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The haptic puppet is a human participant linked to a hydraulic humanoid (avatar) with full proportional feedback. This is accomplished by a wireless synchronized system of near real-time bi-directional proportional feedback. The technical name is an Electro-Hydraulic Interactive Double Feedback Loop.
Two devices, one being a mechanical suit for a person,
IMPLOTURBOCOMPRESSOR; One Moving Part System Excellence Design - The InFlow Interaction comes from Macro-Flow and goes to Micro-Flow by Implosion - Only One Compression Step; Inflow, Compression and outflow at one simple circular dynamic motion Concept.
*·“Excellence in Design" because is only one moving part. Only one unique compression step.
1-Gearturbine RotaryTurbo:
*1-GEARTURBINE PROJECT
Rotary-Turbo-InFlow Tech
Atypical InFlow Thermodynamic
Technology Proposal Submission
Novel Fueled Motor Engine Type
State of the art Innovative concept Top system Higher efficient percent.*Power by bar, for Air-Planes, Sea-Boats, Land-Transport & Dynamic Power-Plant Generation.
Clinical Motivation: Heart failure, a clinical syndrome resulting in impairment of ventricular filling or the ejection of blood is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality across the world. Left ventricular remodeling, a mechanistic response to myocardial injury, has been shown to underlie the progression to heart failure. As such,
By combining hydrogen peroxide fog (h2O2) and eighteen 95 watt UV-C lamps (1,710 watts total) in a sequence therapy, uv-c shadowing is minimized and sanitizing bacteria and fungus is more thorough on hard to reach surfaces. The robot is pre-rogrammed by room size and maintenance personal enter the room number,
We start up Universal Basic Income sources venture alliances of World Micro Stock Exchange, a global crowdfunding tender/bid of micro shareholding value proposition big data consuming e-direction devices & policy of FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain,
LED video displays are a $15B market. It is also the last passive-matrix video device in production. The existing process uses discrete LEDs on conventional PCBs. With a passive backplane, all the image artifacts, 
Large amounts of used cars that are written off in Europe are shipped to Africa for a ‘second life’. This results in a high demand for spare parts to sustain this life.
I am Obasogie Okpamen from Landmark University, Nigeria.
Most ceiling fans run even when nobody is around! What if fans can sense that no one is in a room, slow down and switch itself off? Ceiling fans are static too. What if fans can swing right to left and left to right in a slow motion?
The emission solution building is a good way to deal with pollution . This concept can make the air cleaner . produces more ozone . Which can make better environment we live in . We need a place that is about 4 acres .We will make a plastic frame 12 x 12 columns that is 220 ft high .
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