KDDI’s looking for Japan’s elderly , or putting them under house arrest — it’s hard to inform which. Hitting stores this September within the land of human-assistive tech, the Kyocera designed Mi-Look is a simplified GPS-capable, mobile-monitoring system that puts you in command of your Luddite parents. The water-resistant device packs a strap-activated “I’ve fallen and that i can’t stand up” buzzer and springs in an appealing shade of hospital white, all while maintaining a tally of your folk’s whereabouts. Seems innocent enough, right? Well, it isn’t really as much as Mum and dad to opt-out of location tracking — the telephone does it automatically, emailing a listing of relatives with coordinates and distance traveled. And for that out of the ordinary Lindsay Lohan-lockdown touch, the charging port’s sensor cannot only count the variety of times your rents pass by, it’ll also answer calls automagically. Beginning to feel just a little bad about this? We do not blame you, but take note of the compassionate tech’s being targeted to patients with memory loss issues. Still, we now have a suspicion people with claims of a “stolen childhood” might possibly be using this as revenge. Payback’s a cellphone, apparently. Video demonstration after the break.
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