Prepare your family before winter storms

Have a sufficient heating fuel, good, good storage of dry woods for fireplace, wood burning stove, etc.

Prepare your home for winter by extending the life of your fuel supply; insulate the walls, caulking and weather stripping doors and windows, covering the windows and plastics.

Clean the rain gutters.

Repair the roof leaks.

If you have trees and plants cut away their braches that may fall on the house or other structure during the storm.

To avoid freezing during the cold weather insulate the pipes with newspaper, plastic or using insulation.

Keep the fire extinguishers ready and ensure that everyone in the family knows how to use it.

Hire a contractor and check the ability of the roof that it is suitable to withstand the heavy weight that is formed due to the accumulation of snow or water.

Make sure that you are able to shut off the water valves.

Robot that mimic a person

Engineers of Future Robotics Technology Center have released their last invention – the Wireless Intelligent Networked Device (WIND).

This technology is a master slave controller that consists of small system in packages and processors that are connected to 3D position sensors that are installed in the vest that helps to identify the motion of the body.

When the wearer makes a movement in the vest it is transformed into a command to the robot that is conveyed through the Bluetooth. At last this makes the robot to mimic the respective motion.

Touch screen with unlimited Finger Tracking Capability

Most of the touch screen that is in use today is limited to the use of just two fingers. Cypress Semiconductor came up with a good solution to this with the invention of a tablet-sized touch screen device that works with unlimited finger tracking capability.

The device allows the user to manipulate several images at a time. This technology can be used in 7-17” touch screens.

Ritmo Advanced Sound System for Babies in the womb

Nuvo group came up with an advanced sound system for the pregnant women and their future babies. The new sound system was named as Ritmo Advanced sound system.

This invention was done since listening to the music early in the womb itself has shown to have some positive effects on the health of the baby.
The Ritmo advanced sound system can be worm by the pregnant woman to bond with her baby. The system is connected to the mp3 player and it uses the safe and sound technology.

By the 17th week of pregnancy the woman can also feel the movement of the baby to the music she is playing to the baby.

The device looks like a belt outfitted with the speaker and controller. The device is covered with a soft fabric. The device is wrapped around the belly of the expecting mother and the controller is connected to the mp3 player or any other portable music device. The safe and sound technology controls the system so the baby enjoys the music in a safe level.

This innovative system was developed by Oren Oz a father of two children.

Biggest Solar Carport

Alpha Energy the American energy company opened a a one megavolt grid connected power system. The power system was opened in Bordentown in NJ. It is said to be the largest solar carport in United States. The main goals of the power system are to provide electricity to auction facility in Bordentown.

The power system occupies more than 13,000 square meters having 5,880 solar panels which are of 170 watt. The panels are connected through 11 separate inverters. Thus if one of the panel is not working or removed the other can work properly without any interference. Thus the power supply will not be disturbed.

The system has the capacity to produce 1,056,000 kilowatt hours each year. This amount of energy is used to give powers to 114 US homes. With use of this power plant the emission of carbon is reduced to 862 tons. This amount of carbon is emitted by 158 cars by average.

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Top 10 inventions of November 2009

Here is a list of the top 10 invention of November 2009.

1. Green battery – by scientists from Technion-Israel institute of science
2. Space suite that fits everyone – by University of Maryland Scientists
3. Gibson self-tuning electric guitar – by Gibson
4. Brain chip that allows controlling a PC – by Intel
5. Extra thin solar cells – by Sanyo
6. Muscle suit that lifts heavy load - by University of Science Obayashi Laboratory
7. Camera for the blind – by Designer Nadeem Haidary
8. Small robots created to monitor the ocean – by Researchers from the UC San Diego
9. Durable DVD – by CranBery LLC
10. Spray on solar ink – by University of Texas Researchers