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The Explorer (Backpack Gyrocopter)

Overview: The Explorer is a backpack gyrocopter and the gateway to safe reliable personal and utility flight. Most commuters going anywhere typically drive alone. This is taking a toll on our environment, road systems, and current economics. If those that were able to would fly to their destinations it would not only reduce emissions,

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Bradley Lewis
Laverkin, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 18806
Transportation
Jun 13, 2011

The F.I.N.G.E.R.

As recent events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Japan have shown us, being able to communicate with the outside world is incredibly vital. the Flexible INternet Globally Enabled Router (or F.I.N.G.E.R.) seeks to address this by providing a compact unit designed to connect to the internet using any means currently available. It contains a variety of antennas,

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Brian Drake
Gallatin, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4547
Electronics
Mar 29, 2011

The Fire Ball

We all use a lot of energy. So why don’t we generate it where we consume it, in our cities and in our buildings?

This simple efficient optical tracker offers three major advantages when compared with conventional systems: a higher absorption of solar flux,

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Andre Broessel
Barcelona, Spain
Votes: 3
Views: 4083
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 29, 2011

The Future of Transportation: Dirigibles

The visual impact of one of today's small advertising blimps is awesome. The grandeur of a dirigible of yesteryear is legendary. But even more impressive is the raw lifting power of a gigantic lighter-than-air craft

The lifting power of a dirigible increases as the cube of its size.

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Fm Maish
Boulder, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 26076
Transportation
Jun 26, 2011

The Great Big Gun

The "Great Big Gun" is a heavy lift orbital launch system designed to "shoot" large payloads to LEO. This is the "railroad" to space designed to provide low cost delivery of materials and equipment into orbit.

Consisting of a gigantic floating catamaran supporting a 50 foot diameter cast concrete electrical mortar,

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George Onik
Maimi Beach, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 4190
Transportation
Jun 30, 2011

The Kaplan “OWL” (Omni-Directional Wide-Angle Lens) Rotating “Holodeck” Camera

This revolutionary, continuously spinning, 360 degree panoramic, holographic, remotely controlled zoom camera achieves its real time 360 degree omni-directional panoramic stereo color (or stereo color-infrared ) real time images via the use of a set of precisely-aligned “Synchronously-Rotating Linear Triplex Lenses” (Patents Pending) and a matched and aligned set of linear CCD sensors.

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Harvey Kaplan
Chicago, United States
Votes: 5
Views: 8524
Safety and Security
Jul 1, 2011

The Power of the Earth

Energy is the power of mankind. By creating surplus power from fossil fuels mankind was able to leap forward from the Dark Ages. Food, housing, jobs, abundance comes as a measure of available sources of energy. Not everyone everywhere has the same advantages, yet, it is all a matter of how much energy is available to them.

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Fm Maish
Boulder, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 3999
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 22, 2011

The Pungo Wine Preservation Device

It's probably safe to say that almost everyone who's ever bought a bottle of wine and failed to finish it upon opening has experienced its rapid degradation while trying to save it for another day.

The Pungo is a preservation and dispensing device that keeps wine from becoming tainted due to exposure to oxygen.

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Burt Miller
Springfield, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 6473
Consumer Products
Jun 30, 2011

The Quiet Pillow

Seventy-four million Americans snore every night and 28 million Americans are disturbed by snorers and suffer daytime fatigue. Sixty to seventy percent of shift workers have difficulty sleeping during the day and are often interrupted by noise, light, telephones, family members and other distractions.

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Michael Kirby
Naples, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 14169
Electronics
Jun 20, 2011

The Scout

The SCOUT (friendly fire notification device)

Safety and Security Device

Concept and design by Warren W. Crowell

This invention/design idea solves several problems where notification, location and identification is pertinent and crucial.

POTENTIAL BENEFITS:

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Warren Crowell
Madison, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 3746
Safety and Security
Jun 23, 2011

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