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Problem: In-flight entertainment (IFE) refers to the entertainment available to aircraft passengers during a flight which provides the joy of flying while letting the airline recover its cost and increase profits. Due to increasing fuel costs and energy saving,
Problem: According to the US Center for Disease Control, an approximate 6 million people in the US suffer from chronic wounds caused by diabetes, circulatory problems and other conditions. An additional 1 million people have acute wounds including burns, lacerations and traumatic wounds each year.
I propose a new approach to implementing vehicular Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) which is more economical and ecological than existing systems mass-deployed in the market to date, with significant advantages, the foremost being the passive non-electronic sending unit (inside the tire) thereby eliminating RF electronics,
Various are the reasons why a person uses a wheelchair. sometimes for a short time (a rehabilitation) and others, unfortunately, for a lifetime. People who use a wheelchair usually run into a number of factors external to their own injury. that limit, inconvenience, and sometimes prohibit increases the lesion,
Ever watched someone welding on TV? If you have the spark never hurt your eyes cause the TV is not able to produce a spark that bright to harm your eyes.
A sufficient number of jet engines suffer bird strikes that cause damage to the aircraft and occasionally loss of human life. Other than using methods to try and deter birds from gathering around airports,
A system for replicating high resolution surfaces, in this case a prosthetic surface. Mirroring and replicating a lost limb with personal detail including fingerprints and as fine as blood vessel and nerve fiber matrix interfaces. Patented methods for reproducing a 3D object surface are the base of the system.
Have you ever wondered how exciting it would be to generate power from our own bodies while staying healthy at the same time? Well, here comes the ‘E-Go’ bike. Call it eco-friendly or a generator, for us it is simply derived from the word ‘ego.
Mi invention consist of a video device that can be installed in any vehicle in order to have a way to maintain a constant monitoring of the daily driving each individual performs.
This device is built using up to four modules, each module has a video camera,
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,
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