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Fiber optics multiple illumination
Did it ever bother you as a technician, engineer or nontechnical person to have to rip off a whole cockpit just to change a light bulb, whether it be in your car or on an aircraft or a ship and not just the cockpit?
This invention is applicable to automotive vehicles & railway wagons & bogies. The invention was initiated with the intention to substantiate the braking efficiency of an automotive vehicle or a railway wagon/bogie.
With the advancements in mobile technology and broadband communications, smart phones plays a momentous role in facilitating access to some diagnostic services to people living in the most remote areas. Due to the scarcity of clinical workstations in malaria endemic countries such as India and Sub-Saharan Africa,
The fruit and vegetables are our main source of sustenance. Not all the contents of these
starches are necessary. Like people with kidney problems must not take sodium, potassium, calcium, etc. but only few foods supports them. So,
With growing population and number of houses it is very difficult to measure and record power consumption in urban areas. Skyscrapers make it still difficult for manual meter reading as it is time consuming and prone to human errors.
Agira’s micro-optics technology traps and accumulates sunlight incident from multiple angles of the sun inside a static glass panel. This product delivers high intensity light to the edge of the glass panel where solar cells can be attached to produce power.
This is a helping tool for the blind. In this technology a blind person will wear the technology around his neck. This would basically be a combination of cameras and optical range finders to detect and map the surroundings of the person as he walks around a new location.
Summary of the project:
This project is initiated to facilitate the physically challenged persons by both hands and legs. They can ride this vehicle and earn money which will be helpful for their survival.
With conventional fossil fuel consuming rides posing a threat to the existence of life on Earth, it is high time to develop alternate and greener modes of transportation for a sustainable future. The Effi-cycle was designed to be an electrically assisted,
Children instinctively prefer to move somewhere embracing and riding on something. Electric toy cars for children are recently prevalent, but vehicle technology for children has not been introduced yet. Since the structures of conventional automobiles are directly reflected even in toy cars,
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