Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
เค็นเน็ท ชิโนซูกะ (Kenneth Shinozuka): งานประดิษฐ์ง่ายๆ ของผม ที่ออกแบบเพื่อให้คุณตาของผมปลอดภัย
Kenneth Shinozuka designs smart products ... He's been doing so since he was in kindergarten. Full bio
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to Americans' health?
is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
triples by the year 2050,
เมื่อถึงปีค.ศ. 2050
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.
ทำให้ครอบครัวของเราเครียดมาก
to keep an eye on him,
to catch him leaving the bed.
ที่ลุกออกจากเตียงได้ไม่ทัน
about my aunt's well-being
that could help my family's problems,
and I saw him stepping out of the bed.
a pressure sensor on the heel of his foot?
and out of the bed,
increase in pressure caused by body weight
to the caregiver's smartphone.
much better at night
about my grandfather's wandering.
a demonstration of this sock.
my sock model on the stage?
steps onto the floor --
to the caregiver's smartphone.
of my preliminary design.
a sensor-based technology
for sensors and technology.
fell down in the bathroom
about my own grandparents
a smart bathroom system.
inside the tiles of bathroom floors
whenever they fell down in the bathroom.
from kindergarten yet,
tools to translate my idea into reality,
to use sensors to help the elderly people.
ที่จะใช้เซนเซอร์ช่วยผู้สูงวัย
the quality of life of the elderly.
that I faced three main challenges:
ผมเผชิญปัญหาใหญ่ 3 อย่าง
เขียนโปรแกรมบนสมาร์ทโฟน
was actually much harder to realize
that was thin and flexible enough
บาง ยืดหยุ่นพอ
on the bottom of the patient's foot.
ที่ส่วนล่างของเท้าคนป่วย
of different materials like rubber,
และทดสอบวัสดุหลายอย่างเช่น ยาง
snugly on the bottom of the foot,
pressure-sensitive ink particles.
ที่ไวต่อแรงกด
between the particles increases.
ระหว่างอนุภาคจะสูงขึ้น
that would measure pressure
a wearable wireless circuit,
ต้องออกแบบวงจรไร้สายที่สวมใส่ได้
consumes lots of power
about the Bluetooth low energy technology,
อย่างบลูทูธ
and can be driven by a coin-sized battery.
ผ่านแบตเตอรี่ขนาดเท่าเหรียญ
from dying in the middle of the night.
that would essentially transform
into a remote monitor.
เป็นเครื่องเฝ้าดูทางไกล
my knowledge of coding with Java and XCode
for Bluetooth low energy devices
and reading various textbooks.
อ่านหนังสือสารพัด
to successfully create two prototypes,
ผมสร้างได้ 2 ต้นแบบ
is embedded inside a sock,
a re-attachable sensor assembly
that makes contact
for about a year now,
known cases of his wandering.
to beta test my device
care facilities in California,
the feedback
into a marketable product.
กับคนป่วยจำนวนมากนั้น
to invent solutions
to wear socks to sleep at night.
on a vast number of patients,
for the disease, possibly.
of a patient's nightly wandering
เตร่ตอนกลางคืน
is when my device first caught
out of bed at night.
by the power of technology
กับพลังของเทคโนโลยี
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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