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Why "smart traffic light"? This is because the operation of existing traffic lights requires electricity, a separate control panel and a lot of technical equipment. You also need a permit to install regular traffic lights.
Due to these problems, traffic lights are rarely installed (especially in remote areas) in areas with high passenger traffic (schools, colleges, preschools).
I propose a device regarding “cold therapy” for home and hospital applications. As far as I known, “cold therapy” is still based on traditional ice-packs. Ice-packs can be useful to reduce joint inflammation, improve muscle recovery and in many other circumstances.
Nowadays, because of increasing population, people demand more food, fruits, vegetables, clothes and etc. That’s why highly productive and highest quality is being created by scientists and selektors. But this problem hasn’t been sorted out yet completely.
It is known that, light is needed to nourish plants.
COVIshiild™ is an anti-germ protective appliance based on redirecting the airflow at inhaling, exhaling, speaking, coughing and sneezing to reduce risk of acquiring the germs by user and others. It aims to substitute textile facial masks at various infection outbreaks (like COVID-19) when governments require or suggest an anti-germ face protection,
The management of the COVID19 pandemics requires a difficult trade-off between limiting the spread of the disease and trying to control and limit the horrendous damage to the economy. Opening the United States could relieve economic and psychological pressures but could also lead to a spike in the COVID19 infections. To address this problem,
There have been many great helmet designs for NFL players specifically to minimize the force of impact exerted by or on the players to prevent the players developing concussions. But what happens when player has an impact more than the helmet can protect?
A spray of spherical wastewater droplets into an extremely cold gas causes an ice shell to form and grow thicker and thicker as it falls downward in the spray chamber.
This space-transportation-system proposal is a reusable, optionally-manned, modular spaceplane to transport payloads and/or personnel into low-earth orbit. The emphasis is to reduce the number of maintenance man-hours vs. flight-hours to drastically reduce 'turn-around' time, making the vehicle commercially viable.
This project is about building a safe helmet for NFL players that will help them prevent concussion while playing the game. This is done by using combination of material science with air principle to transfer and distribute the impact force from one point of the helmet to the entire part in order to absorb the impact force.
One of the main problems faced by alcohol industry is product dilution or alteration. Product dilution or alteration means a situation when people drink a bad alcohol drink that has been altered or diluted with different solutions after the alcohol drink has left the licensed legitimate manufacturer’s production line.
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