Olive Leaf Extract Can Help Tackle High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol 79 Wind-powered 'Ventomobile' Places First in Race 80 New LIDAR System Sees The Sky In 3D 82 More Aortic Chest Aneurysms Being Treated With Less-invasive Stents 84 Minimum Mass For Galaxies Discovered 86 Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master? 88 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown 90 Revisiting Coen Country for Odd Men 92 Love and Dance: Two Obsessions, One Classic Film 96 Experts poised for rare frog hunt 99 Farm pregnancy 'cuts asthma risk' 102 Chemical coat to mean drier socks 104 Gene 'links food and fertility' 106 Weak teachers 'put off pupils' 108 ‘Two Cultures’ Tension in Social Science 110 Bonobos May Have Greater Linguistic Skills Than Previously Thought 113 Landmark Study Opens Door To New Cancer, Aging Treatments 115 Prehistoric Funerary Precinct Excavated In Northern Israel 117 Biophysical Method May Help To Recover Hearing 119 Treatment Reduces Heart Attack Risk And Revascularisation In Stable Coronary Patients 120 'Lost World' Beneath Caribbean To Be Explored 122 Faster Rise In Sea Level Predicted From Melting Greenland Ice Sheet 124 Crystals Improve Understanding Of Volcanic Eruption Triggers 126 Bone That Blends Into Tendons Created By Engineers 128 Flu Shot Does Not Reduce Risk Of Death, Research Shows 130 Memory Trick Shows Brain Organization 132 Magmatically Triggered Slow Earthquake Discovered At Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii 133 'Rare' mammoth skull discovered 135 Mums-to-be confused over advice 138 New brain cells are essential for learning 140 Adverts are the enemy of art. We should be keeping them out - not sneaking them in 142 Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light On Climate Change On Mars 144 Antidepressants Need New Nerve Cells To Be Effective, Researchers Find 146 Tiny 3-D Ultrasound Probe Guides Catheter Procedures 148 Scientists Discover Why Flies Are So Hard To Swat 150 Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins 152 'Pristine' Amazonian Region Hosted Large, Urban Civilization 153 Black Raspberries Slow Cancer By Altering Hundreds Of Genes 155 Origin Of High Energy Emission From Crab Nebula Identified 157 Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed 159 Sending a Message by Shining a Light on What’s Not Seen 161 When Fear and Chaos Are Normal, Peace and Safety Become Unimaginable 163 About Death, Just Like Us or Pretty Much Unaware? 165 Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogen’s Effects 167 Spot on Popularity Scale Speaks to the Future; Middle Has Its Rewards 170 Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate? Wrong 172 The Odds It Will Kill You? See New Charts 174 Two of a Kind 175 Strange New World 177 Anthromusicology 179 Degas’s Ballet Students Teach the Lessons of Their Art 181 Researchers Develop New Technique For Fabricating Nanowire Circuits 184 Brain Imaging Links Insomnia To Reversible Cognitive Deficits 186 New Methods To Protect Wind Generators During Voltage Dips Developed 187 Baltic States Failing To Protect Most Damaged Sea 189 Bowling Alone Because The Team Got Downsized 191 Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life 193 Heavy Snoring Is An Independent Risk Factor For Carotid Atherosclerosis 195 Infidelity Gene? Genetic Link To Relationship Difficulties Found 196 'Fingerprinting' Helps Make Great Grapes 198 Origin Of Cosmic Dust That Lands On Earth Discovered 199 2 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 36 September 2008 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology By ERIC A. TAUB IN the 1960s, baby boomers, like most young people, could not wait to leave home. Today, those boomers are trying to figure out how to stay at home, even if they are past the age when their parents made the passage to senior living. Companies that have long profited from the transformation of the counterculture into the over-the-counter culture are creating products that they hope will help them do that. Here is what you have to look forward to as you enter your 60s and 70s: deciphering conversations at cocktail parties becomes difficult; you cannot remember where you put your keys; and your grandchildren think you are a computer klutz. Fortunately, technologies are appearing that can remedy some of these shortcomings, helping those in their 60s maintain their youthful self-images. “The new market is old age,” said Joseph F. Coughlin, director of the AgeLab at M.I.T. “Baby boomers provide a perpetually youthful market.” They are, says Mr. Coughlin, himself a spry 47, “looking for technology to stay independent, engaged, well and vital.” As most of them have finished rearing their children and paying for their education, they also have a lot of money, said Mr. Coughlin, and they are looking to spend it on technology. The companies that are successfully marketing new technologies to older people are not those that have created high-tech ways for seniors to open jars. Rather, they are the ones that have learned to create products that span generations, providing style and utility to a range of age groups. An obvious success story is Apple; its iPod line is easy to use and stylish, and its appeal crosses generations. Apple retail stores are clean, sleek and inviting. Older people enjoy entering them because “the Apple stores make you feel smart,” Mr. Coughlin said. Similar trends are happening in the auto industry. In the 1990s, the inside joke at Ford was that the Lincoln Town Car appealed to people whose next car would be a hearse. But those entering their golden years today are not looking for psychedelic-decorated walkers or plush mini-limos. 3 Infoteca’s E-Journal No. 36 September 2008 Sistema de Infotecas Centrales Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila Automobile manufacturers have moved from creating cars for older people to creating cars that can cross generations. Consumers with less-nimble fingers find the large knobs in Honda’s boxy Element easy to manipulate. But Honda did not design them for the arthritis stricken, but for young people who drive while wearing ski gloves, said a Honda spokesman, Chris Martin. The Element’s design, aimed at younger people, inadvertently attracted consumers across age groups. An important future trend, said Eero Laansoo, a human factors engineer for Ford, will be the personalized car, which gives drivers the ability to change instrument fonts and colors to make gauges and dials easier to read. The rash of accident avoidance technologies — like blind spot detection, lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control (which slows your vehicle down if you get too close to another car) — cross age boundaries in their appeal. Teenage drivers can use them, and they can also give confidence to aging drivers with declining motor skills. Here are some current technology products created for aging consumers: CELLPHONES As growth in the mobile phone market slows because most people have bought one, carriers are looking to expand it by focusing on the specific needs of older consumers. The Jitterbug clamshell phone (www.jitterbug.com), made by Samsung ($147, not including a service plan), does not reveal itself as a phone for older people until it is opened, displaying oversize buttons and large type on the screen. One-touch buttons enable easy dialing of 911 and other emergency numbers. The carrier markets the phone to the elderly with ads that explain that consumers can either dial numbers or ask a Jitterbug operator to do it for them. The company says 30 percent chose an operator’s help.
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