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Product Idea - "Big Print" Games

Posted by K Krasnow Waterman on Mon, Jan 07, 2008 @ 09:01 AM

This year, someone close to me spent quite a long time in the hospital and in bed afterwards. One of the things I noticed was the frustration with passing long days when medication and pain make it too hard to read. Since many people in this condition are older, with some decline in vision and small motor dexterity, I decided what would really help would be a magazine-sized GameBoy type device. It should weigh about the same as a magazine (sick people are weak) and have a big screen and big buttons. There should be a number of games that don't require quick reflexes and where the sound can be turned off. Think solitaire and BubbleBreaker, not SuperMario or Grand Theft Auto.

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