Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenneth Shinozuka: Prosty wynalazek, który stworzyłem dla bezpieczeństwa dziadka
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
dla zdrowia Amerykanów?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
na Alzheimera zwiększy się trzykrotnie,
the rest of the aging population,
i resztą starzejącej się ludności,
societal challenge.
for an Alzheimer's patient.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
z moim dziadkiem.
were walking in a park in Japan
po parku w Japonii,
I've ever experienced in my life,
przerażających chwil w moim życiu.
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
jego stan się pogarszał,
caused my family a lot of stress.
przysporzyły nam najwięcej stresu.
to keep an eye on him,
żeby mieć go na oku.
złapać dziadka, gdy wstawał.
to catch him leaving the bed.
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
problemów mojej rodziny,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
zobaczyłem, że wychodzi z łóżka.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
na pięcie czujnika nacisku.
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
spowodowany ciężarem ciała,
to the caregiver's smartphone.
alarm w telefonie opiekuna.
much better at night
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
zademonstrować moją skarpetę.
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
na podłodze,
to the caregiver's smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
opartej na czujnikach
for sensors and technology.
do czujników i technologii.
fell down in the bathroom
upadł w łazience
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
łazienkowy system bezpieczeństwa.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
czujników ruchu w płytkach podłogowych,
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
gdy tylko przewrócą się w łazience.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
żeby urzeczywistnić mój pomysł,
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
by użyć czujników, pomagając starszym.
the quality of life of the elderly.
jakość życia osób starszych.
that I faced three main challenges:
że staję przed trzema wyzwaniami:
was actually much harder to realize
był dużo trudniejszy do zrealizowania,
that was thin and flexible enough
na tyle cienki i elastyczny czujnik,
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
wygodnie noszony pod stopą.
różnych materiałów, jak guma,
of different materials like rubber,
by nosić ją pod stopą,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
between the particles increases.
między cząsteczkami zmniejszają się.
który mierzy siłę nacisku
that would measure pressure
a wearable wireless circuit,
wygodny, bezprzewodowy obwód,
consumes lots of power
pochłania dużo energii
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
o energooszczędnej technologii Bluetooth,
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
i jest zasilana baterią wielkości monety.
from dying in the middle of the night.
nie przestaje działać w środku nocy.
that would essentially transform
w zdalny monitor.
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
kodowania Java i XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
energooszczędne urządzenia Bluetooth,
and reading various textbooks.
i czytając podręczniki.
to successfully create two prototypes,
stworzenie dwóch prototypów.
is embedded inside a sock,
wbudowany w skarpetę,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
już prawie od roku
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
test beta urządzenia
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
żeby wprowadzić je na rynek.
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
spać w skarpetach.
on a vast number of patients,
uzyskane dzięki wielu pacjentom,
w ulepszaniu opieki nad nimi
for the disease, possibly.
skutecznej metody leczenia.
of a patient's nightly wandering
nocnych wędrówek pacjentów,
jak mój wynalazek po raz pierwszy
is when my device first caught
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
jak bardzo technologia
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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