Longreach Buoyancy Deployment System

Rescue bazooka
An Australian entry in the international 2010 James Dyson Award, 'LONGREACH Buoyancy Deployment System' is a concept from university student Samuel Adeloju which provides a man-portable system for rapid conveyance of temporary, water-activated buoyancy devices to a drowning victims location. Constructed from hydrophobic or rapidly expanding foam, it is designed to allow a victim to remain buoyant while rescue personnel prepare the appropriate response to the situation.





For more information on this concept and other inspiring innovations in the James Dyson Award, please visit www.jamesdysonaward.com

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Using Sound to Influence the Brain

A doctor named Hideto Tomabechi uses subliminal sounds to create ringtones that promises to control the brain. For example, if you listen to a certain ringtone of his, it can increase your breast size (if you're a woman). If you listen to another ringtone of his, then it will encourage hair grow

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Levercycle: Radical 'Standing' Bike

Levercycle: Stepper on wheels. This is a radical new type of bicycle that could render all conventional bicycles obsolete.

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Bicycle with out pedals great invention

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Technology for superhuman vision

Researchers Develop Bionic Contact Lens

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

University of Washington researchers have been developing an electronic contact lens that could someday display important information in your field of vision. Early prototypes have been tested on rabbits for short stints without any adverse effects and the researchers say lenses that can display a few pixels worth of information will be available soon.

The research is being funded by the National Science Foundation and scientists recently presented their findings at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ conference. Using super-thin plastics and electronics just a few nanometers thick, they managed to fashion some circuits and red light emitting diodes into a lens. These lenses were then placed onto the eyes of rabbits for up to 20 minutes.

A working bionic lens could be a boon to tech workers who need quick access to important information. Of course you can bet the military would be very interested in this technology for their soldiers.

For now the LEDs on the contacts don’t light up, but the researchers say one that can show a few pixels of light will be available “fairly quickly” according to the source article from the University of Washington news service. Full display contacts will still take “a while”.

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You can communicate with dog soon - Dog Bark to Speech Translator

Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said.

Molnar and his colleagues at Budapest's ELTE University have tested software which distinguishes the emotional reaction of 14 dogs of the Hungarian Mudi herding breed to six situations: When the dog is alone, when it sees a ball, it fights, it plays, it encounters a stranger or it goes for a walk.

"A possible commercial application could be a device for dog-human communication," the scientist told. The computer correctly recognized the emotional reaction of the dogs based on their barks and yelps in 43 percent of the cases.

People had judged correctly in 40 percent of cases. Scientists said the software could be improved. Molnar said the Hungarian scientists' research provided further proof that different types of dog barks convey messages humans can understand even if they had no experience with dogs.

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