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Space Rover (sometimes referred to as a Spacebot Cowboy)
Recently while listening to news describing how space junk was threatening the Space Station I thought of how I used to use an R/C power boat to corral balls that had gone into the water while playing beach volleyball.
Concept
The Type II is a small leaning vehicle that combines the maneuverability of a motorcycle with the safety and stability of a car. It employs an innovative direct-link leaning mechanism that allows it to shift its center of gravity into a turn.
A means of ducting and venting the heat from the heat exchanger of a refrigerator to the outside so that the heat doesn't need to be removed a second time by the home air conditioning system, thus saving energy. The vent would be ducted out of the home by the duct systems currently in use for venting cloths dryers.
Every year thousands of fishermen/people die in sea because either they are lost or stuck in the middle of nowhere after hitting a sea storm.
The idea is to have multiple floating drums in sea, communicating with each other and helping lost/stuck people.
The REOSE Solar Panel House is a home that is completely built with steel, structurally insulated solar panels (SSISP). The REOSE SSISP are unique because they are the only structural building material that collects, transfers, stores and converts solar photovoltaic and solar thermal energy flows into useful, and mindful work.
Traditional building designs reject the summer’s sun,
Sensory Processing Disorder [SPD] is a neurological condition wherein people have difficulties with taking in, processing, and responding to sensory information about the environment and from within the own bodies. This type of neurological misalignment is known to affect a large range of people from attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, hypersensitivity, to those with hypo-sensitivities such as autism.
Congested urban areas need mass transit the worst and are by far the most difficult to introduce mass transit to. This is do to existing development, high land cost, right-off-way issues, unpopularity of imminent domain, etc.
The elevating of trains and monorails for mass transit are nothing new,
Until now, tooth brush and tooth paste have been seen as separate items. Also, using traditional tooth brushes, it proved difficult to apply the tooth paste or fluoride rinse solution directly into the deepest crevices & spaces of the teeth.
The three most popular hand tools used by the human race are the hammer, screw driver and ratchet wrench. Sales for these tools increase annually due to their universal appeal and usefulness. Tool sales in 2010 were $15.5B in the US and $43B worldwide according to the Freedonia Report on Power and Hand Tools.
The grand objective of this invention is to minimize traffic congestion problem everywhere and to deliver savings in time, fuel, productivity and mental well being of the society. With increasing population, convergence of demographic towards urban areas and increasing fuel costs, traffic congestion problem will exacerbate over time leading to greater economic losses to our society.
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