[ExI] geezer guard

[William Flynn Wallace]

I'll bet the falling man didn't even use a walker.  Or, like me, was given
too high a dose of blood pressure medicine.  bill w

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 10:37 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> BillK via extropy-chat
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> >....Yes, you can buy these nowadays...
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> One example:   <https://senior.helite.com/en/>
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> BillK
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> COOL!
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> Sheesh I shoulda looked around before I posted the question.
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> Thanks BillK.
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> Ok I viewed the video BillK.  This gets us most of the way there.  The
> most dangerous time for seniors is in the winter when the sidewalks are
> icy.  In those times an airbag overcoat would work.  It can have the bags
> pop up from below, we could even make a cap device with airbags to cushion
> the head in a fall.
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> The femoral neck is a particularly vulnerable place.  As the video shows,
> the natural reaction is to extend the knee to cushion a fall, but that has
> the knee striking first, which overstresses the femoral neck.  If that
> breaks in an elderly person, they are wheelchair jockeys for a long time.
> Without exercise from walking, the problem snowballs.  If we had airbag
> boots which would inflate upwards, operated by Bluetooth command from
> accelerometers at the shoulders, that could pad the knees enough to protect
> the femoral neck.
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> Aside: since we have been talking about rockets landing feet first and all
> that cool stuff, the advances in accelerometers in the past 15 yrs made all
> those sexy control systems possible.  They are small, fast, cheap,
> reliable, oh they get us control freaks all turned on (in a good way (we
> have a secret website for control system porno (lots of video of Musk's
> thrust vector control actuators dancing about steering that rocket right
> down to a pinpoint landing (oh that is really a major turn-on (those
> controllers put the X in SpaceX.))))
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> We still haven't found all the cool interesting applications those little
> solid-state rate gyros and three-axis accelerometers enabled.  This looks
> like another good one.
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> spike
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