Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Moj jednostavan izum za sigurnost moga djeda
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
najbržem porastu?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer.
triples by the year 2050,
utrostručavao,
the rest of the aging population,
populacije,
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
Alzheimera.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
u mom životu,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
sve više i više pogoršavalo,
caused my family a lot of stress.
uzrokovalo jako puno stresa.
to keep an eye on him,
kako bi pazila na njega
to catch him leaving the bed.
izlazi iz kreveta.
about my aunt's well-being
dobrobit
that could help my family's problems,
pomoći problemima moje obitelji,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
izlazi iz kreveta.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
postaviti senzor za pritisak.
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
pritisku uzrokovano tjelesnom težinom
to the caregiver's smartphone.
na smartphone njegove skrbnice.
much better at night
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
ove čarape.
my sock model on the stage?
pridružiti na pozornici?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
bazirane na senzoru
for sensors and technology.
ljubavi prema senzorima i tehnologiji
fell down in the bathroom
u kupaonici
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
kupaonski sustav.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
pločica kupaonskih podova
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
pacijenata kad god bi pali u kupaonici.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
kako bih svoju ideju proveo u djelo.
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
korištenjem senzora za pomoć starijima.
the quality of life of the elderly.
poboljšati kvalitetu života.
that I faced three main challenges:
postoje tri osnovne poteškoće:
was actually much harder to realize
teže realizirati
that was thin and flexible enough
senzor, a opet dovoljno fleksibilan
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
na donjem dijelu stopala.
of different materials like rubber,
raznih materijala poput gume,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
da bi se nosila pripijena za stopalo,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
osjetljiv na pritisak.
between the particles increases.
povezanost među česticama se povećava.
that would measure pressure
koji bi mjerio pritisak
a wearable wireless circuit,
bežični strujni krug,
consumes lots of power
puno energije
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
bluetooth tehnologiju
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
pokrenuti baterija veličine novčića.
from dying in the middle of the night.
ne bi krepao usred noći.
that would essentially transform
smartphone aplikaciju koja je
into a remote monitor.
daljinski nadzor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
o kodiranju u Javi i XCodeu
for Bluetooth low energy devices
niskoenergetske bluetooth uređaje
and reading various textbooks.
i čitajući razne udžbenike.
to successfully create two prototypes,
uspješno stvoriti dva prototipa,
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
gotovo godinu dana,
known cases of his wandering.
slučajeva njegova lutanja.
to beta test my device
beta-testirati svoj uređaj
care facilities in California,
za njegu u Kaliforniji
the feedback
povratnu informaciju
into a marketable product.
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
čarape u krevetu.
on a vast number of patients,
ogromnom broju pacijenata
o pacijentima
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
noćnog lutanja pacijenata
is when my device first caught
prvi put uhvatila mog
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
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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