Motorola Patents Elderly-Adjusting Phone  Motorola spews forth
more patents in its shotgun approach to blanket every possible
mobile technology just so others can't. Today, a cellphone that
accomodates the elderly by increasing font size and simplifying
menu structure, probably to the detriment of features.  The
software on the phone "detects" the elderly by their speech
patterns—Slower, less energetic and trembling, and then adjusts.
Nice to know that the engineers at Motorola have finally
quantified what it means to be elderly. Good work chaps! Time to
have a drink and neglect your poor, destitute mother.  Patent
[US PTO via Mobiledia]