Walking Ladder - Very useful for continuous works

Hidden Stair case for a compact house

Cost-effective method for creating hydrogen fuel from water

The team demonstrated that using nanocatalysts composed of nickel and iron increases the efficiency of water electrolysis, the process of breaking water atoms apart to produce hydrogen and oxygen and combining them with electrons to create hydrogen gas

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Waste Collecting machine from rivers, lakes

Flying Trains - Can it be the next generation transportation

Fluoride-ion batteries may last for weeks

Smartphones and laptops of the future may not need to be charged for weeks, thanks to fluoride-based batteries which can last up to eight times longer than those in use today. 

Researchers, including those from California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), found a new way of making rechargeable batteries based on fluoride, the negatively charged form of fluorine.

A study, appearing in ‘Science’, looked into alternative batteries that go beyond the current lithium-ion versions popular today.

“Fluoride batteries can have a higher energy density, which means that they may last longer — up to eight times longer than batteries in use today,” said Robert Grubbs, a professor at Caltech. “But fluoride can be challenging to work with, in particular because it’s so corrosive and reactive,” Grubbs said.

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Ideas for Mechanical Projects

 Following are some of the mechanical project ideas covering automation, mechanization, multi-functional machines, more flexibility to operate etc

1. 360° flexible drilling machine
2. Multipurpose mechanical machine
3. Motorised vegetable cutting machine
4. Mosquito coil making machine
5. Mini windmill power generation project
6. Pneumatic operated cutting
7. Automatic wall painting machine
8. Pedal operated hacksaw
9. Pedal operated washing machine
10. Bicycle operated water pump
11. Smart solar grass cutter
12. Solar operated air cooler
13. Footstep power generation
14. Sunflower thresher
15. Sugarcane cutter machine
16. 180° movable hydraulic crane
17. Hydraulic operated bending machine
18. Three axis trolley
19. Multi nut opener
20. Quick lifting jack
21. Hydraulic crane
22. Chain less bicycle
23. Rotary parking
24. Automatically car parking system
25. Wheat harvesting machine
26. Rice harvesting machine
27. Ginger harvesting machine
28. Vertical wind power plant
29. Pedal operated washing machine
30. Wind operated vertical pump
31. Two axis spray painting
32. One axis spray painting
33. Grass cutting machine
34. Boot polishing machine
35. Smart wheel chair
36. Electric Gocart
37. Hydraulic sheet cutting
38. Belt Conveyor
39. Fire fighting robot
40. Plastic disposal machine
41. 4 way hacksaw
42. Manual operated drilling machine
43. Seed soying machine
44. Hydroelectric powerplant
45. Magnetic breaking system
46. Pneumatic car
47. Variable gear ratio steering
48. Rack anf pinion sterring system
49. 360° steering system
50. Air pollution purification machine
51. Solenoid car
52. Gravity power generation
53. Advance speed breaker system
54. Motarised multipurpose carpentry machine
55. Gear less transmission
56. Pneumatic cup making machine
57. Pneumatic gripper holder
58. Sorting machine (defect part)
59. Pedal operated mixture
60. Peltiar refrigerator system

Innovations for the day-to-day applications

An Easy-to-Load Toilet Paper Holder

A Scent-Based Alarm Clock

A Sofa That Turns Into Bunk Beds

A Pillow With a Hole For Your Glasses

A Knife That Warms Butter As It Spreads

A Mug with a Customizable Temperature

Containers That Remind You When Food Is about to Expire

A Strainer That Attaches to the Pot

A Piggy Bank That Tracks Your Money

Voice-Activated Lights

A Backpack with a USB Charger

A Foldable Cutting Board

A Spike That Automatically Waters Your Plants

A Chip Bag Resealer

An Instant Voice Translator

A Time-Locking Container

Waterproof Socks

A Super Portable Water Bottle

Audi-Airbus flying taxi gets approval from German government

Audi and Airbus’s flying taxi concept looks ready to take off in Ingolstadt, Germany, following the signing of a letter of intent by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The concept, which was shown at the Geneva motor show, features a passenger pod that can be attached either to an electric car base or quadcopter top. The autonomous vehicle can either drive itself on the road or fly itself.

Merkel’s backing will allow the project to move onto testing on the road and the sky – something that she said would help provide a solution to Germany’s growing urban traffic problem, as well as offer a boost to the technology industry.

“Flying taxis aren’t a vision any longer, they can take us off into a new dimension of mobility,” German transport minister Andreas Scheuer told Bloomberg. “They’re a huge opportunity for companies and young start-ups that already develop this technology very concretely and successfully.”

