Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Mon invention, très simple, pour protéger mon grand-père
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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pour la santé des Américains ?
to Americans' health?
Le diabète ?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
porteuse d'Alzheimer aux États-Unis.
d'Alzheimer va tripler d'ici 2050,
triples by the year 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
du reste de la population vieillissante,
societal challenge.
un défi sociétal insurmontable.
d'une victime d'Alzheimer.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
de mon grand-père.
were walking in a park in Japan
dans un parc au Japon,
I've ever experienced in my life,
les plus effrayants de ma vie.
instance that informed us
nous informant
had Alzheimer's disease.
d'Alzheimer.
his condition got worse and worse,
s'est dégradé progressivement,
caused my family a lot of stress.
une source d'anxiété pour ma famille.
to keep an eye on him,
la nuit et le surveiller,
to catch him leaving the bed.
à le voir se lever.
about my aunt's well-being
du bien-être de ma tante,
that could help my family's problems,
pour aider ma famille.
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
je l'ai vu se lever de son lit.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
un capteur de pression à son pied ?
and out of the bed,
et sort du lit,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
la pression de son poids
to the caregiver's smartphone.
sur le téléphone de l'aidant.
much better at night
about my grandfather's wandering.
de mon grand-père.
a demonstration of this sock.
de mes chaussettes.
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
de l'aide-soignant.
(Applaudissements)
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
basée sur les capteurs
for sensors and technology.
me passionne depuis toujours.
fell down in the bathroom
s'est gravement blessé
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
une salle de bain intelligente,
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
dans les pavés de la salle de bain.
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
la chute des personnes âgées.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
pour concrétiser mes idées.
ont ancré en moi le désir profond
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
pour aider les personnes âgées.
the quality of life of the elderly.
peuvent améliorer leur bien-être.
that I faced three main challenges:
j'ai découvert 3 défis :
was actually much harder to realize
que mon projet était plus complexe
that was thin and flexible enough
un capteur portable
pour être confortable aux pieds.
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
of different materials like rubber,
comme le caoutchouc.
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
sur des chaussettes.
avec des particules d'encre
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
et sensibles à la pression.
between the particles increases.
la connectivité entre les particules.
that would measure pressure
un circuit qui mesure la pression
a wearable wireless circuit,
un circuit sans fil et portable.
consumes lots of power
sans fil sont énergivores,
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
que j'ai découvert à ce moment.
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
et une pile bouton suffit.
from dying in the middle of the night.
au milieu de la nuit.
that would essentially transform
pour le smartphone de l'aidant
into a remote monitor.
en télé-surveillance.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
en langage de programmation, Java, Xcode,
for Bluetooth low energy devices
associés au Bluetooth.
and reading various textbooks.
et lu des manuels.
en deux prototypes.
to successfully create two prototypes,
is embedded inside a sock,
intégré sur une chaussette.
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
entrant en contact
for about a year now,
avec mon grand-père.
known cases of his wandering.
plus de 900 tentatives de fugue.
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
de retraite en Californie.
the feedback
into a marketable product.
et en faire un produit vendable.
je me suis rendu compte
to invent solutions
de chaussettes la nuit.
to wear socks to sleep at night.
un système pour eux aussi.
on a vast number of patients,
les soins des patients,
for the disease, possibly.
à aider la guérison.
of a patient's nightly wandering
entre la fréquence des fugues
is when my device first caught
détectant pour la première fois
out of bed at night.
de sortir de son lit.
by the power of technology
que la technologie
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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