In this digital age, we can do almost anything by computer, virtually, and dieting or good nutrition is no exception. No, you won't lose weight by hanging out on the computer, but there are really good resources available online. Digital dieting is quite possible, and you can lose weight sort of virtually. It's pretty typical for baby boomers to be nutritionally reborn. We wake up one morning, suddenly aware of our own mortality, and decide to change our ways. You'd be surprised how often that works. We're now old enough and wise enough to understand why healthy living is necessary. I...

Welcome to the 21st Century and beyond as science unveils an amazing piece of equipment that stands to benefit baby boomers for the rest of our lives. Toyota and a group of scientists have developed a thought controlled or mind controlled wheel chair. If you can't get excited over the potential of such an adventure, you're just not trying! The chair, pictured in the video below, takes commands from the riders brainwaves, through a funky looking cap. Think about Dr. Frankenstein shrieking, "He's aliiiive!" as lightening strikes the helmet on his monster's head, then discard that thought. The cap is closely...

A new report called Aging joints? Aging boomers getting new ones may not seem like big news, but it's packed with info you might find worthwhile, especially if you suffer from chronic knee or hip pain. The Herald Tribune's writer WALKER MEADE updates us on how these surgical replacement have changed. Joint replacements are easier to get, easier to live with and more helpful than ever before. Meade tells us: "Everyone knows someone who has had it done. Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton got her new hip when she was 37. William Shatner got his in February 2008. Martha Stewart got...

Oprah Winfrey, most famous baby boomer of all, says her puppy Sadie is doing well according to the veterinarian in charge of Sadie's care, Dr. Alexis Newman of Arboretum View Animal Hospital is Downers Grove, IL. Oprah chose a high tech clinic with an eye on patient survival and the future of veterinary medicine. The little guy pictured above is not Sadie, he's Ernie, my healthy Yorkie Poo. I talked with Dr. Newman's staff today and learned that there's little reason for beloved pets, even older pets, to be put down because of most illness, injuries or aging issues. for us baby boomers, pets...

Cure insomnia with technology? Am I kidding? Get natural sleep. Sleep without pills? How fantastic for insomniacs. Without pills, but with circuit boards? Well, maybe digital sleep isn't exactly what I found. Sleep Tracker Pro looks like a bulgy wristwatch. It's worn on your wrist. Sleep Tracker Pro can help you figure out why you have insomnia. Sleep Tracker records sleep and wake cycles - keeps track of how you sleep. Via a USB port connection, it can import that information to your computer's hard drive. You can input other criteria to your computer and compare or track how they all affect each other. For example, how does your...

Baby boomers are living a digital life. It came home for my family as we prepare for a loved one to undergo robotic surgery on a malignant tumor. With a cancer diagnosis the world turns on its axis. Things get scary, fast. Decisions to make. Information, sometimes indecipherable, floods. We made a medical decision to save a life and it's all wrapped up in 21st Century technology. There are two or three ways to perform removal of a prostate gland that has cancer. One is laparoscopic prostate surgery which involves 5 small abdominal incisions, they tell me. The drawback to this one, though...

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show is one of the largest trade shows and takes place in Las Vegas each year. The public isn't relaly invited - you have to have a connection to the consumer electronics industry to get tickets, but surfing the Web in early January each year will get you some cool stories about what's up for the current year. I was fascinated by a blog called The New Old Age, that talked about the first ever exhibit aimed at the elderly, their adult children and caregivers. Not exactly a baby-boomer topice, per se, the exhibit is about folks a bit...

I'm seeing more and more about a world wide con game scam directed at grandparents. It was originally a phone trick, and has been around for years, but is resurfacing and has moved to email and instant messaging. Here's how the grandparent scam goes: You receive a frantic email, instant message, text message or phone call allegedly from your grandson or granddaughter. The message says they are using a friend's computer, hence the unfamiliar ID or email address. They're stuck in a distant city where they went to see a concert without parent permission. Their car broke down and they need a large...

   Almost 100,000 baby boomers embrace 21st Century technologies.     Baby boomers have access to more technologies to make like easier than has any other generation has had. Seniors, close to 100 million of us, are attacking technology head on - Demystifying Digital, so to speak. I stumbled over a neat article from Science Daily - one line in particular caught my eye and made me chuckle over what it's like to be a Digital Grandparent. An interviewee, talking about plug and play marketing ploys, said, "On the box it says it's as easy as 1-2-3 but when you fold out the list of...

Take a minute to read through a very interesting article from Marketwatch.com on how our baby boomer generation is, once again, affecting technology and marketing. "The demand for developing such products as new microscopic-size instruments and portable home diagnostic equipment has been driven by the need for cost-effective preventive and medical treatments to serve the huge aging baby boomer demographic." (That's us, of course!) The article is a little dry but talks about how major companies are concerned about meeting our needs in the coming years as we age more-than-gracefully, with longer life expectancies and more vibrant and active lives - probably well...