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- falcolas 5y agoI firmly believe there is a market for this. Please, someone, make it a commercial reality.
- newsclues 5y agoI think it needs a scanner to turn letters into txt/email
- falcolas 5y agoEven a camera on the edge could work pretty well with the right image transformations. A printer driver, that could optionally print "the last photo received" to an inkjet printer, would be another great addition for a doting grandparent.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoDo you really want it to print scammy ads once in a five messages?
- selljamhere 5y agoThis is brilliant. It can help connect an entire generation that might otherwise be “left behind” in a thoughtful and meaningful way.
- zingplex 5y agoThe use of an XLR cord is a stroke of genius. Having the state of the machine clearly visible and manipulatable by people with fine motor problems solves 90% of the problems I encounter when volunteering with the elderly.
- mdtusz 5y agoIt appears to be using an 1/4" patch cord, not an XLR cable! XLR is the cable (and connector) with 3 pins as is used with microphones and carries a balanced signal - 1 leg is ground, then the other two are inverted signals to minimize noise.
- zingplex 5y agoYeah, you're right. My brain made the association between XLR and generic audio cables without thinking.
- Naracion 5y agoA single 3 pin XLR will only carry balanced signal for a single channel (which this might as well be). For stereo you either need two 3 pin XLR (as is the case for interconnects in high end or pro audio) or a single 4 pin XLR (as is found in high end headphones). The way it works is so simple yet genius. Say the main signal is +x. Then one of the pins will carry -x. At the end, the receiving end will invert -x and add the two signals together. This gives x + -(-x) = 2x. So it gives twice the power. Great. So what? Well, if you introduce noise into the chain, it gets canceled out! Pin 1: X + noise Pin 2: -X + noise Final = pin1-pin2 = X+noise + X-noise = 2X Brilliant.
- OJFord 5y agoBrilliant yes, but lest anyone think it's XLR-specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_signaling I assume it's also the reason for 'bi-wire' speakers, while we're on audio gear.
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- Grakel 5y agoI wonder if it's harder to voice-to-text your average Yaya.
- dqpb 5y agoI want one. In fact I want there to be a whole line of quirky hardware interfaces to do simple things that we usually use a phone or computer for. They’re fun and I think kids would love them.
- weasel_words 5y agoAgreed! Give it a killer steampunk look and you've got yourself a win!
- fudged71 5y agoThere was a kids “radio” project with a similar ethos posted a couple weeks ago!
- bradfitz 5y agoI built this for my ~1.5 year old who loves music: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1341470798825984001 https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1341470798825984001 .... a Raspberry Pi keyboard (no screen) with stickers on the keys that controls the Sonos.
- anotherevan 5y agoI'm following his twitter account just to catch the instructable he's promised to write.
- jkestner 5y agoMy (old) entry is a nightstand that prints photos you email it, and emails documents put into the drawer: https://johnkestner.com/tableau/ https://johnkestner.com/tableau/ I had started by giving my great aunt a 3com Audrey. She loved this internet appliance, but it couldn't keep up, crashing when she got an email over 1MB.
- tfsh 5y agoI really appreciate the coverging of retro machines with modern APIs. I've been working on a smart home solution (automated blinds, etc), I really want to build a control panel with lots of physical switches like the Yayagram now
- sdflhasjd 5y agoWhen I'm asked to find some phone or other technology for an elderly relative, I'm always concerned about the usability of devices. A lot of companies and people don't realy appreciate how much training is really needed to operate even the simplest of mobile phones. I've not really seen any solutions other than making buttons bigger and reducing menu options, I'm sure these are great for those with deteriorating eyesight, but they aren't really offering anything for a person who has never used a smartphone before. The real solution has to be usable by someone who has never operated _any_ modern technology - It has to be so simple you could maybe even train a dog to use. An idea of mine is to have a bank of "walkie talkies" - one for each person you wish to speak to. And this problem is always growing; my parents haven't retired yet, but even they are struggling to use today's on-demand television. What will happen when digital terrestrial TV is shut down and they have to learn to use whatever new interface is on the successor to the inevitably cancelled Android TV.
