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The Bowman |
Page Views: 223 |
Consumer |
| robert brown jr, warner robins, GA US |
Votes: 1 |
10/30/2008 |
Problem and Potential Benefits: Disparity exists in quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time or while traveling between a boy and man’s hair management accessory for binding, grasping, securing and holding hair in place as compared to a girl and woman as related to hair clasps which binds, secures, grasps or holds hair in a pony-tail, dreadlocks, plat, or braid regardless of age. Today’s women and girls are using various kinds
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Comfort Glove |
Page Views: 210 |
Medical |
| Ganesh Yelisetty, Upland, CA US |
Votes: 13 |
10/23/2008 |
People who have arthritis in their fingers have a very tough time opening and closing, to say the least. Making a fist would be very painful. The pain in severe cases can be excruciating.
The device I have invented is a ‘Comfort Glove’.
I am using air and possibly heat to give comfort.
This glove is similar in function to a ‘blood pressure cuff’ that people are so well used to.
In addition to looking like a nice glove
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Astrapi |
Page Views: 222 |
Consumer |
| Ganesh Yelisetty, Upland, CA US |
Votes: 7 |
10/23/2008 |
USA is a melting pot of various cultures. Several languages other than English is spoken / written all over in big cities. This situation is not just in USA, it exists in most developed nations.
Regardless of how people think of ‘fast food’ is here to stay.
Millions of people have ‘fast food’ everyday. Going through the drive-thru is as normal as breathing.
Anybody who has used the drive-thru knows how hard it can get sometimes to
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enertree |
Page Views: 203 |
Sustainable Technology |
| David Breske, Blacksburg, VA US |
Votes: 4 |
10/21/2008 |
Most of the energy wasted in the typical home is the result of devices that are not in use. Things like TV's, computers, lamps, and overhead lighting are often left on and forgotten about, which contributes to environmental drain and expensive electric bills. Enertree solves this lack of awareness by notifying users of when and where a house is wasting energy and uses the metaphor of a tree to draw attention to the negative effects
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CAM ROLL FLANGE UNIT |
Page Views: 358 |
Machinery/Equipment |
| JOHN JUSTICE, PARK RIDGE, IL US |
Votes: 11 |
10/18/2008 |
The CAM ROLL FLANGE UNIT would replace a typical flange bearing on slower speed shaft machinery. Particularly, steel shot abrasive throwing equipment. The unit would provide bearing support for media screws and media elevator shafting. The advantage is that the CAM ROLL FLANGE UNIT may be restored while on the machine by replacing individual cam rolls running on a hardened, two-piece shaft race. This eliminates the need to remove gear reducers, pulleys, sprockets, motors, and
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i-Shoes |
Page Views: 279 |
Consumer |
| Alejandro Sepulveda, Bogotá, CO |
Votes: 5 |
10/18/2008 |
We wondered what would happen if the shoes not only protect the feet but also could be a transmitter of sensations?
This is how these shoes would work:
- The sole is composed of nanite that perform a reading of the terrain.
- After doing a reading of the terrain, the nanite transcend the characteristics of the land inside the shoe.
Result: the person perceives the characteristics of the land inside the shoe.
We proposed that persons who will use
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M.I. Caddy: Medical Information Caddy |
Page Views: 212 |
Medical |
| Kelsie Liberman, Blacksburg, VA US |
Votes: 7 |
10/18/2008 |
Paperwork. It is the first thing and the last thing you endure when visiting any medical facility where you are to receive treatment. When you walk into the building, you aren’t only greeted by the dreary waiting room that who knows how long they will be sitting there, but also the realization that there will be a stack of medical history and information sheets waiting for you at the receptionist’s desk. This stack consists of
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ECO Street lights |
Page Views: 275 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Guilhem Lamour, Plaisir, FR |
Votes: 12 |
10/17/2008 |
Cities consume a lot of energy into street lighting. Thanks to PV panels and little vertical axis windmills integrated into the design, this sleek urban furniture is going to produce its own energy requirements and a lot more. It is going to be pluged to the city grid and produce electricity night and day. Longlasting and efficient 100 W Led lights will provide light at night.
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New Technology Provides Reliable, Less Expensive, Dynamic Control Of Air And Watercraft Propeller Pitch |
Page Views: 266 |
Transportation |
| G Paul Baker JR, Denham Springs, LA US |
Votes: 11 |
10/17/2008 |
Currently, propeller pitch control uses three approaches: it is based upon either hydrolic oil pressure, mechanical control using lateral motion along the axis of the drive shaft, or electric motor control with the drive motor embedded in the hub. All three of these techniques are either expensive to manufacture and install, or expensive to maintain due to high wear rates or the close machine tolerances required.
The First Image is a conceptual sketch of the Angular
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Ablative, Prestressed Body Armor |
Page Views: 243 |
Safety and Security |
| Norm Looper, San Diego, CA US |
Votes: 8 |
10/17/2008 |
BACKGROUND. Heretofore, soft body armor using Kevlar layering, or heavy armor employing hardened alloys and ceramics have provided substantial, yet marginal, protection for our troops and police against bullets and IED shrapnel.
Computational estimates involving meteorite impacts, thin-shell lamina, and the design of ablating re-entry vehicles, suggest a composite layering for helmets and body armor that can defeat penetrations by extraordinarily high velocity projectiles.
