Invisible Umbrella Uses Air To Blow Away Rain Drops

The Air Umbrella has been funded on Kickstarter, which means that we’ll all get the chance to see if this product actually works, barring Kickstarter catastrophe.

One might say the standard umbrella is already perfectly designed — compact, resistant to all but very strong winds, and it generally keeps your top half dry. The kind of storm in which an umbrella wouldn’t do the job is the kind of storm where nothing other than staying inside would help. A new umbrella design by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon aims to not only change the umbrella’s core design, but to make it adjustable given the power of a storm.

Called the Air Umbrella, the concept removes the plastic top from the umbrella and replaces it with a wind shield. The design of the Air Umbrella calls for air to be sucked through the bottom, then shot out of the top in a pattern that mimics the standard canopy. Power and canopy size controls reside toward the bottom of the shaft, providing users with the ability to strengthen the force of the air and widen the canopy in order to adjust for heavier rains. Not only would these features protect against storms when a standard umbrella normally may not, but the air curtain has a better chance to survive strong winds than a flimsy nylon covering. Removing the canopy also dispenses with minutes shaking all of the water off before you bring it inside.

Airbrella shaftIt’s worth noting that if the umbrella is designed to shoot rain away from your head through an air pump, it would almost certainly shoot that rain onto surrounding innocent bystanders.

The Air Umbrella is also designed with a simple adjustable handle, so the user can rest their arm at whatever height they desire when holding the umbrella, an option left out of standard umbrellas.

Though still a concept and assuming the wind curtain is actually strong enough, the design has one pretty significant flaw — battery life. If a storm is particularly strong, the highest power output and widest curtain could conceivably drain the battery quickly, while a longer trek through the rain would significantly drain the battery as well. What happens when you trek through the rain , use a significant portion of the battery, then it’s still raining on the way home? It’ll be annoying to have to carry extra batteries or a charger.

Whatever the case with the power supply may be, the umbrella is still only a concept, so whatever kinks could arise are probably already being addressed. The design does seem like a great alternative to an umbrella where the plastic canopy turns inside out at the first gust of wind, we just wish the designers went with the term “Airbrella.”

 

One of the most unconventional designs to hit the market comes in the form of air, yes an air umbrella offers protection from rain by shooting a steady sheet of air to create an invisible canopy. Designed and engineered by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon, the air umbrella works by sucking air through the bottom intake and blowing it out the upper outlet to form an air curtain. The size of the air umbrella air curtain can be adjusted to accompany multiple users at once. Amazing!

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Invisible Umbrella Uses Air To Blow Away Rain Drops

The Air Umbrella has been funded on Kickstarter, which means that we’ll all get the chance to see if this product actually works, barring Kickstarter catastrophe.

One might say the standard umbrella is already perfectly designed — compact, resistant to all but very strong winds, and it generally keeps your top half dry. The kind of storm in which an umbrella wouldn’t do the job is the kind of storm where nothing other than staying inside would help. A new umbrella design by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon aims to not only change the umbrella’s core design, but to make it adjustable given the power of a storm.

Called the Air Umbrella, the concept removes the plastic top from the umbrella and replaces it with a wind shield. The design of the Air Umbrella calls for air to be sucked through the bottom, then shot out of the top in a pattern that mimics the standard canopy. Power and canopy size controls reside toward the bottom of the shaft, providing users with the ability to strengthen the force of the air and widen the canopy in order to adjust for heavier rains. Not only would these features protect against storms when a standard umbrella normally may not, but the air curtain has a better chance to survive strong winds than a flimsy nylon covering. Removing the canopy also dispenses with minutes shaking all of the water off before you bring it inside.

Airbrella shaftIt’s worth noting that if the umbrella is designed to shoot rain away from your head through an air pump, it would almost certainly shoot that rain onto surrounding innocent bystanders.

The Air Umbrella is also designed with a simple adjustable handle, so the user can rest their arm at whatever height they desire when holding the umbrella, an option left out of standard umbrellas.

