Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Minha invenção simples, projetada para manter a segurança de meu avô
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
à saúde dos americanos?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
com a doença de Alzheimer.
triples by the year 2050,
com Alzheimer tiver triplicado em 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
do resto da população idosa,
societal challenge.
enorme para a sociedade.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
de um doente de Alzheimer.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
em um parque no Japão,
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
mais assustadores da minha vida,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
tinha a doença de Alzheimer.
his condition got worse and worse,
a sua condição foi piorando,
caused my family a lot of stress.
causaram muito estresse a minha família.
to keep an eye on him,
à noite, de olho nele,
to catch him leaving the bed.
não conseguiu vê-lo saindo.
about my aunt's well-being
com o bem-estar da minha tia,
that could help my family's problems,
que ajudasse minha família,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
e o vi saindo da cama.
sensor de pressão em seu calcanhar?"
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
and out of the bed,
da cama e pise no chão,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
de pressão causada pelo peso corporal
to the caregiver's smartphone.
para o smartphone do cuidador.
much better at night
dormir melhor à noite
about my grandfather's wandering.
com as andanças do meu avô.
a demonstration of this sock.
uma demonstração desse meia.
my sock model on the stage?
o meu modelo de meia ao palco?
steps onto the floor --
pise no chão -
to the caregiver's smartphone.
ao smartphone do cuidador.
of my preliminary design.
do meu projeto preliminar.
a sensor-based technology
baseada em sensores
for sensors and technology.
por sensores e tecnologia.
fell down in the bathroom
caiu no banheiro
about my own grandparents
de banheiro inteligente:
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
nos azulejos dos pisos dos banheiros,
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
sempre que caíssem.
from kindergarten yet,
do jardim de infância,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
para traduzir a minha ideia em realidade,
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
sensores para ajudar os idosos.
the quality of life of the elderly.
a qualidade de vida dos idosos.
that I faced three main challenges:
enfrentei três grandes desafios:
aplicativo de smartphone.
was actually much harder to realize
bem mais difícil de realizar
pensava que fosse.
that was thin and flexible enough
vestível, fino e flexível o suficiente
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
na planta do pé do paciente.
of different materials like rubber,
com vários materiais, como borracha,
para ser usada na planta do pé,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
à pressão, eletricamente condutoras.
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
entre as partículas aumenta.
that would measure pressure
um circuito para medir a pressão,
a wearable wireless circuit,
um circuito sem fio vestível,
consumes lots of power
consome muita energia
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
Bluetooth de baixa energia,
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
conduzida por uma bateria pequena.
from dying in the middle of the night.
de desligar no meio da noite.
that would essentially transform
um aplicativo que transformaria
into a remote monitor.
em um monitor remoto.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
mais programação Java e XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
dispositivos Bluetooth,
and reading various textbooks.
e lendo vários livros.
to successfully create two prototypes,
consegui criar com êxito dois protótipos:
is embedded inside a sock,
é colocado dentro de uma meia,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
de sensores reagrupados
superfície de contato
that makes contact
no meu avô por cerca de um ano,
for about a year now,
known cases of his wandering.
conhecidos de suas andanças.
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
to invent solutions
precisava inventar soluções
to wear socks to sleep at night.
querem usar meias para dormir.
on a vast number of patients,
de um grande número de pacientes
for the disease, possibly.
levar a uma cura para a doença.
of a patient's nightly wandering
das andanças noturnas do paciente,
is when my device first caught
em que meu aparelho detectou
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
com o poder da tecnologia
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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