Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Meine einfache Erfindung, um meinen Großvater zu schützen
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
für die Gesundheit der US-Amerikaner?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
mit Alzheimer diagnostiziert.
triples by the year 2050,
bis 2050 verdreifachen wird,
the rest of the aging population,
und die übrige alternde Bevölkerung
societal challenge.
sozialen Herausforderung.
eines Alzheimerpatienten ist.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
mit drei Generationen auf
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
im Park spazieren,
I've ever experienced in my life,
Momente meines Lebens
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
sein Zustand stetig verschlimmert
caused my family a lot of stress.
hat meiner Familie viel Sorge bereitet.
to keep an eye on him,
um ihn im Auge zu behalten.
wenn er das Bett verließ.
to catch him leaving the bed.
about my aunt's well-being
um die Gesundheit meiner Tante
that could help my family's problems,
gesucht, die meiner Familie helfen könnte,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
und sah, wie er vom Bett aufstand.
einen Drucksensor an seiner Ferse an?"
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
and out of the bed,
den Boden berührt,
durch das Körpergewicht erkennen
increase in pressure caused by body weight
an das Smartphone des Pflegers schicken.
to the caregiver's smartphone.
much better at night
nachts viel besser schlafen,
about my grandfather's wandering.
meines Großvaters sorgen zu müssen.
a demonstration of this sock.
my sock model on the stage?
bitte auf die Bühne kommen?
steps onto the floor --
auf den Boden tritt --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
das Handy des Betreuers gesandt.
of my preliminary design.
meines vorläufigen Designs.
a sensor-based technology
Technologie entwickeln,
for sensors and technology.
für Sensoren und Technik herrührt.
der Familie im Bad aus
fell down in the bathroom
wegen meiner Großeltern
about my own grandparents
im Bad entwicklen.
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
den Bodenfliesen im Bad installiert,
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
zu erkennen, sobald sie im Bad hinfielen.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
meine Idee realisieren zu können.
meine Erfahrungen
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
um älteren Menschen zu helfen.
the quality of life of the elderly.
von Senioren verbessern.
dass es drei Herausforderungen gab:
that I faced three main challenges:
was actually much harder to realize
schwerer umzusetzen war
designen, der dünn und flexibel genug war,
that was thin and flexible enough
getragen werden zu können.
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
of different materials like rubber,
mit verschiedenen Materialien wie Gummi,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
am Fuß getragen zu werden,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
druckempfindlichen Farbpartikeln.
between the particles increases.
die Verbindung zwischen den Partikeln zu.
that would measure pressure
entwickeln, der Druck misst,
gemessen wird.
tragbaren Stromkreis entwerfen,
a wearable wireless circuit,
consumes lots of power
verbraucht viel Energie
unhandliche Batterien.
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
der Bluetooth-Technnologie,
einer Knopfzellen-Batterie betrieben wird.
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
from dying in the middle of the night.
mitten in der Nacht aufgeben.
that would essentially transform
programmieren, die das Handy
into a remote monitor.
Fernüberwachung verwandelt.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
über Java und XCode ausweiten
for Bluetooth low energy devices
Geräte für Bluetooth programmiert,
and reading various textbooks.
und verschiedene Lehrbücher las.
to successfully create two prototypes,
und zwei Prototypen herstellen.
is embedded inside a sock,
eine Socke eingearbeitet
a re-attachable sensor assembly
flexible Sensoreinheit,
that makes contact
for about a year now,
an meinem Großvater getestet,
known cases of his wandering.
900 Fällen seines Umherirrens.
mein Gerät in der Betatestphase
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
die Rückmeldungen,
the feedback
marktfähigen Produkt zu verbessern.
into a marketable product.
to invent solutions
entwickeln musste
to wear socks to sleep at night.
mit Socken schlafen wollen.
on a vast number of patients,
einer großen Zahl Patienten
für die Alzheimer-Krankheit führen.
for the disease, possibly.
von nächtlichem Herumwandern der Patienten
of a patient's nightly wandering
Aktivität und Ernährung.
war das erste Mal, als mein Gerät
is when my device first caught
out of bed at night.
meines Großvaters erfasste.
by the power of technology
der Technik bewusst,
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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