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A 21st Century bed: The Nest

A major problem for many people is getting good sleep. Poor sleep can occur in a home, a hotel or a hospital. Sleep is affected by light, sound, temperature, odor, bed support and sense of security. Another sleep related problem is that electrical control in bedrooms, such as light switches and alarms, are difficult to control in the dark.

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Stanley Stephenson
Rochester, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 5852
Consumer Products
Mar 1, 2011

A Better Volume Control on Remotes

Erratic volume is a basic annoyance of television viewing. From commercials increasing in volume to loud scenes in movies, there are times when you need to dive for the volume control. There are several strategies of automatically reducing volume for sudden increases, however,

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Arthur Orchel
Franklin, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4568
Consumer Products
Jun 30, 2011

A Building as a Living Body

An intelligent building is a building that is able to monitor and control its own functionalities, according to the building structure, indoor and outdoor environment. The functionalities and their characteristics are directly related to building scope (the activities accomplished by the occupants), but usually are the same. Most of the necessary functionalities have been already determined,

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Catalin Bujdei
Brasov, Romania
Votes: 0
Views: 6881
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 27, 2011

A Cheap, Web-Enabled Home Sensor Network

The smart home of the future has been just out of the consumer’s reach for decades. We constantly read stories about how our homes will turn down the temperature when we leave, turn on the lights when we enter, or call the police and text us when home security has been breached,

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Andrew Anganes
Lowell, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5414
Consumer Products
Jun 16, 2011

A Comprehensive Approach to Hydrogen Fuel

Changing the fuel source for motor vehicles requires a comprehensive approach because of the already established infrastructure and supply of petroleum based fuels. In addition to the lack of infrastructure, it is recognized that hydrogen fuel will not be commercially viable unless competing against gasoline of well over $4.00 US per US Gallon.

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Stephen Brown
Woodbridge, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5116
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2011

A Device for Stopping Explosions at Nuclear Plants

With recent explosions of hydrogen in Japanese nuclear plants there is a need for a device that will stop an explosion of hydrogen/oxygen in an enclosed system regardless of the magnitude of the explosion. A Detonation Flame Arrestor (DFA) is designed to extinguish a flame front resulting from an explosion or detonation of a gas in a piping system.

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Dwight Brooker
Chiefland, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 7457
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 22, 2011

A Dirigible that Should be Developed

Helium is very expensive to use in a dirigible and even in a larger balloon or a non-rigged air ship. Some of us even after all this time since the Hindenburg crashed in flames, consider hydrogen as being dangerous. This is a false reason about not using hydrogen. Today, hydrogen with modern technologies,

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Ronald Kotas
North Fort Myers, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 4890
Transportation
May 27, 2011

A Lightweight Composite Panel Building System

Background

Today most all traditional structural floor, wall, and roof assembly materials are present in various forms that have been used individually or in combination with each other being categorized into the following basic categories:

1. Concrete

2. Masonry

3. Steel

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Peter Anthony
Clemmons, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 9649
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 15, 2011

A Low-Cost IEC-Fusion Plasma Spacecraft Thruster

An electric-plasma thruster utilizing Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) technology has a potential application as a low-cost, high-efficiency thruster for Earth orbit maneuvering and interplanetary propulsive operations. The basic concept uses ion acceleration along with jet formation of the resulting plasma.

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Matthew Travis
Melbourne, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 8893
Transportation
Jun 30, 2011

A microSNIFFER Monitoring Device

The microSNIFFER is a portable electronic monitoring device for detecting and reporting potentially hazardous materials.

The benefits of the microSNIFFER are as follows:

Local and remote monitoring; small size; long battery life; gas, liquid and solid monitoring functions; low-cost. This design idea will improve quality of life; facilitate tedious tasks; help prevent injury or death;

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Fred Rupinski
Kinnelon, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4710
Safety and Security
Jun 30, 2011

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