In his famous poem, Shakespeare, charts the Seven Ages of Man from childhood to second childhood. What the Bard calls Ages Two and Six — the 'whining schoolboy...creeping unwillingly to school' and the 'lean and slippered pantaloon…with spectacles on nose' — are today the target of some pretty compelling products. We check out two of them.
Keep a smart eye on your kid!
The Jelly kids smart watch buys parents some peace of mind.
Kids, driven by peer pressure, demand a phone even in pre-school. Now you can satisfy the child and buy yourself some peace of mind at the same time. The Jelly Kids Watch from Riversong, lets parents track their child via GPS and alerts them if he or she strays outside a geo-fence you have set up. It does this by pairing the parent's phone with the child's watch.
The watch comes in funky colours and has a 1.22-inch touch screen with a single SIM and 64MB of storage.
You can talk to your child or send a message — and also set a bar on who can be called from the Jelly watch. It may disturb privacy advocates that the watch lets parents discreetly overhear what the child is saying.... but in these unsafe times, many parents may be willing to put the kid's safety above privacy. It costs Rs 2,499 at Flipkart and Amazon.
Senior-friendly phone
The Easyfone Grand won't intimidate older users.
As fingers become arthritic and eyesight dims, the modern touch-based smart phone offers too many challenges. Many seniors long for the uncomplicated mobile phones of an earlier era — and Seniorworld, a company which caters to senior citizens, gives them just that.
The Easyfone Grand is a chunky and easy-to-hold phone, with a large physical keypad and a 2.3-inch screen on which you can display the photos of eight most used contact numbers. Helpfully, the phone can be set up remotely, i.e. you can gift it to grand dad and set it up for him from your own phone, creating list of favourite contacts, setting up alarms or an SMS to remind when it is time to take medicine. There is a large SOS button on the back which sets off a loud alarm and also alerts a select list of phone numbers. The phone includes FM Radio and a 2MP camera.
Thought has gone into small things: the makers provide a nice cradle to recharge the battery without having to look for wires and plugs. For me the most useful feature was the ability to amplify sound — great for so many seniors who are a bit hard of hearing but don't use a hearing aid.
At Rs 3,999, this is a great solution for the older people in your home.
—IndiaTechOnline
