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Rain water conservation method applicable to urban, suburban and rural residences. Water creates an environment for life to happen. Allowing for plants and trees to fruit making nourishment for other organisms. Water can make an environment more pleasing to be in. For example allowing the creation of gardens and grass lawns.
This system is consists of a fly wheel and a pulley connected together by a belt. As the fly wheel stores energy, it will increase the torque of motor. The fly wheel is powered by an electric motor. The wheel drives the pulley that is connected to an electric generator.
EnableRx – Enabling technologies for next generation medical diagnostics
Our Mission: EnableRx is an organization dedicated to creating innovative, low-cost, modular, scalable and interoperable telemedicine solutions that can be implemented across the planet and in space applications. Our goal is to provide medical diagnostic and device solutions that take advantage of the internet,
Innovation: To my knowledge no previous devices using acoustics have been manufactured to detect fires in homes just prior to become a full blaze. This device is unique because it will detect the fire just as is starting between walls and no visible or smell of smoke is present to warn of developed danger.
The state of the art solution proposed herein involves the introduction of components made from 2 newly-described, patent-pending crystalline alloys, which compose a multi-sectional pre-fabricated alloy girder-pin frame, which surrounds the entire oil platform (from the vertical level of the platform, all the way down to the mud of the ocean floor).
This revolutionary, continuously spinning, 360 degree panoramic, holographic, remotely controlled zoom camera achieves its real time 360 degree omni-directional panoramic stereo color (or stereo color-infrared ) real time images via the use of a set of precisely-aligned “Synchronously-Rotating Linear Triplex Lenses” (Patents Pending) and a matched and aligned set of linear CCD sensors.
There are over 2 million wheelchair users in the United States, the vast majority of whom use manual wheelchairs. While development of manual chairs in areas such as weight and comfort have continued, development for convenience and utility have languished.
Consideration for how an individual carries all of the things that able bodied people take for granted: cell phones,
Cargo theft in the United States has reached gigantic proportions. Trailer and/or commodity theft by deception is not uncommon, and a disturbing number of those thefts (40% by some estimates) involve driver and warehouse personnel complicity.
This patented system consists of a communications terminal, located in the truck, which is preprogrammed at the trucking company to include driver name,
Standing Support System: In the practice of surgery, dentistry and other clinical procedures which require long periods of standing while intently focused on the critical task at hand there is a well understood need to provide a means of reducing the strain associated with leaning, bending,
Project description:
This project is a creative work focused on designing an intelligent living space for the physically challenged with advanced control over various entities around. In this project we present an integrated system that uses both Voice and Touch as a natural input to provide user-friendly access to information and entertainment devices,
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