Page 13 of Design for our future selves 2001 Awards by Helen Hamlyn Research Centre - Royal College of Art

11 A service that aims to bridge gaps between old and young through increasing technological inclusivity. Older people have been left out of the texting craze that has swept the younger generation. This project proposes a simple device that ports the functionality of the mobile phone into the television. The device is particularly geared towards texting, an area that is of particular relevance to the young and in which older generations should be able to participate. Calls are routed to the house phone and text messages are routed to a channel on the TV. Different channels can be allocated to different friends, and texts can be stored on channels. Philip Phelan/Computer Related Design textbox

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