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Jive is Hardware-Based System to Get Grandpa Social-Networking

I thought silver-surfers were one of the fastest rising 'netted sectors of society, but designer Ben Arent thinks there are technophobic grandparents who could do with a helping hand. His Jive system integrates hardware-based social networking gizmos with a simple router to make everything a bit simpler. The idea is that instead of using a mouse, you simply slot in a physical key to the "Betty" unit and it'll do the online status updating automatically for you. More »

11:00 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,253 views, 6 comments

Latest by J France: @infmom: The key really is explaining that they're unlikely to fuck anything up. Once my older students (informal this-is-the-internets, this-is-the-google classes more »