Today @ PC World: "The 2005 Consumer Electronics Show doesn't officially begin until Thursday, but scores of scoop-thirsty journalists mobbed the opening press event Tuesday night at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Called CES Unveiled, it was an Arabian nights-themed showcase (okay, the sushi seemed sort of out of place, but the bartenders wore genie-esque costumes and there was a tarot reader) for several dozen diverse technologies and products, from HDTVs and assorted media players to a handset designed to afford an extra measure of security for an elderly or disabled person.
The latter, DesignTech's Guardian 911 Phone is basically a very small handset (with a single button instead of a keypad and a slot for a lanyard) with a wireless connection to a base station that in turn hooks up via a standard phone cord to a conventional phone jack. If you fall and you can't get up, you simply press the button on the phone and the base station dials 911 for you--but when an operator answers, you can talk over the handset. DesignTech says the handset can communicate with the base station from up to 800 feet away. The $140 device is due in April. "
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