2010
Entries
The Gen-X Newspaper
Background:
Developments, across most of the urban world.
1.Printed Newspapers are losing money,
2.Losing out to various electronic formats,
We all know what a pain it is to not only install but to the change the batteries in our smoke alarms two times a year. With the Alarm Arm® No Ladder Smoke Alarm Mount you can easily install, maintain,
An alternator is described which has no moving parts and replaces the alternator and belt in current vehicle engines.
The alternator works by using waste heat from the car's internal combustion engine to create electricity, instead of a moving magnetic field.
The largest savings on engine drag will be significant at all speeds due to eliminating the belt drive.
1.Elevator Pitch
The pull tab of most beverage or food containers is difficult to open. I have invented several concepts to make the pull tab “more user friendly”.
2.Key New Features
The most important improvements are simple changes in the shape of the pull tab and/or the containers lids,
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Finally there is an alternative to the common tweezers. H-Square Corporation introduces the new, easy to use Nu-twEZers™.
Used throughout the semiconductor, biotech and many other industries, tweezers have not changed much in 500 years when they were first commercialized. Artifacts of crude tweezers are dated from around 300BC.
48% of US consumers are unhappy with store bought tomatoes. In 2009, 43 million households grew vegetables; 9 million were new to gardening. Tomatoes are one of the most challenging vegetables to grow. Lack of space, expertise, time, sunlight, or unpredictable outdoor conditions prevent home gardeners from successfully growing tomatoes.
It is a common phenomenon that people tend to forget smalls things like Keys Mobile, Purse etc. when they travel or go to some other places carrying these things. We also keep losing these things whenever we are in a hurry.
This is a walking type machine in combination of carriage, and a mobile bridge accompanied by a power generator to drive the bridge and carriage alternatively.
The bridge consists of a rigid frame carrying two rail tracks over which the load of the carriage can be drawn on wheels, forward and backward.
The oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico may never be completely sealed off - this oil capture idea is based on whale hunting behaviour using bubble curtains.
Imagine a fleet of tugboats dropping hundreds of 10,000 psig air bottles overboard in a large circle around the oil leak site.
This is an idea for a more convenient and perhaps even green system to change oil in automobiles. The standard method is to climb under the vehicle and loosen the drain plug from the oil pan and drain fluid, then replace the plug. Also the oil filter must be removed.
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