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The current market offering for outdoor lounging chairs no longer satisfies growing customer expectations for relaxation & comfort. Loungers struggle with having to manually move todays lounge chairs for ideal sun/shade direction which creates chair disarray and frustrations outdoors. Sunbathers have to enter the water if they get too hot which interrupts their sun bathing and sunscreen experience.
ProstaGlove® is a novel medical device designed to measure prostate volume and enable calculation of PSA Density, which can be used to identify men with elevated PSA who are at high risk for clinically significant prostate cancer who should be recommended for Prostate Biopsy, saving billions of dollars through avoided biopsies and reduced overtreatment of non-aggressive prostate cancer.
The ADCDS-1801 is an industry-leading, application specific CCD image converter designed for electronic-imaging applications that employ CCD's (charge coupled devices) as their photodetector. The ADCDS-1801 incorporates a "user configurable" input amplifier, a CDS (correlated double sampler) and an 18-bit resolution sampling A/D converter in a single package, providing the user with a complete,
Let me tell you my story ...
I live in Don's pocket, I am his pocket pet and I go everywhere, well, almost everywhere.
I don't do showers!
When he is alone and needs someone to talk to, (in English, sometimes French and even Chinese), well, he talks to me. And using my 6 fingers,
Create a sealable and disposable filter pouch for drip or percolating coffee machines.
Most drip or percolating coffee machines have open filters that users pour coffee grounds into; however, once the coffee is made the used, wet coffee grounds in the used, wet filter pose a problem when throwing them away.
Today's satellite propulsion systems cost upwards of $15MM, were designed before the first handheld calculator was invented, and are impossible to miniaturize to accommodate smaller satellites. Over the past five years, these small satellites have become increasingly capable, but are being launched without propulsion for pointing their antennae or cameras, reorienting themselves in orbit or relative to one another,
Today, solar cells are one of the most important applications of solar energy. But these solar cells face a serious problem because its efficiency cannot exceed 20%. This means solar cells are characterized with high cost or low quality. So we aim to make the sun rays to be perpendicular to plate face.
The Telescopic Collapsible Shelter is designed keeping in mind the typical Indian conditions. It is a common road side scene in any Indian cities and towns to find small road side temporary shops. These shops occupy space available on the sides of the road or footpaths or sometimes even roads. Similarly in the weekly marketplace
SUPERSONIC LIQUID DROPLET LAUNCHER:
An idea to provide a repetitive stream of liquid drops at supersonic velocity.
BACKGROUND:
A Need Exists To Launch Mach>3 Droplets At Optical Components For Erosion Studies On High Mach Number Vehicles.
The headspace in containers for liquid and viscous products may originally be oxygen-free, but as the content is depleted, air is taken in and the oxygen concentration rises.
Bag-in-bottle solutions have separated content from the atmosphere by placing it in a flaccid inner container surrounded by a semi-rigid, flexible outer compartment containing air.
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