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Many people fall out of beds. Although the height of fall is less than 1½ ft. (½ m), resulting injury could be high to fatal because the person who falls from bed is generally unaware he (= she) is going to fall and hence unable to use any instinctive or planned tactic to minimize damage.
MOTIVATION:
Catheters are often inserted into a wrist artery for procedures like angiography. When done, entry zone must be tightly sealed for about 48 hours to prevent blood under pressure from leaking out while entry closes. Normally, an adhesive bandage 'compression wrap' is tightly wound round the wrist at puncture site and clamped at end to prevent unraveling.
Where do you set your tote when no table is available? On the floor!
Enter the the High Helper, the first and only pop up tote that places activity items comfortably within reach. It quickly transforms from an easy to carry compact size to a convenient working height that eliminates bending to retrieve items off the floor.
“A device which helps people to find their misplaced TV remotes & keys”
INTRODUCTION:-
This idea came to my mind when I was searching for keys in urgency and I found them in my mini pocket after half an hour! This happens with many of us not only in case of keys but also with television remotes, air conditioning, coolers, etc.
People are bedridden temporary or permanently for many causes. At this time leaving of excreta and urine is vary suffering work to his/her family or nurse maid. At hospital it is displeasure for another person. To avoid this, I have think an idea, of bed with bio-toilet.
For this system,
Washing of a water tank is painful work. At present washing of tank is done by entering into the tank. But this process is very painful for a hot country. Men are feeling distress after or during washing time. Plus, the tank is not well washed manually. Because workers are weak after a few times.
It is necessary to decrease use of conventional energy to save the world from pollution, warming and limited stock of fuel. Continuously research is running by many researcher/scientist and we have gained muchany success. I am not a scientist or researcher; I am an innovator only.
An earthquake is a big problem for multistoried buildings. Many multistoried building are being build un-scientifically, which create an earthquake prone area and for it earthquake is occurring at new area. Many technologies have been developed to save the multistoried building but no technology is able to save from long time’s strong earthquake.
The series of vessels are created from one basic form. By adding two basic forms, we get a new shape (vase / vessel). When the cut level of this form is changed, we get the following new forms. Having one basic form we can get a different product. Possible materials: ceramics. Also,
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