Flying taxis have become increasingly popular with tech companies because of their ability to transport passengers door to door without the need for a runway.

Uber is developing its own flying taxi with the intention of launching it in 2020. Lilium, a German start-up, is also creating its own, with hopes that it will take to the skies from 2025.

Source: MSN

Artificial Clouds Producing machine

Quick Glance on the latest trend, innovation and technology

Next Generation Traffic Signals

An umbrella that protects your Car - A new design of car cover

New Automobile for congested roads (Wow.. can have a ride)

What happens when everybody starts using this -> No need of traffic signals may be, Roads will be clear

3D-printed smart gel can move objects underwater

Scientists have created a 3D-printed smart gel that can walk underwater, grabs objects and move them, an advance that may lead to soft robots which mimic sea animals like the octopus.

It may also lead to artificial heart, stomach and other muscles, along with devices for diagnosing diseases, detecting and delivering drugs and performing underwater inspections.

Soft materials like the smart gel are flexible, often cheaper to manufacture than hard materials and can be miniaturised. Devices made of soft materials typically are simple to design and control compared with mechanically more complex hard devices.

"Our 3D-printed smart gel has great potential in biomedical engineering because it resembles tissues in the human body that also contain lots of water and are very soft," said Howon Lee, an assistant professor at Rutgers University in the US.

"It can be used for many different types of underwater devices that mimic aquatic life like the octopus," said Lee.

The study, published in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, focuses on a 3D-printed hydrogel that moves and changes shape when activated by electricity.

Hydrogels, which stay solid despite their 70-plus per cent water content, are found in the human body, diapers, contact lenses, Jell-O and many other things.

During the 3D-printing process, light is projected on a light-sensitive solution that becomes a gel.

The hydrogel is placed in a salty water solution (or electrolyte) and two thin wires apply electricity to trigger motion: walking forward, reversing course and grabbing and moving objects, said Lee. 

The human-like walker that the team created is about one inch tall.

The speed of the smart gel's movement is controlled by changing its dimensions (thin is faster than thick), and the gel bends or changes shape depending on the strength of the salty water solution and electric field.

The gel resembles muscles that contract because it's made of soft material, has more than 70 per cent water and responds to electrical stimulation, Lee said.

"This study demonstrates how our 3D-printing technique can expand the design, size and versatility of this smart gel. Our microscale 3D-printing technique allowed us to create unprecedented motions," he said.

Xeros Washing Machine (The 'waterless' washing machine)

New machine by Xeros cleans clothes with beads and a tiny amount of water.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have invented a washing machine that uses almost no water. The clothes come out clean and almost dry, which reduces the need for a dryer. Xeros washing machines use just one cup of water per wash cycle and uses tiny beads in the cleaning process. Xeros Ltd says that converting to a virtually waterless machine will save 90 percent of the fresh water used currently with conventional machines. In the U.S., this means saving 1.2 billion tons of water each year.

When you factor in the decreased amount of time needed to dry your clothes, Xeros washing machines also reduce your carbon footprint by up to 40 percent because you use less electricity and laundry detergent than you would with conventional washing machines.

Xeros Ltd says that if all U.S. homes used the Xeros washing machines, the reduction in America’s carbon footprint would equal taking 5 million cars off the road.

"Dry" cleaning is set to become a domestic activity with a washing machine that uses 90% less water than a normal laundry cycle and could be available by the end of 2011. The device, developed by Leeds-based Xeros Ltd, replaces water with tiny plastic beads that suck up stains and its producers claim it will shift stubborn pounds from household energy bills as well.

The Xeros process uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all the crevices and folds of clothing and can also be re-used hundreds of times. The beads flood the machine's drum once the clothes are wet and the humidity is at the right level. After the washing cycle is complete, the beads drain away in the same way as water in a conventional machine.

The chief executive of Xeros, Bill Westwater, said: "The net saving in water, detergent and electricity and including the cost of the beads, we calculate, is about a 30% cost saving for the user." He claims the machine has been tested successfully on a range of fabrics stained with everything from mud, red wine and curry stains to ink from ballpoint pens.

According to the Energy Saving Trust, just under one-third of household energy is used to heat water. Laundry washing also accounts for 15% of all household water consumption; meaning if everyone in the UK converted from normal washing to the Xeros system, the carbon emissions saved would be the equivalent of taking 1.4 m cars off the roads. Another perk of the device is that it should allow many delicates to be "dry" cleaned at home.