- ISL 5y agoThe biggest problem we have faced, unfortunately, is the proliferation of modern security features. Chromebooks are awesome in many ways for the elderly, but the fact that you can't disable password entry at startup has been a dealbreaker for my aging father. He can't type easily and is beginning to struggle with passwords. Paradoxically, this means that he's still running his Ubuntu laptop (he has been using UNIX systems since a DEC Alpha) but getting left behind on a lot of accessibility features and has minimal support from nursing-home staff. Struggling with passwords has also meant that he is endlessly resetting passwords or creating new accounts, compounding confusion. It is a tricky set of problems, with no easy answers.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoI have the same problem with my parents and I initially thought the Windows 10 pin screen was quite good for this. You only need 4 numbers, I set it to my birthdate and it's made things somewhat easier for them. That was until my mom phoned me telling me her keyboard was broken. Took me a while to diagnose that she was trying to enter letters into the pin-field and it gave no indication that you weren't supposed to do that, it just didn't input any characters. Also turns out the Windows account metaphor has gotten really confusing since they introduced microsoft accounts that are both local and online but don't necessarily share the same characteristics and now you have like 3 different passwords for the single "account" concept.
- thirdlamp 5y agoOn top of the points others in this thread have made, I think this is also a lesson for UX designers. It's really obvious how the Yayagram works and how to use it and this is how our UX should be.
- musingsole 5y agoNUIs: iNuitive User Interfaces used to be (perhaps still is) an interesting design philosophy in the UX space. The goal being to build a system that a brand new user fresh off the boat could walk up to and intuit what the system could do and how to manipulate the system to solve their problems. Though this is complicated by our thought patterns and habits being altered by just interacting with computer systems. So, it becomes hard to pinpoint exactly what "intuitive" means to an audience as wide as the entire population or even small groups like "university students". Thinking this way becomes incredibly important as systems move from dedicated devices further into coordinated actions of ubiquitous devices.
- hervature 5y agoDoes NUI not stand for Natural User Interface? iNtuitive is definitely Non-intuitive.
- musingsole 5y agoProbably an attempt at the time to expand the scope of the acronym as the natural user interface concepts are older.
- paxys 5y agoWhat's the lesson here? Yes this is a simple UI, but if put next to an iPhone which one will a billion+ people pick?
- operator-name 5y agoAlthough the iPhone is a more popular device it doesn't fill the accessability needs of all users. Just as many countries have disabilities acts for manufacturing and civil engineering, shouldn't technology and platforms have something similar?
- ape4 5y agoIs there a video of a gramma using it?
- 1970-01-01 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#Obsolescence_of_teleprinters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#Obsolescence_of_te...
- nanna 5y agoThis is cute but bearing in mind most of today's grandparents (at least in the West) have had decades of using computers professionally and at least a good few years using tablets and smartphones, I really think the pitch should be directed elsewhere. I especially don't think they would appreciate a 'telegram' feature! Also, I know it's not meant literally, but its genderisation as 'granny' is a really problematic cliche that I wish tech folk would stop repeating.
- nanna 5y agoLook, let me put this another way, since I'm being downvoted. I think my 70 year old mum, who is a grandma, would find it patronising and sexist to have a device pitched to her as an easier to use version of the iPad she is a bloody master of in every way. She's far more adapt than my dad, bless him, but even he can use WhatsApp and the like fine after being shown.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI was about to say the same thing, but it seems you got flak for it. Here in the UK, a large percentage of 70+ year olds (my Father is 75) are totally au fait with mobile phones, computers and tablets. In fact a lot of older folk have moved to large tablets as it's easier to zoom the text and scroll around for people their age. Maybe it's a country-by-country thing?
- flobosg 5y agoFWIW, the author’s grandmother is twenty-six years older than your mother: https://twitter.com/mrcatacroquer/status/1386318879572570112 https://twitter.com/mrcatacroquer/status/1386318879572570112 > My Yaya is Felisa Romano Martin, from Segovia, 96 years old, and she is the best Yaya in the world.
- fauria 5y agoThat tweet goes along with an impressive picture of the Alcázar de Segovia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site medieval castle: https://www.eladelantado.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ALc%C3%A1zar-de-Segovia-Nevado-1392x927.jpg https://www.eladelantado.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ALc%... [1] More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A1zar_of_Segovia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A1zar_of_Segovia [1] Source (Spanish): https://www.eladelantado.com/segovia/la-imagen-segovia/ https://www.eladelantado.com/segovia/la-imagen-segovia/
- zackbloom 5y agoI work on a company that is squarely targeted at the market of people who don't have Internet. Nearly 10% of Americans don't have Internet, the vast majority are older. During COVID, at least in my family, it was pretty stark. My grandmother didn't see a video of my nephews for essentially a year, as she was quarantined and doesn't know how to use a smartphone or tablet. She also doesn't have WiFi, so 'smart frames' and the like aren't an option (nor is this device unfortunately). It's a real market of real people.
