Photo / Katie Godfrey/MIT AgeLab
In the AGNES suit, engineering student Nathaniel Salazar reaches for a product on the top of a grocery shelf in the AgeLab.
MIT AgeLab has designed AGNES: Age Gain Now Empathy System. AGNES is a bodysuit that gives the wearer first hand knowledge of the ability limitations of aging. The suit simulates aging characteristics of hearing, tactile sensations, motion limitations, and other ways our abilities are affected by the aging process.Go to MIT AgeLab web site to read about other lab projects.
http://web.mit.edu/agelab/index.shtml
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