HOW THE ARMOR IS MADE. See Figure 1. Recent advances in
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Uplift |
Page Views: 272 |
Machinery/Equipment |
| Matthew Moore, Blacksburg, VA US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, back injuries account for one of every five injuries and illnesses in the workplace. Eighty percent of these injuries occur to the lower back and are associated with manual materials handling. Small shops and businesses are largely affected by this. They typically use multiple workers to manually lift heavy objects; this saves money by not purchasing a material handling device, but is straining on workers.
Current material handling
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Medical/Military Modular fridge |
Page Views: 318 |
Medical |
| Gary Woods, Toronto, ON CA |
Votes: 16 |
10/17/2008 |
My ECO-Accessible fridge was also built to be Fire/Explosion-Resistant to meet the new EPA Codes for Blood Storage in Medical Labs.
The Modular concept makes the Fridge a Light-weight unit and its strength makes for a perfect Emergency Rescue unit to be flown into a crisis.
The Tool-Free assemble reduces the Out-Of-The-Box time period to get it up and running , plus it is also a Cordless design with a Power-bar interface and WiFi/iPhone system
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Electromagnetic shock absorber/spring combination unit |
Page Views: 242 |
Transportation |
| Leslie Rubinstein, Frederick, MD US |
Votes: 9 |
10/17/2008 |
This device combines the action of a vehicle’s shock absorber and springs. Two of the major components of a suspension system are shock absorbers and springs. At first glance, they seem to have completely opposite effects; the spring bounces back, and the shock absorber keeps you from bouncing back. In actual fact, however, the difference is simply a matter of how energy is used. In the case of a spring, the energy from the movement
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Staircase roller for suitcases |
Page Views: 259 |
Consumer |
| Raj Thangavelu, Cambridge, ON CA |
Votes: 5 |
10/17/2008 |
This stair case roller is an attachment to heavy suitcases that need to be carried over staircases.Even now in many cases going through staicases is the most difficult part of travelling where there is no escalator facilities.This add on rollers can be attached through straps that can be tightened on to the suitcases and pulled through staircases without lifting them.This can acommodate any type of stircase heights and slopes.By making the front wheels swivelling this
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ROBOT ACTUATOR |
Page Views: 334 |
Machinery/Equipment |
| James Bushner, Allentown, PA US |
Votes: 7 |
10/17/2008 |
ROBOT ACTUATOR
CHALLENGE:
Design an actuator for use on two-legged walking robots that can survive a trip, fall or tumble down the stairs without major damage to the actuators. The solution uses a hydraulic cylinder and piston with dual rods. The invention is the composite piston, which includes a hydraulic pump, electric motor and relief valves and is referred to as the pumping piston.
DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN:
Figure 1: The electric actuator comprises a hydraulic cylinder (1) containing:
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Kernel Housing Prototype |
Page Views: 241 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Ella Stelter, New Orleans, LA US |
Votes: 10 |
10/17/2008 |
Manufactured housing, the most common solution to market rate affordable housing in the States, has many unique issues. They come with higher interest rates and shorter loan terms when compared to traditional housing, are subject to stricter zoning regulations and depreciate faster when compared to traditional housing. Modular and pre-fabricated housing has also been proposed as a solution, but shares problems such as lack of local contextualization and flexibility with manufactured housing. They also fail
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Wind Powered Power Supply for car travel |
Page Views: 340 |
Consumer |
| Doyle Dowd, Monroe, GA US |
Votes: 4 |
10/17/2008 |
A tubular shaped object about 6 to 10 inches long that hangs outside of an automobile window, inside is a fan attached to small electric generator approximately the size of a hobby motor. Out of the side of the object is a flat ribbon cable that is routed over the rolled up window of the automobile. The other end of the ribbon cable is a module that holds rechargable batteries and/or a voltage jack that
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NEUTRAX: The High Speed Environment-Friendly Transport System |
Page Views: 268 |
Sustainable Technology |
| Balint Szent-Miklosy, New York, NY US |
Votes: 7 |
10/17/2008 |
NEUTRAX: The High Speed Underwater Transportation
NEUTRAX is a system that provides a new type of high-speed underwater transportation. Using the same technology we use for laying communication cables under the sea, we provide a coastal, underwater system to connect major transit hubs that are situated on major waterways. However, instead of communication cables, these tubes will be made to float under water with air pockets neutralizing the freight within the tube. Instead of traveling
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D.O.T - Direct On-Demand Transport |
Page Views: 310 |
Transportation |
| Varun Singh, Coventry, NA GB |
Votes: 10 |
10/17/2008 |
Cities in the near future are set to become a cluster of multiple hubs that are spread out much further than what we see today. This residents of this 'Urban Sprawl' will make daily trips to a from a multitude of destinations making large scale mass transit systems inefficient in dealing with fragmented journey patterns. The reliance on high cost and high impact infrastructure would become meaningless as governments push towards carbon neutrality. To eliminate
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BELLEZZA-LUMINO Electrical Wall Switch Plate Cover |
Page Views: 296 |
Safety and Security |
| James D. Fraser, Chardon, OH US |
Votes: 4 |
10/17/2008 |
The BELLEZZA-LUMINO Electrical Wall Switch Plate Cover is for commercial or residential use. It is made of a 1.5mm veneer of 100% Natural Stone; Granite, Marble, ONYX, Jade and others. The single or multiple switch cover is availble in varying styles to match literally any type wall swith cover on the market. Such covers may include as an option: an intermediate 1/2mm film layer that will illuminate the stone automatically at dusk and will go
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