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The “Pillow Purifier”© is a semi-automated device for cleaning and sanitizing pillows. Bacteria, viruses, dead skin, saliva, oils, hair chemicals, fungi, dust mites and their feces, are among the common items found on the surface and within pillows when a guest is spending the night in a hotel. On rare occasions even lice or fleas.
Patented three piece bracket system used for hanging flat screen televisions and computer monitors in the corner of any room. Simple design makes for much faster and easier assembly than anything else currently on the market. Made of lightweight steel, the brackets may also be manufactured using an injection molding technique.
This presents a bicycle handle assembly, more particularly to a bicycle handle assembly of which the position of the handle grip can be freely adjusted according to the need of the rider, enabling the rider to ride the bicycle in a comfortable position.
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Sol-Stak is an open, small system, embedded prototyping paradigm.
We do a lot of prototyping across multiple vendor systems. Reference designs and software support for these systems are a fragmented, multi-standard, multi-faceted, mess.
Prototyping embedded systems has very particular focus and objectives.
I will try to add a drawing I made several years ago, but this conceptual design is easy to visualize.
Basically this is a rocket launch double escape system conceptual design. The double escape system may also be used for re-entry.
The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo rockets all employed a launch escape system.
Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children, and most occur in residential swimming pools. On average, 5,100 children are treated for submersion ijuries each year, and 383 pool related fatalities reported per year involving children younger than 15 years of age. 76% of reported fatalities were children younger than 5 years of age.
Robot charger.
Intellectual and autonomous (with some exceptions for emergency cases).
Main activity: charge e-vehicle batteries.
Additional activities:
To collect information about free space in parking.
A Home Water Power Station using proven, replicated technologies... Dozens of people have built and shown generators running solely on water as input. The energy is extracted from the Quantum Vacuum, ZPE or ambient, just like the energy that runs your Atoms and Electrons. Have yours ever run down? Do you wind them up each morning?
A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funded research program was performed to develop different technologies to improve the intelligence and reliability of aircraft electrical wiring and interconnector systems. One of the developed technologies is referred to as the SMART (Status and Motion Activated Radiofrequency Tag) sensor.
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