Japan Is Tagging and Tracking the Elderly With Stickers
The oldest country in the world is taking new steps to keep their wandering elders in check: adding barcodes their…
The First Cheap 3D Printed Food Is Delicious Nursing Home Mush
Go to the cafeteria of a nursing home and you'll see elderly residents noshing on pureed food. It's necessary for…
8 Simple Products Designed To Make Aging a Little Easier
The world is aging. By 2030, nearly 20 percent of Americans will be over 65. By 2050, about a third of China will be…
Old People Smell, Confirms Science
The results of a study conducted by Johan Lundström and several of his colleagues at the Monell Chemical Senses Center…
If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirement home
If you are in old age, with no family and little money, your options are slim if you need living assistance.
Old People Line Up To Clean Radiation in Japan
Talk about a sacrifice that will warm your heart. A group of older Japanese folks are asking for permission to clean…
The World's Smallest Trailer Can Be Pulled By a Scooter
The QTvan is the perfect trailer for those who ride mobility scooters. Okay fine, those who ride electric scooters proba…
A Checkerboard Home For the Elderly
Designed by the architecture firm Aires Mateus in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, this has got to be one of the coolest…
How to trick young people into driving like the elderly
Sometimes scientific experiments sound like pranks. Case in point: a recent study that managed to turn a bunch of young…
Elderly drivers could hold a key to the neurology of depression
As people get older, their driving skills tend to diminish. Failing eyesight and heavy medication are often blamed for…
Buddy Radio Lets Your Grandma Broadcast Her Feelings to Twitter and Facebook
How does Grandma stay connected to you? Buddy Radio hopes to help the elderly by giving them an old school gadget—a…
Old Person Hovercrafts Are the Wave of the Future
Here's something we can all get behind: levitating chairs for the elderly that scoot around like bumper cars. There is…
The Apple iPad Is For Old People
The guys at Ultimi Barbarorum came up with an idea—an idea we were tossing around after the event yesterday, and even…
Tiny Telescopes Help the Blind See Again
The bionic eye's inexorable advance continued this weekend, as doctors reported they were able to implant tiny…
Elderly Woman Rams Cellphone Store, Palm Pre Connection Questionable
Although the NBC Chicago News credits the elderly woman for being slightly too eager to get the Palm Pre, there doesn't…
How It Feels To Walk With Honda's Cyborg Legs
Few geeks haven't dreamt of one day taking on cyborg enhancements—me included. And today I did, thanks to two of…
Robots Will Be Taking Care of Your Grandma in Five Years
The Japanese government is planning to put robots to practical use in Japanese households in as soon as five years,…
Roll n' Pour: A Rocking Chair For Your Gallon Jugs
If you came here looking for rocking chairs for your gigantic boobs, sorry to disappoint. This gadget "takes the worry…
Mamoru-Kun Finds Misplaced Glasses and Slippers, I No Longer Fear Getting Old
I no longer fear getting old now that researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed Mamoru-Kun—a robot that…