Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
كينث شينزوكا: صُمم اخترعي البسيط ليحافظ على جدي آمن.
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
عدد مرضى الزهايمر ثلاثة أضعاف،
the rest of the aging population,
إلى بقية السكان المسنين،
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
التي عانيت منها في حياتي،
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
تحولت حالته من أسوء لأسوء،
caused my family a lot of stress.
تسبب في كثير من الإجهاد لأسرتي.
to keep an eye on him,
to catch him leaving the bed.
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
أن يساعد في حل مشكلات عائلتي،
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
ضغط على كعب رجله؟
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
الضغط الناتج عن وزن الجسم
to the caregiver's smartphone.
مقدم الرعاية إنذار صوتي.
much better at night
عمتي أفضل بالليل
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
for sensors and technology.
للمستشعرات والتكنولوجيا.
fell down in the bathroom
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
داخل بلاطات أرضية الحمام
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
وقتما يسقطون في الحمام.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
والأدوات لترجمة أفكاري لحقيقة،
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
لاستخدم المستشعرات لمساعدة المسنين.
the quality of life of the elderly.
تحسين طبيعة الحياة للمسنين.
that I faced three main challenges:
أواجه ثلاثة تحديات:
لتطبيق هاتف ذكي.
was actually much harder to realize
حقيقةً صعب التحقيق
that was thin and flexible enough
يمكن ارتداءه، مستشعر رفيع ومرن كفاية
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
يرتديه في أسفل قدمه.
of different materials like rubber,
مختلفة مثل المطاط،
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
أثناء ارتداءه في باطن القدم،
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
that would measure pressure
أصمم دائرة لتقيس الضغط
a wearable wireless circuit,
لاسلكية يمكن ارتداءها،
consumes lots of power
يستهلك كثير من الطاقة
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
لاكتشف البلوتوث، التكنولوجيا قليلة الطاقة،
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
ويمكن تشغيلها ببطارية في حجم العملة.
from dying in the middle of the night.
that would essentially transform
يمكنه في الأساس تحويل
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
عن طريق الجافا والإكس كود
for Bluetooth low energy devices
أشفر أجهزة البلوتوث منخفضة الطاقة
and reading various textbooks.
to successfully create two prototypes,
أن أنشيء بنجاح نموذجين بدء،
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
منذ حوالي عام الآن،
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
على إجراء اختبار نهائي لجهازي
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
جوارب أثناء النوم ليلًا.
on a vast number of patients,
من عدد مرضى كبير،
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
تجوال المريض ليلًا
is when my device first caught
هو حين كشف جهازي لأول مرة
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
حقًا قدرة التكنولوجيا
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kenneth Shinozuka - Smart product inventorKenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten.
Why you should listen
When he was six years old, a family friend of Kenneth Shinozuka fell down in the bathroom. The friend was ok -- but the incident inspired him to design a motion detection system that could be embedded in bathroom tiles. He never actually made one in real life (remember, he was only six) ... but he was hooked on both the promise of invention and the potential of technology.
Since then, Shinozuka has designed smart devices for his grandfather, who has Alzheimer's disease. One invention that caught the eye of both the media and awards programs such as the Google Science Fair: a pair of smart socks, designed to send an alert to a caregiver if a patient gets out of bed. In 2014, he won the $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award, while he was also a 2014 Davidson Fellow.
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