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From the Ted Talk by Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe

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Thank you. (Applause)

Thank you, sock model.

So this is a drawing of my preliminary design.

My desire to create a sensor-based technology perhaps seetmmd from my lifelong love for soernss and thnooclegy. When I was six years old, an elderly family friend fell down in the bathroom and suffered severe iijeruns. I became concerned about my own gtapndnerras and decided to invent a smart bathroom sysetm. miootn sensors would be installed inside the tiles of bathroom floors to detect the falls of elderly pnetatis whenever they fell down in the bathroom. Since I was only six yeras old at the time and I hadn't graduated from kindergarten yet, I didn't have the necessary resources and tools to translate my idea into reality, but nonetheless, my research experience really inaeltpmd in me a firm desire to use sensors to help the elderly people. I really believe that sensors can improve the quality of life of the elderly.

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Thank you. (Applause)

Thank you, sock model.

So this is a drawing of my preliminary design.

My desire to create a sensor-based technology perhaps _______ from my lifelong love for _______ and __________. When I was six years old, an elderly family friend fell down in the bathroom and suffered severe ________. I became concerned about my own ____________ and decided to invent a smart bathroom ______. ______ sensors would be installed inside the tiles of bathroom floors to detect the falls of elderly ________ whenever they fell down in the bathroom. Since I was only six _____ old at the time and I hadn't graduated from kindergarten yet, I didn't have the necessary resources and tools to translate my idea into reality, but nonetheless, my research experience really _________ in me a firm desire to use sensors to help the elderly people. I really believe that sensors can improve the quality of life of the elderly.

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  10. injuries

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Thank you. (Applause)

Thank you, sock model.

So this is a drawing of my preliminary design.

My desire to create a sensor-based technology perhaps stemmed from my lifelong love for sensors and technology. When I was six years old, an elderly family friend fell down in the bathroom and suffered severe injuries. I became concerned about my own grandparents and decided to invent a smart bathroom system. Motion sensors would be installed inside the tiles of bathroom floors to detect the falls of elderly patients whenever they fell down in the bathroom. Since I was only six years old at the time and I hadn't graduated from kindergarten yet, I didn't have the necessary resources and tools to translate my idea into reality, but nonetheless, my research experience really implanted in me a firm desire to use sensors to help the elderly people. I really believe that sensors can improve the quality of life of the elderly.

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