During this holiday week, we’d like to share some of our earlier posts from the EngAGE Blog, in case you missed seeing them. This one is from May 20, 2011.
NPR reporter Jennifer Ludden tried on a special suit developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab to find out what physical problems most older people have to cope with daily. It was an eye-opening experience for her.
“[The suit] is meant to help 20-something engineers feel the aches and limitations of an average 75-year-old so they can design better products for them. Think of it as working like those outfits Superheroes put on, only backward.”
Click here for the NPR story. Click here for a CNN video of the suit in action.
