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Printing A Road – Faster way to paint signs on roadways
Posted by Daoco in DIY, Gadgets, Great Ideas, Innovation, Technology, Unique Designs, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 22, 2009
Printing A Road
The Road Printer is a device that can be used to print road-signs directly onto the road surface. As opposed to the tedious job of hand-painting the signs, this device looks at making the task easier and precise. A set of templates like Stop, U Turn, Bus, Arrow Signs etc. are pre-programmed into the device and are jet-sprayed to the surface. The menu buttons are large enough to endure a boot or a push from your fingers. A solar panel on the top-end helps in charging the thang.
A paint cartridge swings from side-to-side between the track wheels, spraying the selected icon to the road. The paint reservoir is fitted at the rear and can be easily refilled.
Overall a nice, perceptive design; something my country could very well use. Where I live, we have a lot of red-tape even to get roads painted. First they have a tender floated for getting the job done, and then the contractors take their sweet time, disrupt traffic and still do a shoddy job of the markings. If the Road Printer will do the perfect job with a quick, drying paint…life in traffic will be a tad bit easier!
Designers: Hoyoung Lee, Doyoung Kim & Hongju Kim for Designsory
Popularity: 9% [?]
Airtrax – Omni directional high tech wheels can move sideways and backward at the same time
Posted by Daoco in Gadgets, Great Ideas, Innovation, Inventions, Technology, Unique Designs, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 20, 2009
Airtrax make a range of warehouse vehicles that use a unique, omni-directional wheel. Controlled via a joystick instead of a wheel-and-pedals, the Airtrax system allowing the vehicles to move forwards/backwards, side-to-side or rotate within their own length. Watch Video
Source: Airtrax
Popularity: 23% [?]
Watercone Solar Still – solar seawater desalination good drinking water
Posted by Richer Dao in DIY, Gadgets, Great Ideas, Innovation, Inventions, Technology, The Environment, Unique Designs, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 11, 2009
Solar thermal desalination – front and forward technology to generate drinking water, based exclusively on salt water and solar energy.
Philosophy of the Watercone® concept:
„Many peripheral, de-centralized small units will ensure a better supply of freshwater than one central big generator. If the big one fails, there is no water generation for anyone. If a small one fails, the other ones still keep on working.“
Source: Watercone
Popularity: 24% [?]
The Element Four WaterMill provides fresh potable water from an unlimited source: the Air
Posted by Richer Dao in Gadgets, Great Ideas, Innovation, Inventions, Technology, The Environment, Wow!!! Factor on December 8, 2009
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Element Four products generate and purify water – on and off the grid. Our solutions to the basic human need for fresh, clean water can be applied to domestic, commercial, recreational, agricultural, military and humanitarian purposes. Our technology can be used almost anywhere water is needed.
The facts about Earth’s water
Our planet’s natural water cycle provides for all forms of life. At any given moment our planet holds 326 million cubic miles of water. Of this, 97% is saltwater and only 3% is fresh water. Of that 3%, 99.3% is locked in ice.
Our air contains 4,000 cubic miles of water. If it were a lake it would be roughly the size of the Great Lakes combined – which is the world’s largest body of fresh water – and would be constantly refilled.
What air has to offer
In more than half the countries in the world, some of them the poorest, thirstiest, and most crowded, the air is humid enough to yield huge amounts of precious water. The atmosphere contains 4 to 25 grams of water vapor per cubic meter, while the WaterMill can change 10% to 40% of that to liquid. Water vapor is constantly replenished by Earth’s natural cycle, so extracting water from the air can continue indefinitely without impacting local ecosystems.
Most nations within 30 degrees latitude of the equator actually have more vapor than they need – an average of 15 to 20 grams of water per cubic meter of air.
Residential WaterMill
The original WaterMill is designed for the residential user. It provides families with a clean, sustainable and cost-effective source of water for drinking and cooking. It produces 11 litres of water per day, and mounts to the exterior of your home, drawing water from the air outside into point-of-use systems inside. The WaterMill is self-regulating, maximizing water production, while minimizing energy consumption.
Source: Element Four
Popularity: 14% [?]
3D Sidewalk Chalk Art by Julian Beever
Posted by Jennifer Anderson in Great Ideas, Unique Designs, Wow!!! Factor on December 7, 2009
Anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.
Source: Julian Beever
Popularity: 100% [?]
John Kanzius Inventor – Cancer Killing Machine
Posted by Richer Dao in Inventions, Science, Technology, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 4, 2009
New research reports posted on the American Cancer Society’s Web site suggest that a Florida man with no medical training may have invented a machine that could lead to a cure for cancer.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Stan Meyer Inventor – Water As Fuel – Renewable Energy
Posted by Richer Dao in DIY, Inventions, Science, Technology, The Environment, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 4, 2009
Stan Meyer developed a water “splitter” that separated hydrogen from oxygen, and burned the hydrogen as fuel in an internal combustion engine.
Popularity: 13% [?]
Danny Klein Inventor – allows both car engines and cutting torches to run on a reusable source of water
Posted by Richer Dao in Cars, DIY, Inventions, Science, Technology, The Environment, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 4, 2009
System that allows both car engines and cutting torches to run on a reusable source of water.
Popularity: 55% [?]
John Kanzius Inventor – Water Fuel Cell – Cancer Treatment
Posted by Richer Dao in DIY, Gadgets, Inventions, Science, Technology, The Environment, Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 4, 2009
John Kanzius Water Fuel Cell/Cancer Treatment
John Kanzius, while researching a way to treat cancer & other diseases, stumbled a across the same principal as Stan Meyer’s Water Fuel Cell. Unlike Meyer’s device, which uses submerged stainless steel electrodes in a common feed stock of water, Mr. Kanzius’ device doesn’t make contact with the water — it pulses relatively low energy across an area, such as the human body, which is made of mostly water, or across a test tube of salt water. The salt in the water helps catalyze the process (by increasing the conductivity of the water).
The device can also be looked at as a water capacitor. Water is the feed stock and the pulses (electrical & radio waves) disassociate the hydrogen & oxygen atoms by magnetically stretching apart the atoms through constant magnetic excitation. Parallel plates, or circular or spiral electrodes or transducers all have the ability to tap energy from the quantum flux field. When these devices are used with water such as John Kanzius’ device, the energy from the quantum flux field is tapped into, then trapped by the water, turning it into a charged gas of diatomic & monatomic hydrogen & oxygen atoms, in a mixture of hydrated electrons. When combusted, the plasma implosion/explosion forms back into pure water. The plasma gas is a stoichiometric blend that is perfect for combustion applications.
This device behaves very similarly to Stan Meyer’s Electron Extraction Circuit (which uses lasers), and is the key electronic mechanism which makes his device a true water fuel cell, because the EEC produces an electrical current. The transducers, which face each other, vibrate a high radio frequency (in the ~20KHZ-200KHZ region). The power is low enough not to cause bodily harm, so is perhaps less than 200 watts. Since there is little if any heat build up between the working transducers, the excess energy exhibited with the Brown’s gas can not be traced, thus pointing to the quantum vacuum as the source of free energy.
John Kanzius’ device may be the same explanation for the technology behind the Segway inventor, Dean Kaman’s newest invention, the WATER PURIFIER.
Popularity: 16% [?]
Seriously Insane Juggling Skills
Posted by Daoco in Videos, Wow!!! Factor on December 4, 2009
