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by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2021 | Health
Last September Amazon announced Alexa Together, an elder care subscription service. On December 7, Amazon launched Alexa Together with a free, limited-time six-month trial. The same day, Vayyar Imaging announced its launch of Vayyar Care, the company’s touchless...
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by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2019 | Health
We first wrote about CarePredict in August 2014 when the company was running a crowdfunding campaign for its Tempo project. The project design was conceived as an aging-in-place solution for seniors who did not want to move from their homes to a care facility. Tempo...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2018 | Health
Virtual reality (VR) provides intense and fully engaging experiences, but augmented reality (AR) applications by definition allow people to carry on their daily routines while the technology adds something extra. We’ve written about work with AR at Stanford with...
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by Bruce Brown | September 26, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Aging in place” just recently received support from what some might consider an unlikely source: the United States House of Representatives. In an uncommon unanimous bipartisan vote, the U.S. House passed the Self-Drive Act, H.R. 3388 to boost the...
