Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: A minha invenção simples, concebida para manter o meu avô em segurança
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
que aumenta mais rapidamente?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
com a doença de Alzheimer.
triples by the year 2050,
a triplicar em 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
população de idosos,
societal challenge.
diretamente
for an Alzheimer's patient.
um doente com Alzheimer.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
num parque no Japão
I've ever experienced in my life,
mais assustadores da minha vida,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
a sua condição piorou cada vez mais
caused my family a lot of stress.
causavam muito angústia à família.
to keep an eye on him,
de noite, de olho nele.
to catch him leaving the bed.
em apanhá-lo a sair da cama.
about my aunt's well-being
quanto ao bem-estar da minha tia
that could help my family's problems,
para os problemas da minha família,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
e vi-o levantar-se da cama.
tocou no chão, pensei:
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
de pressão no calcanhar do pé dele?
and out of the bed,
da pressão causado pelo peso corporal
increase in pressure caused by body weight
to the caregiver's smartphone.
o telemóvel do vigilante.
much better at night
muito melhor à noite
about my grandfather's wandering.
com as deambulações do meu avô.
a demonstration of this sock.
demonstração desta meia.
my sock model on the stage?
com a meia aqui no palco?
steps onto the floor --
põe o pé no chão...
to the caregiver's smartphone.
o telemóvel do vigilante.
of my preliminary design.
do "design" preliminar.
a sensor-based technology
tecnologia baseada em sensores
for sensors and technology.
por sensores e tecnologia.
fell down in the bathroom
caiu na casa de banho
about my own grandparents
com o meu avô
inteligente na casa de banho.
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
nos azulejos do chão da casa de banho
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
sempre que caíssem na casa de banho.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
para tornar realidade a minha ideia.
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
de usar sensores para ajudar os idosos.
the quality of life of the elderly.
melhorar a qualidade de vida dos idosos.
that I faced three main challenges:
que enfrentava três grandes problemas:
para telemóvel.
was actually much harder to realize
era mais difícil de concretizar
that was thin and flexible enough
bastante fino e flexível
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
na planta do pé do doente.
of different materials like rubber,
diferentes materiais como borracha,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
ser confortável na planta do pé,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
pressão eletricamente.
between the particles increases.
entre as partículas aumentava.
that would measure pressure
que mediria a pressão
sem fios, que se pudesse usar.
a wearable wireless circuit,
consumes lots of power
consomem imensa energia
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
baixa energia Bluetooth
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
e usa uma bateria do tamanho de uma moeda.
from dying in the middle of the night.
fosse abaixo a meio da noite.
that would essentially transform
que iria transformar
into a remote monitor.
num monitor remoto.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
conhecimento em código de Java e XCode.
for Bluetooth low energy devices
para aparelhos Bluetooth de baixa carga,
and reading various textbooks.
e lendo vários compêndios.
to successfully create two prototypes,
criar dois protótipos bem sucedidos,
is embedded inside a sock,
fica dentro da meia
a re-attachable sensor assembly
é removível
that makes contact
com a planta do pé do doente.
for about a year now,
de há um ano a esta parte
known cases of his wandering.
conhecidos das suas deambulações.
to beta test my device
fazer o teste beta ao meu aparelho
care facilities in California,
da Califórnia.
the feedback
os resultados
into a marketable product.
e torná-lo um produto de mercado.
to invent solutions
de inventar soluções
to wear socks to sleep at night.
usar meias para dormir.
on a vast number of patients,
de muitos doentes,
os cuidados dos doentes
for the disease, possibly.
para a doença, possivelmente.
of a patient's nightly wandering
deambulações noturnas dos doentes
is when my device first caught
a primeira vez que o aparelho
out of bed at night.
fora da cama à noite.
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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