A dependent must overcome daily barriers often invisible to those who do not suffer any physical or mental disability. Fortunately, in recent years the technology has focused much of its efforts to find ways to improve the quality of life of this group. The result of that commitment, embodied in art products, it can measure up to today in the first International Conference on Technologies for Access and support for Dependents 'ableTech'08', organized by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the company Tecnalia in the BEC in Barakaldo.
Event organizers claimed that "Congress is not a utopian or science fiction," but at times it seems. Products displaying the sample or just beginning the process of commercialization or are under development, so many raises great expectations. Among the mills
fresh from the market in Spain, highlights 'MyTobii', a computer with eye-tracking program that allows the user to move the mouse eye. First, a camera, captures the visual movements. And from there, the person can chat, select your favorite music and check your emails infrared to a computer. To select the appropriate icons just have to stare a few seconds on them. "It's a great product for people with disabilities, which can be attached to the wheelchair," explained Ivan Wall of Techonology AB Tobii.
Still in the computer industry, visitors can test mice that work with head movements and breaths, computers that put voice to the words and keyboards that are managed with one hand. Other newly released products containing a radio frequency motion detector that prevents Alzheimer's disease or other dementia cross the threshold of the doors that lead to dangerous areas of nursing. The elders are wearing a wristband that emits an alarm when approaching a prohibited item. The range of the device can reach 150 meters.
The house under control
The show proves that you can make the home more accessible for elderly and disabled with a system that eliminates the step of the shower. Already been installed "over 100" in the Basque Country, specifically a company spokesman OSOA Guipuzcoa. In addition, there are gadgets never seen before in Spain, as the 'Oseomatic', a machine that "regenerates bone mass" of patients with osteoporosis or with difficulty walking across a platform that induces a gentle motion plays the roll when walking. In three months will go on sale.
By mid-2009 will enter the market a 'scooter' SUV equipped with a GPS system that enables users with cognitive problems "go to buy bread or visiting a family member" without getting lost. The vehicle reaches 16 mph, also allows the families of the sick "to know where you are at all times." At that time could be ready the first integrated smart home, which will handle lights, alarms, shutters and doors with a PDA or through the set. In case of fire, gas leak or flood, the system will alert the police directly.
But the most ambitious project is to combine housing and the robot domotic people friendly "early-stage Alzheimer's." Currently only works a simple version of the android in the German commercial centers, but a consortium of English, French and English under the supervision of the University of Reading is preparing the technology mix. The robot will save the user's key, it asks if you are in pain, alert the emergency services and will support for the patient to communicate with their families via video conferencing. The future of man's best friend will be operational in 2011.
source: http://www.elcorreodigital.com/vizcaya/prensa/20081211/sociedad/para-depender-nadie-20081211.html
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