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Embossing is an intelligent way to make life easy for blind people. Buttons, types, even banknotes carry embossing for the blind.
Recent technology can scan objects as 3D point cloud with laser or infrared beam, and recent technology can create variable reliefs and embossing with liquid magnets or other ways.
Shoot To Kill Forest Fires
Spraying water or fire retardant on a forest fire is effective. However it is cumbersome and endangers people on the ground or those flying tankers overhead.
Here is another way:
If you ever removed ice from an ice tray before the water was completely frozen,
EggXellent Passenger Compartment
All the safety features built into vehicles don’t change the fact that people die in auto accidents.
Nature tries to show that an object in motion tends to remain in motion, and the passengers are throw from the car, mostly through the windshield. We fight this law by belting our passengers in,
Introduction:
Belt is sufficient to engage the input pulley to the output pulley, without torque converter/ clutch system. The objective is to make the CVT simple and cost effective.
At the time of belt engagement, input pulley driven by engine and output pulley driven by electric motor are rotating at same speed and direction.
Everyday the media brings us the horrible news on road accidents. How to investigate the cause of an accident by recording some data like alcohol sensing, location and speed etc. is presented in this project.
This is my support system for retractable flat screen monitor room tables. Remember how disturbing the monitor on the table was during the meeting? My system includes a tubular support element (a rectangular development) which, on the one hand, has a plate for the attachment of a flat panel monitor and, on the other hand,
All technologies listed are based on high-frequency PWM power electronics, magnetics, and rotational dynamics; and are synergistic with each other. They include brushless regenerative DC motors, DC generators, DC kinetic battery, PV power maximizer electronics, motor-wheels for onboard solar-powered EV. Except for the EV, prototypes have been tested. Performance agrees with design analysis results.
Abstract: Study of Lizard DNA and their ability to regrow their tail again & as there is some human part that also regrow like hair and nails, study of the amino acids & proteins that are responsible for the growth.
The exact mechanism of how these animals can regenerate is not currently well understood.
I have three US patents for different embodiments of an auto safety bumper invention.
Cars must become smaller and lighter to meet government CAFE rules. Today, small cars are less safe in collisions than larger cars. The small cars don't have large crumple zones. In fact,
A large number of deaths occur due to automobile accidents every day, most of which occur due to slow response from emergency services. Another reason is complete disability of the individual at the time of impact. Setting up an automatic response in automobiles to call for emergency services can save lives to a greater scale.
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