- tectonic 5y agoAre there LTE “dumb smart frames”?
- zackbloom 5y agoNot to my knowledge. If anyone is interested in building one get in touch, it would be a fun thing to build. Right now we let people to mail videos [1]. Think a greeting card, but which plays your home movies. [1] - https://sendheirloom.com https://sendheirloom.com
- samjbobb 5y agoHey this is cool! Looks like a great idea for an underserved market, well executed.
- spookyuser 5y agoThis is incredible, I wish there were more analogue centered devices for older people with both hearing and vision loss. The combination makes it virtually impossible to interact with any well designed software because it's all touch screen and way too complicated. But also makes it impossible to interact with the limited number of phones with analogue buttons because they are usually feature phones with even worse designed software than touchscreen phones and at that point the analogue buttons don't really help at all. So yeah this is truly incredible.
- lupire 5y agoWould a touch screen monitor with a clean UI be so hard to use?
- coolspot 5y agoSee also: ad-free smart TV for elders - https://m.habr.com/ru/post/511060/ https://m.habr.com/ru/post/511060/
- dang 5y agoDoes anybody work on translating the best habr.com articles into English?
- andreygrehov 5y agoI used to do it. You might remember there was a project called kukuruku.co – quite a lot of submissions from that domain were on the front page of HN. But, it was super hard for me to monetize the project, so I abandoned it. Fun fact: the founder of Habr wanted to buy the project from me, but I declined his offer.
- grok22 5y agoSomething like this needs to be made commercial at a reasonable price-point :-(. It will help bridge the technology gap between aged grand-parents who aren't comfortable with modern tech and up-to-date grand-kids who live in far-flung places and are more comfortable with the newer methods of communication. Also connecting to a network must be made transparent somehow in these devices like Kindle's WhisperNet.
- zackbloom 5y agoI would say the single biggest issue right now is the cost of an LTE modem and service. Cursory research shows a fully integrated modem is on the order of $44 at small quantities. Obviously cell phone manufactures get that number way down but they also manufacture at very high quantities. It looks like service is on the order of $0.50 per month per device, plus $0.33 per MB. That's not prohibitive, but it would mean the device would likely have to have a subscription of at least $19 a month.
- anxrn 5y agoIs LTE necessary? It seems that 3G or even 2G might suffice, and might be cheaper?
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI would assume those networks will be shut down sooner rather than later in most places. I think 2G already is gone in the US.
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- throwaway823882 5y agoYaya: "Oh what the hell has this crazy kid made now..."
- roughly 5y agoThis is such a beautiful project!
- aimor 5y agoThis is really neat. It has me thinking about my own grandma who loves getting pictures on her phone, but is that the best interface for her? What if I could send pictures and they'd automatically print out, I think she'd like that even more. I think it's funny because that's a pretty easy thing to set up, but I never considered it until now.
- reaperducer 5y agoWhat if I could send pictures and they'd automatically print out I did that for my mother with a surplus Powerbook and an inkjet printer. I'd just VNC in and print out the picture. Worked great for a while. Then one day she dumped a cup of coffee into the keyboard. "Oh, it's no big deal. I'm sure you do it all the time," she said. End of pictures.
- throwaway316943 5y agoCombine this with the email based picture display and you’re set. Just an rPi and an inkjet.
- lupire 5y agoYou'd need to constantly clean the printer and refill/change ink. Better to use print and mail service.
- ALittleLight 5y agoMy thoughts are that the font should be larger for the names and and for the text output. Ideally include pictures next to the names, so even if it's hard to read, it would be easy to spot who you want to connect to. I didn't see it, but you also probably need a notification to reload the paper roll as you come to the end. This could be a warning LED and it could also be a warning text sent to some or all of the people on the other end of the YAYAGRAM that Yaya is running low on paper, can you help her reload?
- eric_h 5y ago> you also probably need a notification to reload the paper roll as you come to the end. I think you just buy the paper rolls that are pink for the last (innermost) few feet of the roll.
- Breza 5y agoKnowing some of the older people in my family, I'd be an hour into a phone call when they'd casually mention that their message box hasn't worked for the past month since it ran out of paper but they didn't want to be a bother and make me come over and fix it.
- lupire 5y agoAdd software to count how much paper is used and remind the maintenance tech when it's time for refill.
