9/15/2014 – Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer’s Patients
Sep 15, 2014
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According to the Alzheimer’s Association, of the estimated five million Americans with the disease, about 60 percent of them wander — and often become dangerously lost — as a result.
A fifteen-year-old has invented a pressure sensor that when worn on the bottom of the foot or with a sock detects an increase in pressure and wirelessly sends an alert to a caregiver’s smartphone.
Read the full article at NBC News.