CES 2024 Highlights Part 2: Personalized Digital Storytelling, Haptic Visual Guidance, Music Therapy, Legacy Documentation
This episode’s discussion features products that were exhibited at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show. These innovations support personalized communications through storytelling from a huge library of choices, provide a practical alternative for those with visual impairments, offer solace through music therapy to those with cognitive decline, and help older adults organize their treasured objects in a way that gives meaning to their importance.
This show (recorded on January 25, 2024) included the following guests in the order they presented:
Yoav Oren, Co-Founder and CEO of Zoog – a communications tool that makes you the star of children’s stories, greeting cards, and songs from an incredibly rich library of content designed to engage grandchildren, family, and friends. Choose your favorite story and get started! Exhibitor in the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.
Amos Miller, Founder and CEO of Guidance – the creators of Glide, a haptic guidance tool that offers an alternative to white canes or guide dogs for those who have lost their sight. Only a fraction of the 7 million Americans with significant vision loss utilize a guide dog or white cane, meaning that most vision-impaired people must depend on caregivers for help with getting to doctor’s appointments and other outside activities. Glide solves this challenge by expanding independence for those with sight disabilities. Exhibitor in the Eureka Park Accessibility Award Winners group.
Zachary McMahon, Co-Founder and CEO of Lucid – a “music as medicine” solution that provides music listening therapy for those already on their cognitive decline journey. It leverages AI, Cloud libraries, and effective computing for a better experience (i.e., utilization of “face mesh” technology allows the software to recognize user reactions and then connect these reactions with the music that is provided through the app). Exhibitor in the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.
Heather Nickerson, Co-Founder and CEO of Artifacts – a patented web and app-based platform that helps aging adults leave a legacy by capturing, preserving, and sharing the stories and meaning behind the objects you treasure in a safe and secure space. Exhibitor in the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.
All great innovations from caring companies!
Hosted by: Linda Sherman, Debbie Howard, Steve Ewell
Resources
Linda’s Zoog video on LinkedIn
About this Category
Our seven CES 2024 Highlights shows feature leaders from innovative agetech and/or accessibility companies who either exhibited and/or pitched at CES 2024 through the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion, the Agetech After Dark Pitch Competition (also from AARP), the Eureka Park Accessibility Award Winners group of five, or the CTA Foundation Pitch competition.
Listen to all of our CES Highlights shows on the Rethinking Aging Club podcast!
Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman
