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The stark hand

It is an artificial hand which is specially design for NASA. It moves easily and works like an electronic hand. The story behind the invention is like this:

A boy named Dave Vogt, when born has not his left hand by nature. A scientist Stark created an electronic hand for him and the hand has three knuckles (Which have a joint of a finger when the fist is closed). These knuckles can be bent according to the wish of the Vogt and he may catch the things easily. Interesting thing is that the Vogt may open all of his fingers freely by the moment of his shoulder that triggers a lever to extract. This artificial hand is really magical, because the Vogt may grip an egg with politeness and as well as drag a heavy chair.

When Vogt used this hand a ball is thrown towards him, he caught the ball with his artificial hand and certified that he is no more disabled and may do his work like a normal person.

A company named Edison Nation helps the inventors to develop their ideas selected the electronic hand for commercial production.

Dynamic eye sunglasses

Inventor: Chris Mullin

When a doctor Chris Mullin used to go to his laboratory 35 miles away from his house, the sunrays directly hit his eyes. The high penetrating rays cause headaches and give him trouble to see properly. Thus he decided to make a sunglass that may block the sunrays and protect his eyes. In 2002 he got a chance to work over his idea.

As lens material, he used a liquid crystal. The liquid crystal doesn’t give any obstruction to see through as a sunglass lens. Then he added a sensor on the bridge of the nose which finds limelight and gives a signal to a microcontroller attached nearby. The microcontroller reacts and gives instruction to the liquid-crystal lens to produce a 6 mm black square in front of the eyes to block the limelight. Surprisingly the square moves with the glass wearer to block the source of limelight at all the angles, but still gives a gap on the surroundings to let see properly.

Mullin is now developing an elastically plastic-based LCD, so that the product may be lighter and damage proof to sale in market on commercial scale.

The U.S Air Force has appreciated Mullin work and has funded in his project. Now he is working on developing a sunglass for soldiers & fighter pilots. Mullin claims that troops may go in high-noon sun onto the other place without any harm in illumination. The sight of the sunglass wearer will not be damaged. They may be able to see at the very moment after walking into sun. The scientist doctor making a plan to sell the idea to any of the big manufacturer of sunglass, so that they produce this Dynamic Eye shades commercially.

۩ Energy saving car head lights

Are you intended to save the energy of your car headlight, then wait for a little time? The big car company BMM is going to introduce laser headlights very soon. The company claims that these headlights will save energy in comparison to the normal headlights. To overcome the bad affects of the laser, which may be harmful for the passenger coming from the opposite sides, the lights produced by laser will be softened. The company is trying to pass the white light through fluorescent phosphor material in the headlight. The light which will come out from headlight will be bright and cool, giving no hazardous effect to the eyes of animals and human being coming in the range of this laser light. It will produce a huge intensity than LEO lights and safe a lot of energy. 

۩ Communicating cars

A large number of accidents occur when there is weak visibility and foggy situation takes place in the bad weather. The scientists of Bologna University, it a ly produced a modern device which will solve this problem and will save human life from collisions. This device will offer a communication to the approaching cars and deliver warning when ever any accident will take place. The warning system will be attached with an active sensor on dashboard; it will detect the accident when it takes place. Toyota is installing this system on the roads in Los Angeles. Surely this wireless device will save the human lives. The system will warm others about road blocks and slippery conditions.

۩ Magical camera

A camera with magical fiction is going to be launched in the last of this year by a company “Lytro” based in California. Often we faced a confusion when we photograph then came to know that the focus was not then came to know that the focus was not appropriate. We think the result of the snap will not be satisfied in camera technology has been made and you will never face this problem again. Now you may adjust the focus after taking the snap. Only you have to readjust the focus in the photo on the foreground, or background objects. You may adjust it in this way that all the objects come in a nice focus.

Ordinary cameras accumulates all the light rays to one point, but the new camera records the color, the power and its imaginary line position of the light position of the light rays differently, hence permitted the data to be done nicely by the software which mounted with strength in the camera.

۩ Fuel cell

In Georgian tech in USA scientist are trying to develop a new type of fuel cell which functions on coal gas. From coal gas is made and then the coal gas is used in the fuel cells. Scientists are claiming that by these fuel cells they may produce electricity with less expenditure. This electricity will be more efficient. The procedure of operating this fuel cell in like this the cell convert chemical energy into electrical energy which can be further used for different purposes. There are different kinds of fuel cells, for example hydrogen cells that produce electricity by oxidizing hydrogen with oxygen to make water from this process electrical energy generates. The electrical energy generated by these cells will be cheaper in comparison to the energy generated by turbines and thermal processes.

Portable watercraft

You will be able to know that a newly watercraft is introduced, which is portable and is running nowadays across the rivers & lakes having a speed of 25 mph and weighs 600 pounds.

When a boy Jason Woods was 19 years old living on his own, decided to buy an old ski boat. In his boat he drives the girls across the lake, near to his home in California. After few months he estimated that to drive a 16 foot boat is an expensive job. He was thinking about a boat that may carry in his car, but that dream didn’t come true. He was getting education at Napa’s New Technology High School and has a deep relationship with science and technology. In the meanwhile he get an idea that the carbon-fiber body board with a small engine power will have a tremendous speed. Its weight will be of 35 pounds only, so the persons who like adventure could carry it easily to the riverside.

It was Wood’s problem to find light weight parts. He search on different websites and discovered Germans are building 8 foot long & 20 hp mini yachts in these days. He also found that some companies are producing components for them. He purchased a small jet pump from a company in $500.
When he got the components he mounted the jet pump, and duct-taped the housing together. It took a jerk gave ugly voices, but it moved, and in this way Woods was able to build a new edition every year. His 4th edition put out 5 hp and run up to 15 mph. It also integrated with carbon fiber and handlebars.

Now the next model is under construction. A hybrid electric-propane four-stroke engine will be used in it and the boat will get the speed up to 25 mph. Woods estimated that on mass production basis the latest edition may be selling at $1,000.

Portable watercraft is a two-stroke gas engine drives a lightweight, high-powered jet pump, which throw out and creates a push, which deviate a little amount of water to cool down the engine.

The Body guard

The body guard is nothing but a crime-fighting armored glove invented by a cameraman, David Brown. It consists of a video camera & a stun gun to keep the outlaws away. Surely it can be said that Body Guard promise to save you life in odd situations. It runs on the high voltage stunner, a video camera, a laser pointer & flashlight. When you face any violation it protects you.

Brown think over it if a lion or any beast attacks on you suddenly, you have nothing to do. There should be a weapon which should work as your body guard. He wants to invent something.

As he worked over his idea, he came to know that his real market will be police force & military departments. He made a perfect glove in 48 hours from a medical arm pair, a stun gun and a fire-alarm button. After 7 years Brown became successful to complete his project. It looks and sounds horrible when electric current runs between its electrodes, which push back an attacker. As a last, it may be used to protect you.

This glove weighs only three pounds and is kept in a hard shell that extends across the forearm. A pull pin prepared the stunner and a button at the palm which activates it. Same buttons put in motion the laser pointer, video camera and flashlight. The Body Guard will be demonstrated at the U.S. Department of Justice’s very soon.

In this competitive and modern world, Apple Company is very popular and renowned for introducing and launching different models of iphones and iPods. Apple Company launched many models of iphone such as iphone 3, iphone 4. Now, Apple Company is planning to introduce new version and model of iphone i-e iphone5. In this article we will discuss important features of iphone 5 for their users. The important features are as follows:

1. clear screen:

An important feature of iphone 5 is that it has new and clear retina screen. This new retina screen has several characteristics such as most vibrant, sharpest and highest resolution as compared to other several of iphone. Iphone 5 has a resolution of almost 650x 960.

2. gyroscopic sensor:

In this fast pace of world, mobile phones become more advanced and intelligence. Iphone 5 offers gyroscopic sensor for the users. Moreover, it also offers three axes of accelerometer sensors and one sensor of proximity.