- Thorentis 5y agoThis is brilliant. A single device that does one thing, and does it (hopefully) really well. It is a much needed antidote to the "all in one" apps we are seeing more and more of. Touchscreens really embody the "all in one" design pattern, and lend themselves to those types of apps. That's after all what they're intended for: interchangeable interfaces. Nice to see a modern service being used with an analog interface.
- chobytes 5y agoBothers me to no end how many once simple devices have gone this way. I feel like I would be willing to pay more for simpler appliances at this point.
- jdgoesmarching 5y agoTouchscreens and tiny computers are cheap and getting cheaper. It’s easier than manufacturing specific components for “simpler” devices. I just wish companies would stop pretending like it’s an advanced feature rather than a cost-cutting measure.
- danlugo92 5y agoReason I will never buy a Tesla. But everyone else is jumping into the touchscreen mania too sadly. A touchscreen in a car jeez.
- davegauer 5y agoIn my garage are a Tesla and a Subaru. They're both the first new cars I've ever owned and both are far more technologically advanced than anything I'd previously driven. So I'm a great guinea pig for testing modern car UIs. The great thing about the Tesla is that the important things: park/drive/reverse etc. are all motions on a physical stalk. The rest is done on the touchscreen which has the advantage of being able to have full-text labels and clear submenus for less often used options. It's much more discoverable. The other great thing is that the touchscreen interface has the opportunity to GET BETTER over time. The Subaru has more buttons and dials than any other machine I've ever owned. It's borderline aircraft cockpit. There is a physical control for darn near EVERYTHING. I love physical controls once you learn them, but figuring out the cryptic symbols for a button while driving is no safer than navigating a touchscreen. I think there's a sweet spot somewhere between the two: the Tesla has too few physical controls and the Subaru has too many (though that opinion may change over time as I learn them all). I also wonder about interface wear and tear tradeoffs as both vehicles get older. Don't forget that we also develop muscle memory for touch screens, which is why it takes a week to adjust when a popular phone app (or the whole OS) changes the position of an on-screen control.
- re 5y agoI think it's amusing to imagine what the fifty-years-from-now equivalent of this might look like. "I built a fake 'cell phone' that lets my grandpa 'text' me, it translates the words into thoughts and beams them directly to my neural implant."
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoProbably be a web service that does that for you. Like those old fax webservices.
- kaspm 5y agoMy bank sometimes requires me to "fax" documents to them using a phone number. I download their electronic documents, upload them to my esigning programing, esign them, then e-fax them using the esigning program to their fax "number". I'm sure on their end, they download the electronic "fax" and put it directly into their document system. There is no paper at any point in this process.
- Breza 5y agoI was impressed when I bought a car for the first time and the dealership had a gigantic touchscreen for reviewing and signing all the paperwork. Took away the needless cycle of printing and scanning papers in an otherwise digital workflow.
- lupire 5y agoWhat's the point of esign if they are never going to confirm it with the esign service?
- khazhoux 5y agoI only wish it weren't named Yaya, as I hate promoting the idea that old women are the pinnacle of technological ineptness. I know that wasn't the intent, but still. It's unfortunately a common expression to say "This product is so easy, even your grandmother can use it!" As if the only group more incompetent than old people, is old women (or, if you prefer, the only group more incompetent than women are old women). I really think it's time to consciously move away from this outdated meme.
- bozzcl 5y agoIf you know that wasn't the intent, why make this complaint at all?
- gordian-mind 5y agoThis type of bland complaint is just a common way nowadays to signal that you are part of the In-group, that cares about people.
- khazhoux 5y agoI can assure you that I am not luxuriating in the benefits and privileges of this fabled "In-group", and that I'm only trying to draw attention to the fact that the common expression "So simple even your grandmother will understand it" is demeaning to both women and old people. Clearly you don't care about that, so there's little for us to discuss.
- khazhoux 5y agoWhen people use the expression "So simple even your grandmother will understand it" I don't think they are trying to insult anyone. But... it is an insult, whether it was meant that way or not.
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- bozzcl 5y agoSometimes, the fact that my parents and grandmother are so good with technology disappoints me because I have fewer chances of building cool stuff like this.
- roamingryan 5y agoI built out a simple "technology access" solution for my late grandma about five years ago. It was just some simple scripts running on a raspberry pi. The scripts would fetch emails from a gmail account, extract the attachments, and display them on loop. The subject line of the email, sender and the date were overlayed on the image. The advantage over those IoT picture frame products was that I could use any display I wanted. A cheap 32" TV was perfect. This was key as her vision degraded. The approach also allowed anyone in the family with email to send her photos, no proprietary apps or accounts required. She passed away mid-Covid and I didn't get to see her in her final 6 months, but she always bragged of her "picture machine." I think she was the envy of many of her fellow nursing home residents!
