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I'm Richard Trentham have seen it at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where I'm looking at the fujitsu new generation cane which is a prototype 21st century digitally connected walking cane that's designed not only to help seniors get around but also to give peace of mind to family and friends so the new generation cane it has this big contoured plastic handle to make it comfortable to hold so the seniors can use it to guide them to help them get around and the way it works is you pre-program the route into this software on your computer and then that sends through GPS built into the cane it puts little arrows on the top to show you where you want to walk and it also beams back the location of the cane to the computer so family and friends and loved ones can monitor where you are for example it also has a humidity and temperature sensor in it so if things are getting quite hot and you're worried about the the senior citizen in your life who's out there with the cane and what you can do is you can guide them to somewhere where it's a little bit cooler so they can have a sit down other features include a heart rate monitor built-in so if you grip onto it and put your thumb over it here then it will monitor your heart rate and that information also gets sent back to the computer and all that data gets saved up and you can keep it for your family and friends you can look at yourself and you can also send it to your doctor or health care professional so it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in as well as GPS now at the moment the the battery lasts for about three hours so it's all for a good long hike but it's only a prototype so it may well have a longer lasting battery when it actually comes to market so that's the prototype new generation cane to help senior citizens get around I'm rich a trend I'm have seen it