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Currently, all projector screens are merely blank faces which reflect back light. This light is largely wasted. Although still in the very early stages of development, the idea is to create a projector screen that would be able to absorb light energy from the projector as well as reflect sufficient lighting back to the audience.
Gas and electric cooktops should have automatic shut-off timers on them such as microwave ovens have. Think of all the increased safety with automatic shut-off features. No more ruined meals, houses and apartment kitchen fires, ruined pots and pans, etc.
The new cooktops with wireless apps could be turned on an off by even a cell phone.
Would you like to be able to pick an orange in your family room in the middle of winter? How about having a leading-edge, plus-net energy home in which fruit grows profusely (those are bananas growing in our client’s family room in the cold, wet Pacific Northwest) yet there is no mechanical heating or air conditioning used?
The Cradle-to-Cradle, self-sustaining, zero-net energy city of the future is fast coming to fruition.
A half century ago, learned people were forecasting that by the turn of the century the world would not have enough food or fuel and pollution would dominate the earth. So,
Built-in firearm-identifying RF tag, system to broadcast tags reported stolen, and self-destruct mechanism inside the firearm, activated wirelessly if/when that firearm is stolen, by matching its tag with broadcast tags.
Stolen firearms threaten society. Most enter the realm of crime, providing an ever-growing supply of weapons whose availability is detrimental to civility.
The "acoustic Lazarillo" is a system that gives independence to a blind person to move normally.
The system has two motion sensors: one conditioned on the sunglasses that measures the distances of the blind person to other persons or objects placed before him, and the second, put on a stick that serves to identify potential gaps, steps, etc. ,
This machine is based off of electrolysis that has been a known format of extracting hydrogen. We know about electrolysis and how it works. The question is have we done all that we can. I propose a different way of thinking about the process.
Fastener pieces are supporting a load and vibration that it make ideal to use piezoelectric material for an energy harvester. The forces can be compression or tension, many times both in the same element. It can be use to maximize the electric output.
The simplest element is the washer. It is easy to make and cheap.
With 17.3 million deaths in 2008, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death and disability in the world, increasing tendency (source: WHO). This leads to the necessity of simple and cheap monitoring systems to spot cardiac pathologies and diseases already at an early stage.
Since several decades,
A handheld shower head fed by the traditional hose except with a reservoir for adding either bar soap or liquid soap, a switching valve to bypass the soap reservoir or not, and a rotating bristle brush (replaceable) in the head - rotation activated by the hydraulic pressure from the water supply.
Various spray patterns - some that activate brush rotation.
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