Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Kenet Šinozuka (Kenneth Shinozuka): Jednostavan izum koji sam napravio da bi moj deda bio bezbedan
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
po zdravlje Amerikanaca?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Alchajmerova bolest.
triples by the year 2050,
utrostručiti do kraja 2050,
the rest of the aging population,
članovima populacije,
societal challenge.
iz prve ruke,
for an Alzheimer's patient.
sa Alchajmerom.
with three generations,
to my grandfather.
sa svojim dedom.
were walking in a park in Japan
I've ever experienced in my life,
trenutaka u mom životu,
instance that informed us
had Alzheimer's disease.
his condition got worse and worse,
se sve više pogoršavalo,
caused my family a lot of stress.
puno stresa mojoj porodici.
to keep an eye on him,
da bi pazila na njega,
to catch him leaving the bed.
da ga primeti kako odlazi.
about my aunt's well-being
za zdravlje svoje tetke,
that could help my family's problems,
koje bi rešilo probleme moje porodice,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
i video ga kako ustaje iz kreveta.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
senzor pritiska na njegovu petu?
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
pritiska uzrokovano težinom tela
to the caregiver's smartphone.
do telefona staratelja.
much better at night
mnogo bolje da spava noću
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
demonstraciju ove čarape.
my sock model on the stage?
može da dođe na pozornicu?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
tehnologiju na bazi senzora
for sensors and technology.
prema senzorima i tehnologiji.
fell down in the bathroom
je pao u kupatilu
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
pametan sistem u kupatilu.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
unutar pločica na podu kupatila
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
u svakom trenutku.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
da bih moju ideju preveo u stvarnost,
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
senzora za pomoć starijim ljudima.
the quality of life of the elderly.
poboljšati kvalitet života starijih ljudi.
that I faced three main challenges:
da se suočavam sa tri glavna izazova:
was actually much harder to realize
mnogo teže realizovati,
that was thin and flexible enough
dovoljno tanak i fleksibilan
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
of different materials like rubber,
raznih materijala, poput gume,
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
sa lakoćom da se nosi na stopalu,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
provodljivim i osetljivim na pritisak.
between the particles increases.
veza između čestica se povećava.
that would measure pressure
koje bi merilo pritisak
a wearable wireless circuit,
nosivo bežično strujno kolo
consumes lots of power
troši dosta energije
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
tehnologiji Blututa,
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
sa baterijom veličine novčića.
from dying in the middle of the night.
da prestane da radi usred noći.
that would essentially transform
koja bi u osnovi transformisala
into a remote monitor.
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
kodiranja sa Javom i XCode-om
for Bluetooth low energy devices
Blutut niskoenergetskih uređaja,
and reading various textbooks.
i čitajući razne knjige.
to successfully create two prototypes,
napravio sam dva uspešna prototipa,
is embedded inside a sock,
ugrađen unutar čarape,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
bilo gde postoji kontakt
for about a year now,
već godinu dana,
known cases of his wandering.
slučajeva njegovih lutanja.
to beta test my device
beta testiranje svog uređaja
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
da nose čarape tokom spavanja.
on a vast number of patients,
sa velikog broja pacijenata
u poboljšanju nege pacijenata
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
noćnih lutanja pacijenata
ili ishrane.
is when my device first caught
kada je moj uređaj prvi put registrovao
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
očaran mogućnostima tehnologije
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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