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Gps Enabled Walkers For Elderly Patients

Posted on February 29, 2008 with 5294 views

Gps Enabled Walkers For Elderly Patients

The wonders of GPS have made for increased navigation gadgets, specifically on mobile phones and attached to cars and other forms of transport.

GPS is now being utilised to assist elderly patients, in an effort to improve their sense of awareness and simplify their efforts to move around without feeling lost or running into problems. The gadget itself is a walker attached with a GPS system which acts as a guide to help increase their mobility in a secure manner. The device is under tests in Nursing Centres, and is a product of a student project, yet the technical details still a bet sketchy.

The GPS Walker makes use of a Wi-Fi based system to navigate patients around using five buttons and large arrows to make it easier on the user. The arrows, as you would expect, indicate the direction to take.

The devices have been in operation in one Nursing Centre for many months, as experiments and tests are being continually carried out and usability observed. It is unlikely that these will become mainstream, but for certain individuals looking to move about when before it was a hazard, it may just be what they've been waiting for.






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  • quiz man says on 12th April 2010Awesome idea woot woot
  • Ryan says on 15th January 2010Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. That sucks
  • anonymous says on 11th December 2009Seems like a great invemtion
  • lucy says on 12th January 2009Like that also can oo but it is really a good invention! Grin
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  • nerurenu says on 11th October 2008Lol
  • Anonymous says on 24th April 2008Cool Grin great as 4 a 3year old

  • Sinister says on 27th March 2008It's the best gadget invented in our time.
  • cutiegal says on 17th March 2008Cooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    (not for young ppl)

  • Anonymous says on 14th March 2008Your message here.. Embarrassed
  • priya says on 7th March 2008Excellent invention I would say
  • Luigi Capp says on 3rd March 2008What happens if they can't remember where they wanted to go?
  • Anonymous says on 3rd March 2008Genius!!!!
  • Anonymous says on 2nd March 2008This is a great invention for aged people Grin Smile

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