Thursday, 22 December 2016

Celebrities as well as Inventors !

Many of the Celebrities have invented the things in  the field which they are expert .
Here are the name of some of the celebrities who have invented the things which are useful for their field and to the world related to that field also

1. Michael Jackson :


Michael Jackson performing with his brothers during the Victory reunion tour, Los Angeles, 1984.
Doug Pizac/AP

In the video for his 1987 song "Smooth Criminal," Michael Jackson leans forward at an impossible gravity-defying angle. This was done with cables hooked up to a harness Jackson wore around his waist. However, he couldn’t do this onstage, since it would require stagehands to hook and unhook him. Jackson invented a system whereby a hitch could come up through the stage floor that he would then catch with a slot in the heel of his shoe. Jackson patented this method with Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins in 1993.

2. Florence Lawrence :


Florence Lawrence was the first movie star. She began in movies in 1906, and soon she was working at Biograph Studios with director D.W. Griffith. Films often did not have credits, but Lawrence became a favourite with audiences, who knew her as "the Biograph girl" and later as "the IMP girl," when she switched studios. In 1914 she invented a turn signal for automobiles. "I have invented an ‘auto-signaling arm,’ ” she said, “which, when placed on the back of the fender, can be raised or lowered by electrical push buttons. The one indicating ‘stop’ works automatically whenever the foot brake is pressed." She was not the first to invent such a device, and she did not patent it. Her mother, Charlotte Bridgwood, invented and patented the electric windshield wiper in 1917.


3. Marlon Brando :


Toward the end of his life, Marlon Brando, who had been an avid drummer, worked on patenting a new conga drum that, instead of being tuned by five or six screws at the top, could be tuned by only a single crank at the bottom. Beginning in 2002, Brando received four patents for his drum-tuning system. However, he died in 2004 before he could achieve his dream of seeing his invention actually enter production. In 2011 drummer Poncho Sanchez actually played one of the Brando drums. "It sounded pretty good," he said, but, when asked about its practicality, “It’d be too expensive to make and people would be sending it back all the time.…But it was a cool idea."

4. Prince :


About the time he changed his name to a symbol and became "the artist formerly known as Prince," the Purple One designed a keytar that, with its swooping curves and arrows, resembled his new name. Prince never played the instrument—dubbed the Purpleaxxe—himself, and it was his keyboardist Tommy Barbarella who wielded the new invention. Prince received his patent as "Prince R. Nelson" in 1994.


5.Hedy Lamarr :


In September 1940 a German U-Boat sank the British freighter City of Benares; 262 died, including 87 children who were being evacuated to Canada. Hedy Lamarr, one of the top stars in Hollywood, began wondering how to make a remote-controlled torpedo that could attack a submarine. However, how could the torpedo avoid having its control signal jammed? During her disastrous marriage to Austrian arms dealer Fritz Mandl, whom she fled to arrive in Hollywood in 1937, she had learned much about armaments, especially torpedoes and radio jamming. She devised a system that she worked out with her friend, avant-garde composer George Antheil, in which a piano roll could switch the control signal among 88 different frequencies. They received a patent in 1942, but the U.S. Navy was unenthusiastic. Lamarr and Antheil’s patent expired in 1959, but their method, now known as spread-spectrum technology, became widespread in wireless technology like Wi-Fi. In the late 1990s Lamarr finally received recognition for her invention. Since her death in 2000, she has become equally well known as an actress and an inventor.

6 Jack Johnson :


At the height of racial segregation in 1908, Jack Johnson was the first black man to become the world heavyweight champion in boxing. In 1912 Johnson was arrested under the Mann Act for taking his white girlfriend Lucille Cameron, whom he later married, across state lines "for immoral purposes." He was sentenced to one year in prison, but he and Lucille fled to Europe. Johnson returned to America in 1920 and served his sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas. While in prison, Johnson invented an improved wrench that could be easily taken apart for cleaning and repair. He received his patent for it in 1922.


