Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Mi sencilla invención, diseñada para cuidar a mi abuelo
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
to Americans' health?
para la salud de los estadounidenses?
es ninguna de ellas;
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
es diagnosticado con Alzheimer.
triples by the year 2050,
se triplicará para el 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
de la población envejecida
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
un paciente con Alzheimer.
with three generations,
con 3 generaciones,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
un parque en Japón
I've ever experienced in my life,
más aterradores que he vivido
instance that informed us
instancia que nos alertó
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
su enfermedad fue de mal en peor,
caused my family a lot of stress.
le causaba a mi familia mucho estrés.
to keep an eye on him,
despierta de noche para vigilarlo,
no podía evitar que deje la cama.
to catch him leaving the bed.
about my aunt's well-being
la salud de mi tía
that could help my family's problems,
para mitigar los problemas de mi familia,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
y lo vi salir de la cama.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
un sensor de presión en su talón?
and out of the bed,
el aumento de presión por el peso corporal
increase in pressure caused by body weight
to the caregiver's smartphone.
una alerta sonora al móvil del cuidador.
much better at night
mucho mejor por la noche
about my grandfather's wandering.
por el deambular de mi abuelo.
a demonstration of this sock.
una demostración de este calcetín.
por favor mi modelo de calcetín?
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
pone un pie en el suelo...
to the caregiver's smartphone.
al smartphone del cuidador.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
basada en sensores
por los sensores y la tecnología.
for sensors and technology.
de la familia cayó en el baño
fell down in the bathroom
about my own grandparents
por mis propios abuelos
a smart bathroom system.
de baño inteligente.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
en los azulejos del suelo del baño
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
de la tercera edad en el baño.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
para hacer mi idea realidad
mi experiencia en investigación
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
sensores para ayudar a la tercera edad.
the quality of life of the elderly.
la calidad de vida de los mayores.
that I faced three main challenges:
principales al presentar mi plan:
was actually much harder to realize
era mucho más difícil de hacer
that was thin and flexible enough
fino y suficientemente flexible
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
en el pie del paciente.
of different materials like rubber,
con materiales diferentes como el caucho,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
para usarlo en la suela del pie,
de película con partículas de tinta
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
y electroconductoras.
between the particles increases.
la conectividad entre las partículas.
that would measure pressure
un circuito para medir la presión
un circuito inalámbrico portátil,
a wearable wireless circuit,
mucha energía al transmitirse
consumes lots of power
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
Bluetooth de bajo consumo,
alimentarse con una batería diminuta.
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
from dying in the middle of the night.
quede sin señal en plena noche.
that would essentially transform
que, en esencia, transformó
into a remote monitor.
en un monitor remoto.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
Bluetooth de baja energía
and reading various textbooks.
y leyendo varios manuales.
to successfully create two prototypes,
pude crear con éxito 2 prototipos,
dentro de un calcetín,
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
de sensores re-acoplables
that makes contact
la suela del pie del paciente.
for about a year now,
durante casi un año,
known cases of his wandering.
casos conocidos de su deambular.
to beta test my device
la beta de mi dispositivo
care facilities in California,
de tercera edad de California,
the feedback
incorporando las mejoras
into a marketable product.
en un número de pacientes
to invent solutions
inventar soluciones
to wear socks to sleep at night.
usar los calcetines de noche.
en muchos pacientes,
on a vast number of patients,
la atención al paciente
for the disease, possibly.
para la enfermedad también.
of a patient's nightly wandering
del deambular nocturno de un paciente
detectó por primera vez
is when my device first caught
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
el poder de la tecnología
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.
Kenneth Shinozuka | Speaker | TED.com