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This invention relates to a method for advertising the baking products by producing visible inscriptions such as drawings, words, slogans or inscriptions, the method being intended for the advertising industry for the large-scale engraving of bakery products in the promotion of any sign Products or names of companies in any field of activity,
"It's raining shelters, not bombs."
Life Capsules is a humanitarian project aiming to save living beings fleeing wars or natural disasters after the destruction of their communities. The compressed lightweight structure can be thrown from airplanes providing shelters for people in danger.
The lamp is a light-emitting diode (LED) product assembled in series and parallel for use in lighting fixtures. It’s an upgrade of SHEKARAU LAMP you know. It has a lifespan and efficiency (electrical and mechanical) more than existing Shekarau lamps, and are significantly more efficient than 26 watt compact fluorescent lamps.
ReaLifeSim & VetLifeSim are human-centered; patient-centered products that are created and tested by nurses, medics, veterinarians and other clinicians.
The wearable ReaLifeSim Vas-sleeve is the first of its kind to integrate realistic simulated skin and blood vessels with aerospace industry technology providing objective recordings for skills assessment.
Affordable,
Pl4NO is a neo futuristic shoe, made from one single material, mounted by the user, without differentiation between the left or the right foot. This minimalist shoe doesn't need glue, seam, or any other kind of fixation material whatsoever, being structured only by notch mechanisms.
Inspired by the visionary composer and architect Iánnis Xenákis and his graphic projects of composition,
Abstract:
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 800,000 a year (1 in 3 deaths). Heart attacks are an unpredictable emergency situation which is difficult to monitor and predict before permanent damage occurs. Once a patient is at the hospital symptoms may have subsided,
If current advances in drone construction, automatic flying, and battery storage capacity will follow their expected trends, in a few years we will see personal flying cars as well as delivery drones in our skies. To face such innovations, initially buildings, later cities, will be transformed to accommodate such novelties.
Andean indigenous people are settling in highland and low temperate valleys in which they are farmers using very ancient technology to optimize the land and water resources. About two million Aymara live in Bolivia, five hundred thousand in Peru, and one hundred thousand in Chile They built an agriculture systems with terracing, canals and irrigation works,
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