3. thickness:

Another important feature of iphone 5 is thickness. Iphone 5 is considered to be the thinnest mobile phone all over the world. The thickness of iphone 5 is 9.3 mm which is 25% thinner as compared to previous versions of iphone. Moreover, the outlook appearance or design of iphone is very attractive and eye-catching and when person handle it with the hand, then he/she will be happy and amazed.

4. camera LED flash:

Iphone 5 has a camera along with LED flash. In this way, person can capture different photos and videos even at night and low light ambient.

5. better and best camera:

Another important feature of iphone 5 is that it offers best camera to the users. Iphone 5 has improved qualities and features of camera as compared to other models. The camera of iphone 5 has 5 megapixels.

6. video conference:

Apart from 5 megapixel camera, iphone 5 also offers front camera that is considered to be the most incredible and awaiting feature of iphone 5. This marvellous camera is used for video conferences and self portraits. As every person knows that self portraits different videos and pictures are very popular especially among teenagers.

7. multitasking and different folders:

Furthermore, iphone 5 offers multitasking and different folders to the users. Users can use different applications and switch them without getting slowing down the actual performance of iphone. Additionally, it also offers folders. Folders are considered to be the best way in order to recognize various apps and it also helps the users to make more rooms or folders for different apps. In this way, iphone 5 looks more systematic and organized by dividing or categorized them.

8. stainless steel antenna:

Iphone 5 also offers stainless steel antenna. This is considered to be a cool and best engineering design and iphone 5 looks more stylish and elegant.

9. internal component:

The speed of iphone 5 is quicker and faster as compared to other models. Moreover, iphone 5 also includes microphone for the purpose of noise cancellation.

10. battery life:

Last important feature that is very important is battery life. The battery of iphone 5 will provide 9 hours of video, 7 hours or web browsing and thirteen hours of 2G talk time and 30 hours of music.

Magical print brush

It is not surprising that we have entered in a magical era. Everyday a new invention is coming in market and the making the life of human being easy & comfort. For example, a miniature inkjet can print on a uniform surface with a slight movement of hand. Can you imagine that when anyone moves his hand over the paper, this magical device print a page within 10 seconds.

The engineer of Stockholm, Sweden Alex Breton has designed this magical print brush. This brush is a gadget which can be held by hand and weigh only 8.8-ounce. Inkjets are use in it. Its optics is like a computer mouse and has navigation software for printing. It prints uploaded images and reading material on an even surface like plastic, fabric, paper and wood like a computer than a printer.

When the user move the print brush on a sheet of paper, the optical sensors take the route line velocity and way of the printer related to the page. There is a controller in it which equalizes the location align to a pixel map of the document and throws algorithms to anticipate which pixel to print next.

The designer developed this device in two years, but it took near about 10 years to get the fine result. He and his team experts refined the navigation system on every new edition. Interesting thing is that they added color which needed writing a set of algorithms to develop rapidly the ink combinations required to produce16 million various shades. Print brush with a built-in camera for taking moment’s photo print will come in the market by the next year. Certainly it will be the world’s smallest printer.

Medical mirror

It astonishes that when the heart beats, our face reflects off the light which changes after every moment. The change in moments is captured by a webcam in a monitor placed behind a two way mirror. A computer converts the light data into a heart rate reading.

Actually the heart beats without any pause and delivers a pulse of blood from the blood vessels. Blood absorbs light, but when more of it runs in the vessels, less of the light striking your skin comes back. Astonishingly a webcam pick up these minor fluctuations in the light rays which are coming back, whereas a computer program converts the data into a heart-rate reading. The system may be used to assess other vitals also, as blood-oxygen saturation and respiratory rate   which should broaden its appeal. This indicates the patient’s inner health.

Its inventor Poh is making a plan to introduce the mirror in market, at the end of his academic education. He claims that when people will use it they may say that it identifies my creation.