2011
Entries

The “Bog Master” snorkel boot was developed to enhance navigation through swampy mud such as encountered in underground and open-pit mines, dairy and hog farms, wetlands, etc., by foiling the grip of boot-sucking sludge. The purpose was to retain the unencumbered qualities of the boot while providing a potentially life-saving advantage of not “bogging down” in the mud through a multiport vacuum-break sole design. A snorkel/pipe maintains an airway (vacuum vent) and conducts the air to the area of greatest-sensed vacuum, namely the ball of the foot and heel. Check valves are an absolute necessity—their location being most advantageous at or near the end where the air meets the mud. If mud is allowed to backflow into the conduit/manifold, ...

This idea make use of the wasted energy when any vehicle driver uses the brakes. It depends mainly on the potential energy of the passengers in the vehicle by transferring this energy to well distributed electrical generators along the the vehicle body. This can be used as a clean power source for the vehicle that reduce the amount of gas needed to operated the vehicle, hence reduce air pollution. Typical scenario as follows:
1- When the driver uses the brakes, the base of the vehicle will move forward and backwards due to springs attached to both ends of the base.
2- When the base moves, it causes the cogs by its ends to turn so the electrical generators operates ...

Shots are the most feared part of medical care. Immunizations may only hurt for a second, but can result in a lifetime of needle phobia for 22% of adults. The costs of 1/5 of the population avoiding medical treatment, refusing blood donation, and neglecting flu shots due to needle pain fear is uncalculated. There are currently no over-the-counter aids for sharp pain, placing patients at the mercy of healthcare providers. Current prescription methods of reducing needle pain cost up to $12 per site and require up to 1 hour to be effective. An inexpensive, fast-acting over the counter product that could effectively reduce pain and anxiety for children and adults could reduce morbidity and mortality worldwide. Buzzy is the ...

Camera In Dashboard with Electronic Response. The name of this is so vague only because of the endless possibilities that are possible. In simple terms, it is just a high-definition infrared camera mounted into the dashboard of your car that can pretty much do anything you program it to do. The Camera itself will not be any larger than an average cell phone camera lens. There are many features it can preform with the right hardware and the right programming. Just to list a few, it can:

~Find out if you are actually wearing your seat-belt and send a warning.

~See if you are talking on your phone and warn you.

~Wake up driver if he is falling asleep.

This system uses the changing water level in Lake Ontario to turn one or two turbines to generate electricity. This system is only viable because the canal is between the lake and a large harbour (over 16 million square meters in surface area). Obviously as the lake level rises and falls so does the level in the harbour. For every inch the lake level rises or falls approx. 430,000 cubic meters of water flows through the canal. By damming the canal when not passing traffic (water vessels which is about 5% of daily time. Obviously as the water passes through the turbines they generate electricity and they do so regardless of which way the water flows. The simple diagram ...

Car Collision Energy Neutralizer

High speed is the biggest factor in deciding the impact extent of a car collision. High speed results in high kinetic energy which in turn results in greater collisions.

The idea here is to have some potential energy stored in the car (always) which will cancel some amount of the kinetic energy at the time of collision.

The car chassis is divided into two portions -
Upper portion - Comprising the seats which can slide over the lower portion.
Lower portion - The main base to which the car wheels and the steering + dashboard are attached (It has more inertia due to engine etc.)

Whenever a collision occurs, it triggers the catapult by releasing ...

In the current scenario the world is plagued by accidents which are primarily due to human errors in judgment and hence thousands of lives are lost. These accidents could be avoided if only there was a mechanism to alert the driver of approaching danger. This can be done by monitoring the distance between nearby cars and alerting the driver whenever the distance becomes too short. This is precisely the aim of this entry. We propose the use of Bluetooth Technology by which we can check the speed of the car whenever it comes dangerously close to any other vehicle up front, thereby saving very many lives.

Since Bluetooth devices are capable of communicating with eight other devices simultaneously we can ...

The sun is the largest fusion reactor we have available to us, and we do not make use of it as we should. But we are not to blame, it is the usage of "conventional" solar panels that cause the lack of notoriety for solar energy in the public. And one that has the potential to alleviate our reliance on fossil fuels in this energy crisis.

Regular solar panels absorb light on a 2 dimensional plane, essentially, they are flat. And with this the surface area of them is minimal compared to the volume of the unit. The more surface area on a solar panel, the more light it can absorb and the more energy it has the potential ...

Carp have escaped from fish farms and threaten fresh water ecologies. The rapidly growing and reproducing fish are pushing out native species in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and are threatening the Great Lakes. Traditional methods have failed to hold the expansion of carp populations.

Fish can be detected using sonar finders but are still harvesting using traditional nets and fishing lines. Carp can escape these snares and quickly repopulate an area.

The proposed design would enable the suppression of carp populations.

Sonic guns, developed as anti-swimmer defenses, could be employed to stun fish. Underwater acoustic systems introduced for diver deterrent generate low frequency sound s that interferes with breathing, induces vestibular disorientation, panic, and uncontrolled ascent to surface. ...