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NEED FOR INVENTION:
Since bicycles have existed for so long, we take for granted their construction and usefulness. We normally use the bike for transport, leisure & as an exercising equipment. Under careful consideration,we can find enormous potential for many other uses.The drawbacks of existing construction are:
Only our legs get enough exercise due to cycling.
Rain Guides
Idea/invention for moving water through the landscape which celebrates the amenity of water rather than burying it. It is ideal for use with rain barrels and rain gardens. The use of this invention promotes conservation of natural resources by slowing the flow of stormwater,
Good roof and good heating/cooling system is inevitable for every house. Heating and cooling consumes lot of energy. Cost of energy is permanently increasing and fuel resources are limited so solar energy has to be used more extensively. Properly designed roof system can protect house against bad weather and harvest energy of environment for heating.
Solar Power Collector, Above or Below the Solar Elliptic Plane
NASA & the Department of Energy need to work together to develop space based Solar Power Collectors [SPC] that are off the planetary solar elliptic. This is energy that has never been available to the Earth. Power/Energy is the real currency of the world, Dollars should become Sollars;
Normally, digital cameras will have one removable Memory Card. After you have taken a picture, it is normally stored in this Memory Card. If you want to share any picture while on a vacation with co-vacationers, you need to go to a computer to copy the picture.
Now a day, the automobile is very common to everybody. But everybody is facing the problem of breakage of clutch and/or brake wire in between his or her journey. At that time, he or she may be in trouble to reach to his destination because of breakage of clutch and/or brake wire.
In todays scenario, manufacturing systems must compete in increasingly diverse and demanding markets which is price and quality sensitive. Customers demand quick response to their needs, and products have shorter life cycles than ever before.
BACKGROUND:
Security is the utmost concern for all the personal computer users, Government agencies, private companies, educational institutions as well as other R&D divisions. In fact the cyber crime and cyber security became the two kinds of science under the bigger umbrella of Information Technology.
We need the right filter in every sphere of life, have a dream for a universal filter which is user & environmently friendly, applicable everywhere changing minimum parts or consumables to reduced inventory, variable of filtration, finer to faster, helps worker to put valuable time and attention to productivity, hygienic system ensures health of valuable workforce,
In the pedaling system of the conventional type, the human foot effort is applied on the sprocket shaft. In the invented pedaling system, the human foot effort is applied adjacent to the teeth of the sprocket.
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