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For Grandma and Grandpa
Five hot e-gifts for grandparents this season
By Liz Garone
Homestore.com
Grandparents of the new millennium are a force to be reckoned with. Forget the cutesy gifts and give them what they really want -- convenience. Here is a roundup of presents with presence, gadgets especially for the savvy senior set.
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Pictures and Printing? Perfect
What grandparent wouldn't love a high-quality camera that takes a photo and prints the picture to boot? The Olympus and Polaroid c-211 ZOOM ($799) is a hybrid digital camera and printer that delivers just that convenience. The printer uses Polaroid instant film for printing up favorite photos, so there's no need to head to the local photo store to develop shots of the grandkids. Available in electronics stores.
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Heart Health
Forget lugging around a heavy and clumsy armband or trekking to the back of the drugstore to check blood pressure. The Lifewatch Blood Pressure Monitor ($129.95) -- the size of a watch -- can take your pulse rate and blood pressure in less than a minute. When seniors are not measuring their vitals, they can use it as a regular wristwatch; in fact, it has both time and date functions. Available in specialty catalogs.
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Phoney-Faced Phone
For a lot of older people, switching from a rotary to a push-button phone was tough. And nowadays, choosing a new phone--what with the choice of 900 megahertz models, headsets and more--can be quite tiresome. So simplify their life with the TeleFace Photo Phone ($39.99). Sold by Ronsonic.com and other retailers under different names, the phone has 10 large memory keys with slots for photos and is compatible with hearing aids.
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Take Control
Which remote control goes with which gizmo? Tell Grandma and Grandpa they can trade them all in for one apparatus -- the Sony Universal Remote Control ($179.95). It cuts back on confusion, from losing the remote to clicking with the wrong one. And the single remote, which can control up to 12 devices at once, lessens the need for an arsenal of batteries. Available at Homestore Shopping.
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You've Got Mail
Everybody loves e-mail, but not every grandparent has -- or wants -- their own computer. Thus the Mailstation ($99.95) by CIDCO. With it, they can send and receive unlimited numbers of e-mail and get news and other information from Yahoo! (for $9.95 a month).
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