Communities, but your department has always been looking at four things that would help increase capacity for things that would help increase capacity interconnectivity. This years summits focus on creativity and technology and be sure that we use the wonderful grant from our federal partners in the department of commerce to help us engage healthier, happier, and more connections with our aged community and persons with disabilities. It is a wonderful goal, and we have a lot to talk about today. I also want to welcome all of the businesses that have been partners with this. You know, when it comes to technology, we in the government can never do it alone. Whether it is federal, state, or local government, we have got to work with our private partners so that all of the Media Connections can happen. I want to give a shout out to comcast, verizon, the San Francisco health plan, scan health med, unlock, our media partners, and all the organizations and volunteers working along with us to
What are the technologies and what theyre doing in San Francisco and what the latest discoveries are that we can possibly use to help improve our city. Finally, as someone you know, i celebrated my 60th birthday last week. [applause] and my staff gave me an ipad, and is looking at it i might have to go and join your classes to be able to appreciate all the applications that we have there. So do not be surprised if the guy next to you has a mustache. When i leave here this morning, i will be going to rosa parks Senior Center. We just spent 2 million of federal monies to redo that whole Senior Center and allow that to be one of the sites that will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisco connected Program Reaches all o
Affordable if you have train yourself on some of the equipment that we have and the resources that we have and be able to do that for the various Senior Centers that you live and work in and enjoy yourselves in. Youre going to be able even to read a book online or be able to just have a game and download a game and play with your friends as well. We are all lucky to live in San Francisco, because so many of our Technology Companies have located their headquarters here in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] and because theyre located here, we can always ask them for a favor here and there and make sure no one is left out, because that is what we do in government. David chiu and i come from backgrounds where we do not want to leave anybody behind. We want everybody to enjoy the riches of technology. We want them to enjoy the economy in San Francisco. That is why were working so hard to make sure our central marketplace is welcoming of all these Technology Companies, making sure that we
We use the wii. Questions . The question is, do you have to have a special computer to connect the wii to a television . The answer is no. This box is the council. You plug the cd into it and plug into the tv. Any television will work with the wii. It works well with a big flat screen tv because you can see the action better. Good question. One more question. Allen . The average cost . If you are one of the contract in city Senior Centers, this is part of our Broadband Technology grant, the average cost is zero. [laughter] if you were to buy this for your home, it costs a couple of hundred dollars. The games cost between 20. 40 dollars. They have hundreds of different games to play. To the games cost between 20. 40 dollars. And hundreds of different games to play. We have other adaptive devices that can be used with the wii. This is a foot pedal. This is a foot pedal. Along with the buttons on the hand device connected to alicias remote, we can use foot pedals if there are games the re
Of the screen. They will choose two players. We have created a character that looks a lot like alicia and another character that looks like mackenna. They will be playing against each other in a game of tennis. All right. All they do is simply stand facing the television. You will push a. Hit ok. Hit a. Hit a and b together. Here we go. Single game start. Alicia will be serving. Mackenna will be receiving the surf. We will see what happens. By using her head, she is able to serve. Nice shot. Mackenna gets the first point. Watch how alicia turns her head to control the swinging of the racket. Interesting stuff. She is serving again. Mackenna hits out of bounds. You are tied. Very well done. Here comes another serve. Boom. Great serve. Good enough. Alicia scores another point just by turning her head. Good try, mackenna, but you did not get anything. Tie ball game. A great return by mackenna. Alicia could not quite get to that one. She swung too late. 3030. Nice work. 4030. One more poin