Michael+Hogan

Mike Hogan journal assignment


 * Erez Lieberman-Aiden is a thirty year old graduate student at Harvard and MIT. A couple years ago, Erez’s grandmother had a bad fall and died from it. The event got him thinking that things like this could be prevented with something new. So he took upon himself the task of creating this something that would help older people if they fell. What he ended up creating was the iShoe, a high-tech shoe insole that uses sensors and chips to manage people’s balance. Once the sensors figure out your normal walking pattern, they provide support for you feet in your own unique way to keep you balanced and to prevent falls in older people. Lieberman-Aiden was given a prize of $30,000 from MIT for this invention.**