Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Egyszerű találmányom nagypapám biztonságának védelmére
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
terjedő betegség az USA-ban?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer-kóros pácienst.
triples by the year 2050,
az Alzheimer-kóros páciensek száma.
the rest of the aging population,
az öregedő népesség ellátása
societal challenge.
gonddá válik majd.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
beteget gondozni.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
Japánban, nagyapa és én,
I've ever experienced in my life,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
rosszabbodott az állapota.
caused my family a lot of stress.
aggasztotta, hogy nagyapa elkószál.
to keep an eye on him,
maradni, hogy vigyázhasson rá.
to catch him leaving the bed.
ha nagyapa útra kelt.
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
miként lehetne rajtuk segíteni,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
mikor láttam, hogy felkel.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
egy nyomásérzékelőt a sarkára?"
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
a testsúlya miatti nyomásváltozást,
to the caregiver's smartphone.
a gondozó okostelefonjára.
much better at night
about my grandfather's wandering.
miatt nyugtalankodnia.
a demonstration of this sock.
nektek a zokni működését.
my sock model on the stage?
légy szíves, fáradj be a színpadra.
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
a gondozó okostelefonját.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
ezt az érzékelős megoldást,
for sensors and technology.
az érzékelők technológiája.
fell down in the bathroom
elcsúszott a fürdőszobában,
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
elesett a fürdőben.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
nem tudtam megvalósítani az elképzelésem.
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
hogy érzékelőkkel segítsek az időseken.
the quality of life of the elderly.
javíthatnák az idősek életminőségét.
that I faced three main challenges:
kiderült, három feladatom van:
was actually much harder to realize
that was thin and flexible enough
rugalmas érzékelő kellett hozzá,
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
of different materials like rubber,
mint pl. a gumi tesztelése után,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
miatt nem simul a talphoz,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
érzékeny tintarészecskék vannak.
between the particles increases.
közti vezetőképesség.
that would measure pressure
mérésével állapította meg a nyomást.
a wearable wireless circuit,
nélküli áramkört terveztem.
consumes lots of power
rengeteg áramot fogyaszt,
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
alacsony fogyasztású megoldásai.
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
érme nagyságú elemmel üzemelnek.
from dying in the middle of the night.
váratlanul az éj közepén.
that would essentially transform
A gondozó okostelefonja így
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
mert a Javán és az XCode-on felül
for Bluetooth low energy devices
programozását is ismernem kellett.
and reading various textbooks.
s persze tankönyveket is bújtam.
to successfully create two prototypes,
sikerült két mintapéldányt előállítani.
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
tesztelem kb. egy éve,
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
hogy hamarosan piacra dobhassuk.
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
éjszaka zoknit viselni.
on a vast number of patients,
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
éjjeli sétáinak száma,
is when my device first caught
mikor a találmányom először
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
hogy a technológia
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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