Nexus TV offers an assistive technology solution, enhancing peoples’ lives by providing a variety of interactive, fun applications. It combines information with entertainment to create a mixture of support and socializing through the television.
The user-friendly technology encourages self-management and provides support, giving 100+ channels of digital television with talking programme guides, video calls and telephone including contact with medical and care professionals, medicine reminders, controlled Internet access, email access, slideshow of family pictures, community notice boards as well as remote door answering facilities. All this is available on the living room TV using a simple remote control designed for the elderly and impaired.
Nexus TV is an enhanced set-top box (STB) based solution where all the features and functions are accessed through the television and controlled by an simple remote control. A television offers familiarity and ease of use as a form of technology that almost 90% of UK household’s have. Individuals that would like to benefit from the variety of informative and educational applications available only need to purchase the low cost set-top box and connection to broadband Internet.
Nexus TV is an accessible TV solution, that will be built on a familiar piece of technology, the television, something that the user is already experienced in using.
1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8123997.stm
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