Though still a concept and assuming the wind curtain is actually strong enough, the design has one pretty significant flaw — battery life. If a storm is particularly strong, the highest power output and widest curtain could conceivably drain the battery quickly, while a longer trek through the rain would significantly drain the battery as well. What happens when you trek through the rain , use a significant portion of the battery, then it’s still raining on the way home? It’ll be annoying to have to carry extra batteries or a charger.

Whatever the case with the power supply may be, the umbrella is still only a concept, so whatever kinks could arise are probably already being addressed. The design does seem like a great alternative to an umbrella where the plastic canopy turns inside out at the first gust of wind, we just wish the designers went with the term “Airbrella.”

 

One of the most unconventional designs to hit the market comes in the form of air, yes an air umbrella offers protection from rain by shooting a steady sheet of air to create an invisible canopy. Designed and engineered by Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon, the air umbrella works by sucking air through the bottom intake and blowing it out the upper outlet to form an air curtain. The size of the air umbrella air curtain can be adjusted to accompany multiple users at once. Amazing!

What is Robot Farmers?

An agricultural robot or attribute is a robot deployed for agricultural uses. The primary field of application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting point. Fruit picking robots, driverless tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labor. The agricultural industry is behind other complementary industries in using robots because the sort of jobs involved in agriculture are not straightforward, and many repetitive tasks are not exactly the same every time. In most instances, a great deal of elements have to be taken (e.g., the size and color of the fruit to be culled) before the beginning of a project. Golems can be utilized for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring. Robots can also be utilized in livestock applications (livestock robotics) such as automatic milking, washing and castrating.

Examples

•     "Ag Ant", an inexpensive foot-long bot that works cooperatively.
•     The Oracle Robot
•     The Shear Magic Robot
•     Fruit Picking Robot
•     LSU's AgBot
•     Harvest Automation is a company founded by former iRobot employees to develop robots for greenhouses
•     Strawberry picking robot from Robotic Harvesting[8] and Agrobot.
•     Casmobot next generation slope mower
•     Fieldrobot Event is a competition in mobile agricultural robotics
•     HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot,
•     Lettuce Bot - Organic Weed Elimination and Thinning of Lettuce
•     Rice planting robot developed by the Japanese National Agricultural Research Centre

 

Nor is it C-3PO with a hoe. The accuracy may seem more mundane at first, but robotics are already firmly entrenched as part of the modern agriculture industry and it’s just failing to become more ubiquitous in the hereafter.

The term ‘robot’ may conjure up images of humanoid-looking automatons, but not only is modern science nowhere near getting to such devices commercially viable, they’re mostly unneeded. Practical robots still have a lot more in common with a car factory assembly line than they do with The Terminator.

‘The robot’s role is to manage the repetitive tasks, that’s what they’re good at’, said David Gardner, chief administrator of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE).

‘The actual project itself could be quite complicated, like milking a cow, but if it’s only being done repeatedly all the time and it basically sits within one paradigm, there’s the opportunity to utilize a robot to serve it.’

Each state possesses its own peculiar farming issues and in Britain, it’s the robotic milker which has become due regard for many farms, with more mobile machines slower to get on.

‘It’s a very sophisticated robot,’ said Gardner. ‘It actually removes each teat cup one at a time, rather than taking away all four at once – which potentially reduces mastitis. The cups are steamed between each cow, so again there’s an advantage in terms of spreading infection.’

He added: ‘Robots tend to do a safer job than humans. Whilst they can go down, they don’t get bored, they don’t get muddy. They suffice the same task to the same standard every time.

‘The interesting matter about the milking robot is that it has tended to be carried up by family farms where they are expecting to contract away from having to milk cows twice a daytime. They even want to save the oxen but they don’t want to milk them twice a day.’

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Robot Farmers

What is Robot Farmers?

An agricultural robot or attribute is a robot deployed for agricultural uses. The primary field of application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting point. Fruit picking robots, driverless tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labor. The agricultural industry is behind other complementary industries in using robots because the sort of jobs involved in agriculture are not straightforward, and many repetitive tasks are not exactly the same every time. In most instances, a great deal of elements have to be taken (e.g., the size and color of the fruit to be culled) before the beginning of a project. Golems can be utilized for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring. Robots can also be utilized in livestock applications (livestock robotics) such as automatic milking, washing and castrating.