- FredPret 5y agoI wish I could buy and ship this to my mom. Don’t have the time to set it up and she lives far away.
- seniorivn 5y agoyou can hire some local student to do the job, as long as you know how it should be done, any tech savvy highschool/uni student should do
- punnerud 5y agoI have bought this for my grandma that live on a senior home: https://www.noisolation.com/global/komp https://www.noisolation.com/global/komp Just one knob to turn it on and adjust the sound. My other grandma have an iPhone that she barely know how to use (she still have the old one on the wall she love). I first call her, than tell her to tap the green button if she she want to use camera (switch to FaceTime). This works great for us to keep contact. Though both of this is solutions only allow us to initiate the contact. Here the Yayagram is brilliant!
- FredPret 5y agoThank you! Will check it out. One knob only sounds about right for my parents!
- SavantIdiot 5y agoTwo interesting things about this project. 1. Just about 100% of the code already existed, it just needed to be stuck together in a classy box. That's pretty damn cool: there's no need to re-invent the wheel for some advanced components, and it means more sophisticated ideas can be built quickly. 2. This has been posted 11 times on HN and it finally went viral: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=yayagram https://hn.algolia.com/?q=yayagram
- smnrchrds 5y agoIs there a way to create something like this for video calls? An always-on device that can make calls through Skype or similar? Or are the protocols too closed and apps too unavailable to make it possible.
- layer8 5y agoYou could probably use an iPad in kiosk mode (single app always shown) mounted with an always-connected charger.
- fudged71 5y agoThere have been more than one startup with the idea that an iPad should sit on your wall as a window into another person’s house.
- wikibob 5y agoAlexa devices have auto answer mode
- devoutsalsa 5y agoBack in the 2000s, my mother & grandmother communicated via fax because grandma didn't have a computer. This makes sense to me!
- kenorb 5y agoCongrats on your project, looks promising! Thanks for using tg fork. If you've any new changes, feel free to send PRs.
- abraae 5y agoThere are so many beautiful UI hints with this. 1) The shape of the microphone positively urges the user to lean forward and talk into it. Compare to a modern smartphone where it's not at all obvious where the microphone is. 2) The giant red button next to the microphone positively scream "press me to talk", and it's obvious that the red LED will light up when the button is pressed. Removes any "is this thing on"? thoughts. 3) The patch panel is quite genius, it's obvious how to target the desired recipient. One might quibble with the plug systenm, but using the large style plugs is a great choice for unsteady hands. These plugs have more leeway if not plugged all the way in than micro style plugs. 4) The recipients are all in a line, and due to the design, one of them is always selected. That removes any "did I select someone", sa I sometimes experience when sharing on my phone to some social network. 5) What's more, the last selected recipient is persistent, even in the event of a power cut. 6) Thermal printer is genius. Yaya can tear off important messages and carry them with her.
- cellularmitosis 5y ago> These plugs have more leeway if not plugged all the way in than micro style plugs Oh, that's a great point! You could route a simple on/off signal across only the sleeve, and not even use the tip at all. Even if it were only half-way inserted, it would still work. Edit: looking more closely at the photos, it appears that's exactly what he's doing, neat!
- jfroma 5y agoI feel sad using homepods as intercom... I wish I had a button now. Unfortunately, I think Apple hasn’t open this api yet
- chrisweekly 5y agoThis is so great. I'm really moved by the author's empathy and love. Those of you who are lucky enough to still have grandparents (or parents for that matter), please take inspiration to connect with them while you still can. Life is short, and nothing in the world can take the place of family.
- randomdrake 5y agoFor folks interested in technology that helps to keep our less-technological relatives connected, I highly recommend NanaGram[0]. I’ve been a paid user since the early days and it’s an absolute delight to my grandmother every single time it shows up during the month. 1. Register and get a unique phone number to text 2. Start sending photos to that number via SMS 3. Share the phone number with other relatives and tell them to do the same 4. Grandparent gets envelope of printed photos just like the ones filling their old albums on the shelves It really is that easy. It’s affordable. And the founder is very responsive to any support inquiries. It was a service I always wanted to build myself but never had the time. I’m very grateful for it. [0] - https://nanagram.co/ https://nanagram.co/
- aacook 5y agoNanaGram founder here. (I use F5bot to get alerts of mentions.) Saw Yayagram the other day and love it! My grandma was a telephone operator for decades and would have been over-the-moon using Yayagram. This is a truly underserved space. The elderly lead increasingly isolated lives and products that increase social connections improve quality of life and make people smile! Thanks for the NanaGram shout-out. I'm grateful for your gratefulness and to be able to work on NanaGram. Happy to answer any question anyone has.
