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The AddVisor™ uses patented technology to allow vehicle occupants to protect their eyes from blinding sunlight and other glare even when the source of that glare falls outside the limitations of their vehicle’s built-in sun visor.
The AddVisor™ is a multi-directional auxiliary sun visor, which attaches to a vehicle’s built-in visor with Velcro straps.
In designing the future I was interested in making several tasks easier by automation and technology. The first is fashion. With a multi-billion dollar fashion industry Nail Polish is a major consumer product. The device I invented combines two iportant function adding and removing nail polish with micro-electronic machines (MEMS) and a consumer friendly and usable design.
Background:
Nowadays security space activities are seriously threatened by space debris, more than 300,000 fragments in orbit. The most orbital debris is from disused LEO satellite. If we do not clean it up, the space debris problem will get worse. I suggest a method for reusing disused LEO observation satellites for the lunar exploration to reduce space debris.
The invention concerns an electrodynamic loudspeaker driver for the reproduction of low frequencies in mid air, dust, gas or liquid.
It consists of a hollow membrane (1) whose faces (1a and b) are spaced apart and joined by a spacer (2) through the internal engine (4, 5, 6, 7, 8) inserted in a housing (11).
Steam Generating Apparatus (SGA) is a small, compact hot water or steam generator using a small motor to spin up to speed for whatever you require.
The SGA device is only 4" in diameter using an AC drive to control a 1HP motor. The system would include a micro processor to set up and tweak your specific application.
A web site that will gather scientist and anyone with good ideas to develop the new generation spacecraft, top migrate to Mars, also fundraising from all around the world, anyone can donate, so its a project from the whole planet not from just a few nations.
eMoTria is a lightweight electric vehicle, specially designed for sustainable mobility in cities and appropriate for a multitude of services. A crossover combining a microcarrier (lightweight quad) and a maxi-scooter, it can be driven without a license. Its width of 1050 mm and 2200 mm long makes it suitable to get into protected urban areas,
The advent of digital cameras have rendered many fine, quality film based 35 m/m cameras obsolete.
Elpipes are polymer-insulated underground HVDC conductors based on low cost extruded metal conductors. Elpipes are designed for higher efficiency than is practical for overhead power lines. For a 325-800kV DC elpipe, we have selected a design basis of 1% loss per 1000 km, about three times better than an overhead 800kVDC line,
Today, data is collected globally from multiple sources via GPS and other handheld devices, stored in the cloud and left to the user to figure out the value of this data, and what to do with it. To create data value requires a data fusion model that consolidates these data silos into one `digital cloud platform,
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