Examples

•     "Ag Ant", an inexpensive foot-long bot that works cooperatively.
•     The Oracle Robot
•     The Shear Magic Robot
•     Fruit Picking Robot
•     LSU's AgBot
•     Harvest Automation is a company founded by former iRobot employees to develop robots for greenhouses
•     Strawberry picking robot from Robotic Harvesting[8] and Agrobot.
•     Casmobot next generation slope mower
•     Fieldrobot Event is a competition in mobile agricultural robotics
•     HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot,
•     Lettuce Bot - Organic Weed Elimination and Thinning of Lettuce
•     Rice planting robot developed by the Japanese National Agricultural Research Centre

 

Nor is it C-3PO with a hoe. The accuracy may seem more mundane at first, but robotics are already firmly entrenched as part of the modern agriculture industry and it’s just failing to become more ubiquitous in the hereafter.

The term ‘robot’ may conjure up images of humanoid-looking automatons, but not only is modern science nowhere near getting to such devices commercially viable, they’re mostly unneeded. Practical robots still have a lot more in common with a car factory assembly line than they do with The Terminator.

‘The robot’s role is to manage the repetitive tasks, that’s what they’re good at’, said David Gardner, chief administrator of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE).

‘The actual project itself could be quite complicated, like milking a cow, but if it’s only being done repeatedly all the time and it basically sits within one paradigm, there’s the opportunity to utilize a robot to serve it.’

Each state possesses its own peculiar farming issues and in Britain, it’s the robotic milker which has become due regard for many farms, with more mobile machines slower to get on.

‘It’s a very sophisticated robot,’ said Gardner. ‘It actually removes each teat cup one at a time, rather than taking away all four at once – which potentially reduces mastitis. The cups are steamed between each cow, so again there’s an advantage in terms of spreading infection.’

He added: ‘Robots tend to do a safer job than humans. Whilst they can go down, they don’t get bored, they don’t get muddy. They suffice the same task to the same standard every time.

‘The interesting matter about the milking robot is that it has tended to be carried up by family farms where they are expecting to contract away from having to milk cows twice a daytime. They even want to save the oxen but they don’t want to milk them twice a day.’

If you believed the concept of medically-injectable microchips were something out of a science fiction novel, guess again. A cohort of scientists from universities the world over has developed a raw case of implantable microchip capable of performing various pre-programmed functions inside the body for a certain point of time, and later breaking up into oblivion.

Published in the journal Science, a new study of the technology explains how "transient electronics" are the exact opposite of traditional electronics, which are designed with stability and long-term durability in mind. Dissolvable electronics, on the other hand, are specifically projected to run off once they have reached their respective tasks, or at least this is what we are being differentiated.

"A noteworthy characteristic of modern silicon electronics is its power to remain physically invariant, almost indefinitely for practical purposes," reads the study abstract. "Although this characteristic is a authentication of applications of integrated circuits that exist today, there might be opportunities for systems that propose the opposite behavior, such as implantable devices that function for medically useful time frames but then completely disappear via re-absorption by the body."

One case of this might be implantable chips designed to target open wounds with high temperature in order to prevent infection, particularly during patients' time at hospitals, says a BBC piece on the topic. Some other use might possibly be triggering an immune reaction that targets a potentially deadly infection, considering as how conventional medicine has mostly rejected the much more effective holistic and nutrition-based approaches to preventing and treating disease.

According to reports, test chips have already been created that are composed of a combination of silicon and magnesium oxide, and coated with a protective layer of silk produced by extracting silk from silkworms, dissolving it, and reforming it into a crystallized coating. Depending on the intended lifetime of a particular chip, the heaviness of the silk might be extremely thin to last for only a few hours, or slightly thicker to last for days or even weeks.

Are dissolvable 'medical' microchips a prelude to implantable tracking devics?

