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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>If you can endure the first couple minutes of this, the third minute has some really interesting robotics notions, stuff I have been pondering for years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2011/05/10/feyerick.mit.age.lab.cnn?hpt=C2">http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2011/05/10/feyerick.mit.age.lab.cnn?hpt=C2</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s one I want to add, when we think of ways to help older people in our society. Go take some packaged food item from your freezer. Go ahead, pick anything in there. You need only two pieces of information: how hot and how long to cook, ja? There’s all this completely irrelevant information in huge font, none of which anyone gives a rat’s ass. But look at where it tells you the temperature to set the oven and how long to leave it in there. That part is in microfilm. They scream all this other nonsense, and whisper the only thing anyone cares about. I never had glasses, but now I need reading glasses. Most of the time I don’t have them on my person. So the freezer packages hide from me the only thing on that package I care about.<span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Look around, you will find a hundred examples of failing or refusing to put the relevant information in large font. On your tires, you care about exactly one piece of information, maximum pressure. That is in microfilm font. The tire brand is in huge raised letters. I don’t care about that, only the maximum pressure rating.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Continue on that theme. Hotel shower, two bottles, sometimes three, shampoo, conditioner, hand lotion. They all look pretty similar. In the shower, you don’t have your glasses. So why are the identifiers in microfilm? Why couldn’t they have a big first letter: <span style='font-size:72.0pt'>S</span>hampoo and <span style='font-size:72.0pt'>C</span>onditioner? And couldn’t they make the freezer packages with all their silly useless info on the front of the package, and the back of the package with nothing but big black and white lettering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span style='font-size:72.0pt'>450 for 35 min! </span><span style='font-size:36.0pt'>or</span><span style='font-size:72.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:72.0pt'>u-wave for 6 min!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Is that so hard? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>