55 2 Explore The Safe Wander At the age of 15, Kenneth Shinozuka invents The Safe Wander to help his grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. His grandfather keeps walking off at night and can’t remember the way back home. Worried about him, Kenneth asks himself: What if I can make a device that will protect my grandfather from wandering off? Kenneth makes a pair of socks with tiny sensors attached to the heel that his grandfather can wear at night. If he starts walking, Kenneth’s aunt gets a message on her mobile phone. Kenneth’s device has made caretaking so much easier for his aunt and life so much safer for his grandfather. Clocky As a 25-year-old graduate student at MIT Media Lab, Gauri Nanda makes “Clocky” for a class project. One morning she keeps hitting the snooze button and the idea pops into her head: What if I could make an alarm clock that can drag me out of bed? Clocky is an alarm clock that doesn’t take snooze for an answer. It jumps off your nightstand and lands on its a wander – rölt to wander off – að ráfa í burtu to attach – að festa caretaking – að passa einhvern a graduate student – meistaranemi MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology to drag – að draga a nightstand – náttborð Kenneth Shinozuka displaying his invention
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