As fascinating as this new research might be to some who believe that such technology will only be used for benign purposes such as in medicine, the momentum of this type of science seems to be moving ever closer towards permanent implantable tracking microchips. Earlier in the year, for instance, researchers in the U.K. were already testing pharmaceutical drugs equipped with "edible microchips" that track whether or not patients are taking their medications.

And last summer, research involving "electronic tattoos," or flexible microchip sensors that can be attached to or embedded under patients' skin, was revealed as a supposed "advanced" approach to future medical treatments. A CBS News report from back in January explains how researchers are already testing these chips in heart and brain patients, as the devices could theoretically help prevent heart attacks or brain seizures, we are told. Where this all seems to be heading, of course, is in uncharted, Big Brother tracking territory, where human beings are literally controlled by microchips connected remotely to a centralized server that instructs them on how to behave inside the body. While stories about the technology may appear relatively good-natured at the present time, there is clearly a push for such microchips to become not only normative in modern social club, but also a permanent aspect of the human torso.

The question remains; however, whether or not the public Will openly embrace such technology, or recognize it as the Big Brother Trojan Horse that it truly is, and thus reject it.

Learn more......

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Scientists develop tiny electronics that dissolve inside your body

If you believed the concept of medically-injectable microchips were something out of a science fiction novel, guess again. A cohort of scientists from universities the world over has developed a raw case of implantable microchip capable of performing various pre-programmed functions inside the body for a certain point of time, and later breaking up into oblivion.

Published in the journal Science, a new study of the technology explains how "transient electronics" are the exact opposite of traditional electronics, which are designed with stability and long-term durability in mind. Dissolvable electronics, on the other hand, are specifically projected to run off once they have reached their respective tasks, or at least this is what we are being differentiated.

"A noteworthy characteristic of modern silicon electronics is its power to remain physically invariant, almost indefinitely for practical purposes," reads the study abstract. "Although this characteristic is a authentication of applications of integrated circuits that exist today, there might be opportunities for systems that propose the opposite behavior, such as implantable devices that function for medically useful time frames but then completely disappear via re-absorption by the body."

One case of this might be implantable chips designed to target open wounds with high temperature in order to prevent infection, particularly during patients' time at hospitals, says a BBC piece on the topic. Some other use might possibly be triggering an immune reaction that targets a potentially deadly infection, considering as how conventional medicine has mostly rejected the much more effective holistic and nutrition-based approaches to preventing and treating disease.

According to reports, test chips have already been created that are composed of a combination of silicon and magnesium oxide, and coated with a protective layer of silk produced by extracting silk from silkworms, dissolving it, and reforming it into a crystallized coating. Depending on the intended lifetime of a particular chip, the heaviness of the silk might be extremely thin to last for only a few hours, or slightly thicker to last for days or even weeks.

Are dissolvable 'medical' microchips a prelude to implantable tracking devics?

As fascinating as this new research might be to some who believe that such technology will only be used for benign purposes such as in medicine, the momentum of this type of science seems to be moving ever closer towards permanent implantable tracking microchips. Earlier in the year, for instance, researchers in the U.K. were already testing pharmaceutical drugs equipped with "edible microchips" that track whether or not patients are taking their medications.

And last summer, research involving "electronic tattoos," or flexible microchip sensors that can be attached to or embedded under patients' skin, was revealed as a supposed "advanced" approach to future medical treatments. A CBS News report from back in January explains how researchers are already testing these chips in heart and brain patients, as the devices could theoretically help prevent heart attacks or brain seizures, we are told. Where this all seems to be heading, of course, is in uncharted, Big Brother tracking territory, where human beings are literally controlled by microchips connected remotely to a centralized server that instructs them on how to behave inside the body. While stories about the technology may appear relatively good-natured at the present time, there is clearly a push for such microchips to become not only normative in modern social club, but also a permanent aspect of the human torso.

The question remains; however, whether or not the public Will openly embrace such technology, or recognize it as the Big Brother Trojan Horse that it truly is, and thus reject it.

Learn more......