Gentle cycle, no bleach.With Japan's population aging, the gadget-obsessed nation is finding new ways to care for the elderly. Take the new $50,000 human washing machine (storage) washing machine - An old-style 14-inch hard disk in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". by Sanyo shown above: With the user comfortably nestled on a rolling chair inside, and her head sticking out, the machine releases a dollop of "peach body shampoo." Then, the cleansing bubble action kicks in. "The bubbles are really comfortable," says Toshiko Shibahara, 89, who settled back to enjoy the wash and soak cycle at her nursing home in Machida recently. This spring, Japanese companies are also marketing a "robot suit," a motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. , battery-operated pair of pants In mathematics, a pair of pants is a simple two-dimensional surface resembling a pair of pants. In hyperbolic geometry, pairs of pants are sewn together, leg to leg, or leg to waist, to create Riemann surfaces of arbitrary genus. designed to help the aged move around on their own. Then there is the Wakamaru, a mobile, three-foot-high speaking robot equipped with two camera eyes. It is used by working people to keep an eye on to watch. - Shak. See also: Eye elderly parents at home. |
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