Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Min enkla uppfinning, designad för att hålla min farfar säker
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
mot amerikanernas hälsa?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
kommer att tredubblas till år 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
den åldrande befolkningen,
societal challenge.
samhällsutmaning.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
en Alzheimerpatient.
with three generations,
med tre generationer
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
i en park i Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
ögonblicken i mitt liv,
instance that informed us
för första gången förstod
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
har hans tillstånd försämrats,
caused my family a lot of stress.
varit stressande för min familj.
to keep an eye on him,
för att ha koll på honom,
to catch him leaving the bed.
att han steg ur sängen.
about my aunt's well-being
min fasters välbefinnande
that could help my family's problems,
en lösning på familjens problem
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
jag såg honom stiga ur sängen.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
en trycksensor på hans häl?
and out of the bed,
och ner på golvet
increase in pressure caused by body weight
en tryckökning från kroppsvikten
to the caregiver's smartphone.
till vårdarens smarttelefon.
much better at night
sova bättre på nätterna
about my grandfather's wandering.
för min farfars nattvandrande.
a demonstration of this sock.
den här strumpan.
my sock model on the stage?
på scenen?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
vårdarens smarttelefon.
of my preliminary design.
över min preliminära design.
a sensor-based technology
en sensorbaserad teknik
for sensors and technology.
för sensorer och teknik.
fell down in the bathroom
i badrummet
about my own grandparents
ett smart badrumssystem.
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
på undersidan av golvplattorna
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
ramlade på golvet.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
eller verktyg för att förverkliga min idé,
forskningsupplevelse
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
använda sensorer för att hjälpa de äldre.
the quality of life of the elderly.
förbättra de äldres livskvalitet.
that I faced three main challenges:
att jag stod inför tre utmaningar;
was actually much harder to realize
var svårare att förverkliga
that was thin and flexible enough
som var tunn och flexibel nog
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
av patientens fot.
of different materials like rubber,
testande av olika material som gummi,
bäras tätt mot fotsulan,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
tryckkänsliga bläckpartiklar.
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
konduktiviteten mellan partiklarna.
som mäter tryck
that would measure pressure
en bärbar trådlös krets
a wearable wireless circuit,
consumes lots of power
drar mycket ström
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
bakom lågenergi-bluetooth,
drivs med ett knappcellsbatteri.
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
from dying in the middle of the night.
dog mitt i natten.
that would essentially transform
som i princip förvandlar
till en fjärrövervakare.
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
att koda med Java och XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
för enheter med lågenergi-bluetooth
and reading various textbooks.
och läsa olika böcker.
to successfully create two prototypes,
kunde jag skapa två prototyper,
is embedded inside a sock,
inuti en strumpa,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
sensoraggregat
that makes contact
där det får kontakt
under ungefär ett år nu,
for about a year now,
då han har nattvandrat.
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
betatesta min uppfinning
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
en säljbar produkt.
to invent solutions
komma på lösningar
to wear socks to sleep at night.
on a vast number of patients,
från ett stort antal patienter
för att förbättra vården
for the disease, possibly.
botemedel mot sjukdomen.
of a patient's nightly wandering
en patient nattvandrar
dagliga aktivitet och kost.
is when my device first caught
när min uppfinning fångade
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
av teknikens förmåga
och hälsosamt -
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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