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Waste Collecting Drone

Wasteshark is a drone by RanMarine which is designed for collecting floating debris in water. It swims through the water to get everything from the micro-plastic and various plastics along with other unwanted material. It has been designed for working in the water in high traffic areas which could also handle navigation in tight and confined areas.

It could lead to smart city of tomorrow which would be compact, graceful, noiseless, modest, and lightweight and can produce zero carbon emissions. It is a kind of learning machines which can gather the data and share the information with our smart city.

It is mainly designed for the purpose of round the clock waste collection which also able to scan and monitor the environment. It can send the data back to central command. The main purpose of it is to get 16 hours a day waste collection along with data collection and transmission.

It is able to clean every possible type of waste which included micro plastics, alien vegetation and also floating debris. It can cover trafficked water, confined spaces as well as tight angles by steering control through remote or plotted. It weights 39 kg and dimension 1556 mm long x 1078 mm wide x 450 m deep. It has the capacity to carry 200 liters.

The wasteshark is designed in order to swim through water and eat its prey with minimum effort and maximum efficiency.

July 20, 2018 0 comment

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Emergency Lifting Cushion

written by Engg. Book

Now there are ELK emergency lifting cushions which are providing safe and dignified lift in order to reduce the risk of injury to carers. It is the perfect solution for helping those individuals who have fallen whether starting from the sitting or lying position.

It is available in 56 * 57 * 51 m and can be inflated in just few seconds. Its weight capacity is 445 kg along with a reasonable price of 1600 USD. It can be efficiently used in both homes and assisted living facilities.

It is being used by many ambulance services, hospitals, telecare response teams and care homes across the world. Through this system, the fallen person can be quickly and safely lifted from the floor and reduces the risk of injury to both the carer and individual.

It is ideal for anyone who has fallen in a confined space as the person can be shuffled onto the cushion or rolled on from the recovery position and then assisted to sit upright. Through touching a button, it can be inflated and allows the person to settle in a raised seated position ready to stand within minutes.

This technology is useful for those people who are suffering with neurological disorders and many physical disabilities such as limited mobility or amputees. The plus size or bariatric persons are also getting benefits from this technology as they face mobility changes and often find difficulties in getting back on their feet when they fall.

The ELK is particularly compact and lightweight and available in size that fits all and most fragile persons up to plus size individuals. Due to its unique design, it can be used inside or outside.

July 6, 2018 0 comment

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The strongest foam in the world

written by Engg. Book

As we race into the future of space travel, electric cars, and high impact sports, some of our biggest challenges are not actually how we design our future modes of transportation but what we actually build them with. It’s a brave new world, and with a new world, we need new materials. Unlike its soft padded equivalent, the syntactic foam may be the material key to protecting ourselves in the future.

Foam is practically defined a mass of bubbles that are held together by some materials. There are certain advantages of making super strong foam. It is very lightweight and can hold a significant amount of load at a time. It also has an advantageous weight to loading ratio.

The materials used in the foams are intended for use in transportation application that can reduce weight and increase the safety of the passengers. It is considered as the strongest foam in the world and is known as syntactic foam. For getting the porosity, the tiny materials were filled with the particles. It will come out as a porous material just like the kitchen sponge.

It does not have any strength and can absorb lots of water. It also looks like the surface of the moon to give an analogy to the viewers. In cars, one of the reasons you want to use foams is in the case of accidents. They absorb a lot of energy and save the passengers inside. But when you reduce the weight, you increase the fuel efficiency on top of every other technology. This is the greatest advantage of the lightweight material.

April 4, 2018 0 comment