7. Eddie Van Halen :


The lead singer of Van Halen, in addition to being a metal god, has received three patents for his inventions. Fresh from the success of the 1984 album, in 1985 Eddie Van Halen devised the most rocking of his inventions, a "musical instrument support," U.S. patent 4656917A, in which a guitar rests hands-free on a support attached to the player’s waist, "thus allowing the player to create new techniques and sounds previously unknown to any player."

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Air Into Water

Air Into Water


Johathan Ritchey has invented the Watermill, which is an atmospheric water generator. It converts air into fresh water.


This latest technology invention produces fresh water at a cost of about 3 cents a liter (1 quart). Originally designed for areas that do not have clean drinking water, the Watermill is for households that prefer an eco-friendly, cost effective alternative to bottled water.

Atmospheric water generators convert air into water when the temperature of the air becomes saturated with enough water vapor that it begins to condense (dew point).

"What is unique about the Watermill is that it has intelligence," says Ritche. This makes the appliance more efficient. It samples the air every 3 minutes to determine the most efficient time to convert the air into water.

It will also tell you when to change the carbon filter and will shut itself off if it cannot make pure clean water.

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

3D Printed Car

3D Printed Car


The latest technology inventions in 3d printing are rapidly changing how things are being made.
It's an emerging technology that is an alternative to the traditional tooling and machining processes used in manufacturing.

At the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, a little known Arizona-based car maker created a media sensation by manufacturing a car at the show.

It was a full scale, fully functional car that was 3d printed in 44 hours and assembled in 2 days. The video below shows the car being made

The car is called a "Strati", Italian for layers, so named by it's automotive designer Michele Anoè because the entire structure of the car is made from layers of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (A.B.S.) with reinforced carbon fiber into a single unit.

The average car has more than 20,000 parts but this latest technology reduces the number of parts to 40 including all the mechanical components.

“The goal here is to get the number of parts down, and to drop the tooling costs to almost zero.” said John B. Rogers Jr., chief executive of Local Motors, a Princeton and Harvard-educated U.S. Marine.
“Cars are ridiculously complex,“ he added, referring to the thousands of bits and pieces that are sourced, assembled and connected to make a vehicle.

"It's potentially a huge deal," said Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research, noting that the material science and technology used by Local Motors is derived from their partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge,Tennessee.

This technology can use a variety of metal, plastic or composite materials to manufacture anything in intricate detail.

People tend to want what they want, when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it, which makes this technology disruptive in the same way digital technologies used by companies like Amazon and Apple disrupted newspaper, book and music publishers.

Imagine if you could customize and personalize your new car online and pick it up or have it delivered to you the next day at a fraction of the cost of buying one from a dealership?

Sunday, 4 December 2016

Car GPS Tracking

Car GPS  Tracking


Car GPS Tracking is fairly common in new vehicles, providing drivers with tracking and navigation.
However, latest technology inventions have made car GPS tracking systems more sophisticated, allowing for a wide range of additional uses.

Smartbox technology is one example of how car GPS tracking systems are being used to lower car insurance.

A comprehensive recording of a driver's habits allows insurance companies to provide "pay-as-you-drive" car insurance.

City officials in New York City are considering how car GPS tracking could be used as "Drive Smart" technology.

Most large cities have a limited capability to change the infrastructure of their roadways.
A car GPS tracking system that integrates with traffic information would give drivers the ability to select routes in real time that were more fuel efficient, less congested, faster or shorter.

A driver's recorded routing selection could then be used to penalize or reward drivers by lowering or increasing their related licensing fees or by calculating mileage based "road-use" fees.

Eventually, such a system would replace gasoline tax since these revenues will decline as more vehicles become less dependent on fossil fuels

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Vein Identification

Vein Identification


Another technology innovation is the biometric identification and security device known as Palm Secure.


It works by identifying the vein pattern in the palms of our hands.

Similar to our fingerprints, vein patterns are unique to each individual. The purported advantages of this technology is that it is less expensive, easier to manage, and is more reliable than traditional methods of identification.