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Cars are equipped with Advanced Safety Technologies, and when the cars collide with objects these Safety Shock Damping Apparatuses come into action.
Shock Damping Starts from the Bumper then to the Body Frame(Crumple Zone), and then to the Airbags, and the Seatbelts.
But these accident protections mainly process the applied shocks within the car structure itself.
Endoscopes have evolved into highly specialized devices that cost tens of thousands of dollars to purchase and to maintain, yet the complexities of these advanced imaging and surgical access devices obviate sterilization between uses;
Jar Mate (patent pending) is a versatile suite of adapters easily fastening to discarded jars and cans, converting them into attractive stylish vessels for drinking, vases and more. This incentivizes the repurposing of discarded jars, both plastic and glass to keep them out of the costly recycling and waste streams and out of the environment.
A modular solar tower thermal air heating system that heats incoming air twice and also heats a thermal mass that provides heat during night hours . The Solar Tower system is for greenhouses, farm buildings, industrial, commercial buildings , schools, residential and summer cottages.
IDEA/SOLUTION:
• failure to locate faults/problems/ errors etc. instantly
• failure to measure both the infectious pathogen $ the host response in few minutes
{problem to conduct diagnostic test that produces rapid & reliable health status results in 6 mins/instantly},
• failure to produce health status reports that fully disclose each person’s health information scanned: eg critical infection/ illness;
IDEA/SOLUTION:
• failure to locate faults/ problems/ errors etc instantly
• defense during war/ security protection surrounding area:
[proximity sensors: detecting objects/ people getting closer to you {alerting}]
• failure by auto cameras to shoot/ auto fly & scan to capture/record videos, photos,
Automobile displays such as engine temperature and oil pressure are being displaced by audible alarms and readouts on monitors with a simple digital readout for MPH. For the few applications that use a tachometer, its display can be overlaid on the front view when the driver’s hand touches the shift knob.
It is a security tape that prevents the possible theft of your cell phone and falls from it.
Aabey LLC’s mission is to address global food scarcity by fusing 2 innovative industries, technology and agriculture.
It is a minority-owned startup trying to bridge the gap between Technology and Hydroponics, by integrating IIoT design methodologies that transform age-old farming processes into environmentally friendly smart-hydroponic greenhouses. This will enable minimizing water use and other resources,
Using my patented Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process, one plants and then multi-tasks fast and large-growing Bio-Crops, to cost-effectively do good things, powered by sunlight, like capturing large amounts of CO2, remediating air, soil and water, and then making circular economy bio-products from the harvested material,
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