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I find that the Rubix Cube is the best way to kill time. The way of playing it, makes the human mind think, thus it doesn’t really count as wasting time perhaps.

How to play:

Users will have to mix the square faces on the cube around first, or have a friend do it for you. You have solved the game when all faces of the same colour forms a entire face of the cube.

Perhaps, they can have the rubix cube on a digital platform. In it, as an application, users are able to reshuffle the square faces if they are stuck at it for too long. I think that this encourages the user more, as they are given a new opportunity.

TIME WASTED WHEN WAITING.

- What do people do when waiting?

- What do their actions tell people when waiting?

• On average a person spends an estimated 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday.

• 45 minutes a day. Everyday you waste time. Whether it?s filling up a tank of gas, waiting for an elevator, or waiting to download a program- we waste minutes. The average human wastes about 45 minutes a day in addition to any free time they have?

• 62 minutes a day. The below paragraph states: in 70 years, the average person spends at least 3 years waiting. I calculated that those 3 years would be approximately 4.3% of time spent waiting or 62 minutes a day.

Excerpt:

Waiting, an inevitable and even necessary aspect of human life is not something that most of us relish. We wait in lines: in order to purchase groceries; to be served at popular restaurants; to be attended to in a bank; at stop signs and traffic signals; at amusement parts; to see a play or film. We must also wait for flowers to grow and bloom; for babies to be born; for wounds to heal; for bread to rise and cheese to age; for children to mature; for friends to call; for love to deepen. Statisticians have estimated that in a lifetime of 70 years, the average person spends at least three years waiting!?

The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/sanchez/locked/cyclea/adventa/advent295a.htm

• According Wireless internet service provider BT Openzone, British business travellers spend 689,000 hours a month waiting in airports, with most spending an average of two to three hours each month doing so.

All of the above extracted from: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=439013

• How much time do Americans spend waiting in their whole life?

If a human lived for 65 years, they would spend about a little more than half, or a little less than half of their life just waiting.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_time_do_Americans_spend_waiting_in_their_whole_life#ixzz18C7kEcGY

Actions people have while waiting.

eg:

- People stand in front of the train when waiting to get on train

- Chit chatting while waiting for friends, etc.

- Hand actions when waiting ( crossed-arms, hands by the side, checking their phone ).

On average a person spends an estimated 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday.

The above are labels produced by Worldlabel.com. They provide labels with different colours with messages that can be customised for its purpose. Yes, i do agree that labels can help elderly live life easier getting things done, for example eating their medicine or things to take caution of. However, i feel that on the other hand, it does not help that much. The elderly would still have to remember the colour codes, and the font of the messages are too small. Since most elders have trouble reading without their specs, perhaps they can improve by upsizing the fonts.

The factors that affect the elderly :

HEALTH PROBLEMS

Memory problems

Memory lost with aging.As we grow older, we begin to lose brain cells a few at a time. Our body also makes less of the chemicals our brain cells need to work. Therefore, the older we get, the more these changes affects our memory.

-Taken from http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/seniors/common-older/124.html
 

Sleep problems

It is common in older people to face sleeping difficulties and everyone faces sleep problems as they grow older. However, it’s not true that one SHOULD face sleep problem as we grow older. As we age, many changes takes place. What changes is in the quality of the sleep. Older people cannot get into the stage four sleep (deep sleep), but still it does not apply to all.

-Taken from http://www.sleepdisordersguide.com/blog/sleepdisorders/sleep-problems-in-elderly/

EMOTIONAL PROBLEM

Disrespect from the younger generations

It’s a question as old as time. Sure there are disrespectful teens. But there are also disrespectful seniors. The reasons can vary greatly from poor upbringing to bad experiences with older folks. That’s why it’s important that we don’t judge an entire generation based upon the actions of a small percentage of its members.

-Taken from Rosebud, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080620141508AAcjYdL

Sacked from work

Perhaps, because the younger generations are often brought up with the ideas that they are the important role in the society, “the one that is eventually supposed to lead the world”. Thus with that kind of mindset it makes them feel that their on the upper hand, therefore, when working with elderly, they see the elders as “useless”, and not being efficient. On the other hand, with them being young, with their hormones flaring, they expect everything to be immediate.

Elder abuse

A term referring to any knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or any other person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to a vulnerable adult.

Physical Abuse – inflicting physical pain or injury on a senior, e.g. slapping, bruising, or restraining by physical or chemical means.

Sexual Abuse – non-consensual sexual contact of any kind.

Neglect – the failure by those responsible to provide food, shelter, health care, or protection for a vulnerable elder.

Exploitation – the illegal taking, misuse, or concealment of funds, property, or assets of a senior for someone else’s benefit.

Emotional Abuse – inflicting mental pain, anguish, or distress on an elder person through verbal or nonverbal acts, e.g. humiliating, intimidating, or threatening.
Abandonment – desertion of a vulnerable elder by anyone who has assumed the responsibility for care or custody of that person.

Self-neglect – characterized as the failure of a person to perform essential, self-care tasks and that such failure threatens his/her own health or safety.

Taken from http://www.aoa.gov/aoaroot/aoa_programs/elder_rights/ea_prevention/whatisea.aspx

This is the Creative Zen Moo Series. They are MP3 players in the shape of a cow and are feature-filled. They come in four different colors: pink, red, white and yellow. The Moo Plus, however, provides a few extra features, for example, an integrated speaker, FM radio, voice recorder and OLED screen. It also has a game built-in that you can control by means of the cow’s horns.

Looking at this series of zen moos, lights up the user’s day. Thanks to the OLED screen, it provides emotion to the player. However, i believe that it will only attract a certain group of audience as it is grouped into the “cute” category the moment i see it. While some people, would prefer a different touch, for example, comparing the zen moo with the ipod. In summary, it caters to different needs.

The Baby Child Shampoo Cap

Children are likely to struggle when bathing as the water are likely to splash into their eyes. Which will hurt even more when shampooing the baby as the water will inevitably make contact with the area around the eyes.

However, the child is most likely to pull away the cap the moment the parent puts it on for them. They might not be used to having something around their head, which causes discomfort. This might end up in the parents giving up on using the shampoo cap as much time is being wasted on putting on and pulling off the cap.

To improve on their product, they can offer different types of materials for the cap, as some materials causes discomfort to different individuals. They can even provide images of different cartoon characters to attract children. Or they can have “extensions” like a “clip-on” kind of gadget made of cartoon characters or animals to attract them, parents could even use it as a story-telling puppet too.

The IPHONE!

Think, why is iphone able to sell at this pipping hot rate? To my opinion, because no one have ever thought that we can actually use “one button” to control almost anything, before the “normal all button phones”. You may agree or disagree. Well, perhaps people might have bought it for its other functions such as the music player since apple sells ipods that also make money – and lots of it too. But so does sony erricson and some other companies, why is it so different?

It is the “one button” function that makes it all so “MAGICAL”. I had actually read an article introducing the iphone, 4 years back. I was overwhelmed by how much it was able to do, it was doing so much more than a phone! The graphics you get to see when u play a game on iphone, the quality of the music you get to hear out of your phone, what’s more, IT’S A TOUCH SCREEN. Can you feel how much it excites people who are using “all button phones” a few years back?

Observations made from people: they are getting more engrossed in their phones now, they almost never leave it. It also becomes some what of a companion for an adult. Any free time, they would just take out their iphone, and play. People are using the iphone for almost everything now. View videos, games, etc. Now people are going bonkers because they laugh, smile and get angry at the same time looking at their iphones, after finishing a game.

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