- nojs 5y agoThis is amazing. I can think of several relatives who would absolutely love something like this over struggling with a touchscreen.
- chris_engel 5y agoThis is the reason why I like Telegram so much more than WhatsApp. The fact theres an API and the possibility to write bots makes all the difference.
- sedatk 5y agoThis is brilliant, but maybe I missed it: what happens when yaya's run out of thermal paper? It feels like the Achilles' heel of this design. Perhaps, a blinking LED for out of paper situation? Can yaya change the roll herself? I'm concerned about it because I loved this project in all aspects, I want it to be perfect.
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- askvictor 5y agoPerhaps (depending on yaya's ability), it could detect a low-paper situation, and send a message to the creator, or perhaps order a new one directly?
- sedatk 5y agoYeah, I hope the creator did something like that. I'd be sad if the thing would just stopped printing and yaya would wonder why there were no replies to her messages anymore.
- pedrogpimenta 5y agoThese rolls usually have red lines on the last bit to warn you that it is getting to the end. Like this: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mKXo5QBML._AC_SL1000_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mKXo5QBML...
- sedatk 5y agoThanks, that’s much better. I hope yaya notices it and lets her grandson now.
- hombre_fatal 5y agoSuper cute and well executed project. But after imagining how this would work in practice, my loved ones sitting down to talk to a box and getting text responses some indefinite time later to recorded messages they might not even remember the contents of (I wouldn't), it seems comically sad. It makes me think of how unsatisfying it is to attempt any real convo over SMS. Then again, I'm sure it's a supplement to the weekly or monthly video calls they're already having where yaya gets to see and hear their grandkids. But I can't shake the pathetic vision of yaya recording a 10min voice message and then, three days later, getting "school is good thx yaya!!".
- davchana 5y agoHow about using some service to convert Grandma's speech to text, sending it as text to gkid, then gkid replies to it by "quoting it" (you long press the message, & then type reply, reply shows the original message too). Then printer prints both messages as bubbles or like paragraphs.
- Breza 5y agoThat's on the grandchildren. They need to learn how to reply to Yaya. "kthnx" won't work, but this will: "Hi Yaya, I just listened to your message about my first day back in school. Yes, I'm a little nervous about being around so many people after a year at home, but mostly I'm excited about seeing my friends again and getting to play sports. How are you? I hope your knee isn't acting up and you can get outside today. It looks like the weather is beautiful over there right now."
- tyingq 5y agoThat's really awesome. Then this comment: "Is there any other way than thermal paper? It can't be processed like normal paper after usage. So it's quite bad for the Environment." Heh. I wonder how much paper he thinks Yaya is using per annum.
- speedgoose 5y agoMy grandmother uses a smartphone since the first Samsung Galaxy Note, the first smartphone to have a big screen about 10 years ago. She is doing perfectly fine to receive and send text messages, photos, videos, and give audio and video calls.
- dakial1 5y agoSince I had kids, I've started using Google Photos automatic Albums (with face recognition) to share photos of my kids to the family (really out of my lazyness of sending it through whatsapp groups). My wife's grandma (86 y/o) is in that shared group and see the photos e-v-e-r-y-d-a-y. Recently she shared how important it is to her to see her grandgrandkids videos and photos during these lockdown times. There is all this talk abou how tecnology keep us apart but there are many use cases, like this, where it helps brings us together. In the past (grand)grandparents would stay months or even years without seeing and following their families lifes.
- sgt 5y agoCool! So.. as much as I love the Yayagram, I think people underestimate the elderly and willingness to learn something that "makes sense" and technology that does not work against them. To give an example, my 103 year old grandmother didn't know a thing about computers until we gave her an iPad about 6 years ago. Now she's available on FaceTime and e-mails. For some reason she doesn't find messaging interesting. She has a variety of hobbies (like knitting, reading and TV) but she checks the news both in paper format and on the iPad. I am actually so thankful that iOS is relatively easy to understand and that Apple spent those millions on UX, because it could easily have gone the other way with technology working against her.
- ingend88 5y agoCan I buy this or would like to make one in partnership with someone!
- hilmanski 5y agoreally inspiring