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Julie Caldwell (left) and Julie Blackwell (right), two Matamata accountants who developed a very simplified tablet, the Kitcal, with no keyboard and wifi and only a handful of pre-set response buttons for seniors to keep them in touch with their families.
Two Matamata women have launched a simplified tablet for seniors that requires no typing or wifi to keep elderly relatives “in the loop” each day. Julie Caldwell and her colleague Julie Blackwell, accountants, have devised the tablet after Caldwell’s mother Lois found that as she approached her 90s she was no longer able to keep up with all the changes in her iPad and phone which she had been using for years.