System For Seniors Allows Handwritten Emails
December 28, 2009 | By Kim Walker
Celery is service designed for people who want to keep in touch with friends and relatives but don’t use computers (yes, there are many).
The premise of Celery is that “interpersonal communication is as vital to human life as air, shelter, water and food. When we are disconnected from family and friends, when our social interactions decline, our lives begin to lose meaning. Simple, two-way communication system supports closely knit, multigenerational relationships. And when we communicate with loved ones, our hearts are nourished and our spirits restored”.
A slick bit of PR maybe, but here’s a report about how one grandmother uses Celery to Tweet to and from her family:
According to their website, Celery has been specifically designed to be effortless for seniors:
- No additional phone line required
- No Internet access required
- No special software
- Celery can email any printed document
- Auto-prints incoming email and high-quality color photos in real-time
- Makes color copies
- Sends and receives regular faxes
- Spam control guarantee
- Customers can set “Do Not Disturb” hours
- Automatically receives messages if answering machine present
- Vacation mode stores messages over extended periods
- Celery can receive and print text, HTML based email messages, and JPEG, RTF, GIF, PNG, TIFF or PDF email attachments
- Supports RSS feeds: blogs, Twitter and facebook
- 30-day risk free guarantee
Costs around US$9 per month excluding the cost of the fax machine.
This is clearly a clever, and socially applaudable idea for older people (the ones who missed the digital age).
