1. February 1

2. Wearables
Ageing

4. What electronic devices do you regularly make use of?
What’s a wearable device?
Can you give any examples?
What do you use them for? Can they improve
your performance on daily tasks?

5. Find out more about one of them. What do you think of it?
Would you like to have it?
Look at these wearable devices.
What do you know about them?
Samsung Gear
Oculus Rift
Microsoft HoloLens
Fitbit Ionic

6. Can you imagine what smart socks could be like?
How would they work?
Watch the video
and check.
What would they be able to do?
How useful would they be?

7. What do you think of the Sensoria Smart Socks?
How useful do they look?
Design your wearable device.
Think of the device, how it works, what its functions are, how it can improve people’s life, etc.
Are devices such as these actually making our life better / easier or are they just gimmickry?
What kind of wearable tech will we be using
in 10 years’ time, in your opinion?

9. How do you feel about ageing?
Would you like to have it stopped if it was possible?
What do you think is the best age to be?
Why do you say so?
Do you believe science will ever be able to
stop ageing?
If people are still able to (and want to) work, should they have to retire when they reach a certain age?

10. What impact could treating ageing as a disease
“As we get older, our cells stop working and can break down, leading to conditions like cancer, heart disease, arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease. Together, ageing-related diseases are responsible for 100,000 deaths per day and billions are spent around the world trying to slow their steady march on our bodies.
Some researchers, however, believe we may be thinking about these conditions in the wrong way. They say we should start treating ageing itself as a disease – one that can be prevented and treated.”
What impact could treating ageing as a disease
have on our society? Would the way we treat the elderly change? How so?

11. “One of these researchers is Aubrey De Grey, chief science officer of a California-based regenerative research foundation focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He says they want ‘to fix the things we don’t like about the changes that happen between the age of 30 and the age of 70’.”
What changes are these? Have they started happening to you? Do you worry about them?

12. Listen to the two podcast snippets. How do you react to it?
What might be the consequences of such therapies
if they eventually become successful? Think of laws, employment, retirement, romantic relationships, etc.

13. Would you undergo such therapies? Why (not)?
Even if people around you did / didn’t?
Will they be available for everybody?
What if only a thin slice of the population
could live beyond their 150s?
Why are anti-ageing cosmetics and treatments such a big deal in our society? Why can’t we just accept ageing and its natural consequences?

14. Slide 5: opportunity for BYOD / tablet moment
Slide 5: opportunity for BYOD / tablet moment. Sts may use the devices to scan the QR codes. Have groups read about one of them and talk about it. Then, have sts from different groups get together and talk about the device they have chosen.
Alternatively, clicking on the images of the wearable devices will lead you to their website. Visit one of two and have sts talk about those devices.
Slide 7: sts might use the tablets to design their wearables.

15. Slide 12: visit the website in advance and locate both snippets in the body text. They are close to the sentences Aubrey de Grey discusses his aim to create a suite of regenerative therapies and Could it be possible to be biologically 60 when you’re chronologically 150?, respectively.

16. https://mashable.com/2018/02/01/sensoria-fitness-smart-socks/#2f92On_LtSq2