Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
肯尼斯.筱冢: 保護爺爺安全的小發明
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
增速最快的是哪種?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
失智症患者的數量會翻三倍,
the rest of the aging population,
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
caused my family a lot of stress.
全家都會很緊張。
to keep an eye on him,
為了看住爺爺,
to catch him leaving the bed.
爺爺下床。
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
可以幫助我的家人。
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
看到他正想要下床,
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
放個壓力傳感器呢?
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
而造成的壓力上漲,
to the caregiver's smartphone.
傳輸到看護人的智能手機。
much better at night
就可以睡得更好一些。
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
我發明的壓力感應襪子。
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
基於傳感器的技術,
for sensors and technology.
和相關科技長期以來的熱愛。
fell down in the bathroom
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
浴室的地磚裡面,
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
就能夠檢測到壓力。
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
來實現我的想法,
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
利用傳感器去幫助老人。
the quality of life of the elderly.
老年人的生活質量。
that I faced three main challenges:
我意識到我面臨著三大挑戰:
was actually much harder to realize
比我一開始想象的要難得多。
that was thin and flexible enough
足夠輕薄靈活的傳感器,
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
of different materials like rubber,
比如橡膠,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
穿在腳上不夠服帖。
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
連通性就增加了。
that would measure pressure
a wearable wireless circuit,
可穿戴的無線電路。
consumes lots of power
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
from dying in the middle of the night.
就沒電的狀況。
that would essentially transform
一款智能手機軟件,
into a remote monitor.
變成遠程監控器。
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
我繼續鑽研編程,
for Bluetooth low energy devices
去操縱藍牙低功耗設備,
and reading various textbooks.
以及翻了很多書。
to successfully create two prototypes,
我成功做出來了兩個原型,
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
known cases of his wandering.
超過 900 次的發病情況。
to beta test my device
一些護理院試用這套設備,
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
使它成為可以進入市場的產品。
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
on a vast number of patients,
采集到的傳感器數據,
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
is when my device first caught
out of bed at night.
我爺爺半夜下床的時刻。
by the power of technology
科技的力量,
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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