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Filed under: Feasible inventions. It seems that the Kremlin is thinking of returning to typewriters instead of computers. In the 1970s, the Soviets developed a special sensor which could interpret the vibrations of windows in US Govt. buildings when typewriters were in use. They could thus read the content of any secret memos in preparation. This should effectively scramble any possible eavesdropping, for both/any sides in a future cold war. Comments Off on #2441: Tapwriter. Filed under: Possible inventi...
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Invention Of The Day » Whimsical inventions
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Filed under: Whimsical inventions. Who would have thought that insects could affect the economics of air travel. I’m still not really convinced by this article. It did, however, inspire today’s invention. Imagine coating a light aircraft in a form of lightweight, spray-on glue. If you then fly through dense clouds of insects, a proportion of them will end up trapped by the adhesive but in an orientation which still allows them to flap their wings. Let’s assume that insects. Comments Off on #2450: BugsLift.
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Invention Of The Day » Possible inventions
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Filed under: Possible inventions. Today’s invention is a name badge or other physical label which can be created, modified or recycled very rapidly. Imagine a mat of stiff, open-weave fabric, about the size of a business card. This can be fed into a small embroidery machine which will loosely sew a user-specified message. An algorithm works out the most legible way to reproduce some text and/or graphical elements, using a single strand of colour-contrasting thread. Comments Off on #2448: ThRead. Streetli...
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Are you THRILLED by your products? How do your customers feel? Staleness, inertia, perfectionism, groupthink -all of these contribute to boring, me-too, uncompetitive offerings. Your own business may well be suffering needlessly from the three major, unacknowledged uncertainties:. Is your product development supported by your customers? Are you really in control of your R D? Perhaps you are unclear about your IP strategy? UK Ministry of Defence. Shell Exploration and Production. US Department of Defense.
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#2442: SeatShares
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I’ve been spending too much time lately, poring over the minutiae provided on seatguru.com. It almost seems as if they will soon be rating each actual seat: “Seat 29B has an unfortunate stain on the armrest and a non-functioning earphone jack”. I guess with mobile communications, that is currently possible. Anyway, today’s invention is a new concept in commercial flight. It’s normally assumed that when you buy a seat, you will stay located there for all of your journey. Comments Off on #2442: SeatShares.
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#2449: Teamagnify
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If you appear in some team photo or other multi-person image, today’s invention allows you to differentiate yourself (and perhaps some friends) from all those other people whose names you may never have known anyway. It consists of a small, self adhesive plastic lens which you can stick to the glass of a photo frame -over your own, minute facial image. This allows you to become much more recognisable and thus prove that you were actually on that 2nd XI team in 1984; right next to old whatshisname.
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#2445: Blackspotlights
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Streetlights seem to be either on, or off (if we forget about any warming up period). It’s usually hard to make a case for lighting some streets more brightly than others. It seems, however, that New York has now made available data which map. Where road accidents occur. Today’s invention is to use this information to vary the light emitted from individual streetlights. Comments Off on #2445: Blackspotlights. Are you THRILLED by your products? Subscribe to email updates. Website Terms and Conditions.
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#2443: Launchlift
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I’m always in search of new flying systems and today’s invention is a way to help aircraft escape the deck of a carrier. These vessels have giant lifts which transport planes to the flightdeck from the bowels of the ship. Imagine if, instead of a sedate journey upwards, the lift was designed to boost a plane (or several planes) vertically above the deck and say 30m into the sky. Comments Off on #2443: Launchlift. Are you THRILLED by your products? Subscribe to email updates. Website Terms and Conditions.