Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: O invenție simplă, pentru siguranța bunicului meu
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
pentru sănătatea americanilor?
boala Alzheimer.
e diagnosticată cu Alzheimer.
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
se va tripla până în 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
și a tuturor persoanelor în vârstă
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
un pacient cu Alzheimer.
with three generations,
am fost mereu apropiat de bunicul meu.
to my grandfather.
cu bunicul prin parc, în Japonia,
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
din viața mea,
că bunicul avea Alzheimer.
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
caused my family a lot of stress.
ai mei se stresează îngrozitor.
to keep an eye on him,
pentru a-l supraveghea noaptea,
to catch him leaving the bed.
coborând din pat.
de sănătatea mătușii mele
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
pentru a-mi ajuta familia,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
l-am văzut coborând din pat.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
un senzor de presiune pe călcâi?”
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
cauzată de greutatea corpului
la telefonul îngrijitorului.
to the caregiver's smartphone.
dormi mai bine noaptea,
much better at night
că bunicul se rătăcește.
about my grandfather's wandering.
o demonstrație cu această șosetă.
a demonstration of this sock.
de șosetă pe scenă?
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
pășește pe podea...
to the caregiver's smartphone.
la telefonul îngrijitorului.
(Aplauze)
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
for sensors and technology.
pentru senzori și tehnologie.
mai în vârstă a căzut în baie
fell down in the bathroom
about my own grandparents
un sistem inteligent pentru baie.
a smart bathroom system.
în gresia din podea
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
cineva în vârstă cade în baie.
și nu terminasem nici grădinița,
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
necesare de a-mi realiza ideea,
de a utiliza senzori
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
the quality of life of the elderly.
calitatea vieții persoanelor în vârstă.
that I faced three main challenges:
mi-am dat seama de trei probleme majore.
was actually much harder to realize
că proiectul meu e mult mai dificil
that was thin and flexible enough
încât pacientul să-l poată purta pe talpă.
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
cu diferite materiale,
of different materials like rubber,
ca să stea lipit pe talpă,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
cu o cerneală conductoare electric
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
crește și conectivitatea între particule.
care măsoară presiunea
that would measure pressure
a wearable wireless circuit,
un circuit fără fir, portabil.
consumes lots of power
consumă mult curent
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
Bluetooth cu consum redus de energie,
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
și folosește o baterie cât o monedă.
în miez de noapte.
from dying in the middle of the night.
that would essentially transform
o aplicație care să transforme
în monitor la distanță.
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
programare în Java și XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
dispozitive Bluetooth de consum redus,
și citind diverse manuale.
and reading various textbooks.
to successfully create two prototypes,
am putut să creez două prototipuri,
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
cu talpa pacientului.
that makes contact
timp de vreun an
for about a year now,
cazuri cunoscute de rătăcire a bunicului.
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
de îngrijire din California,
the feedback
sugestiile de îmbunătățire
into a marketable product.
am înțeles că trebuie inventez soluții
to invent solutions
să poarte șosete în pat.
to wear socks to sleep at night.
de la un număr mare de pacienți
on a vast number of patients,
for the disease, possibly.
un leac pentru boală.
între frecvența rătăcirilor nocturne
of a patient's nightly wandering
de zi cu zi sau alimentele.
is when my device first caught
l-a prins aparatul meu pe bunicul
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
de puterea tehnologiei
asta e lumea pe care mi-o imaginez.
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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