Monthly Archives: December 2015

Spengler’s head-up display

Nowaday cars is a proving area for technological innovations. It is now, and it was in the past at the dawn of the automotive industry.

A patent for invention “Speed indicator” (US2430690) had been published in a distant 1947. Author is Lester B Spengler. The invention relates to automotive vehicles and describes a speedometer, which suspended on line of driver’s look.

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Silent sounder

Computing devices such as personal computers, laptops, tablets, cellulars, and countless types of Internet-of-Thing devices are increasingly prevalent in numerous aspects of modern life. Also they have a lot of different multimedia features. All the world delays in expecting of inexpensive wearable “like-glass” computers.
Hypothetically this one computer will includes cellular- and interaction-means. One of important means is sound reproductor. But classical cellular’s speaker – is very big or loud, and small earphone is unpleasant to carry all of the day. Therefore, a bone conduction has come to help in this problem. There are exist a lot of devices based on “bone-conduction” principle.
One of the first Google’s glasses (US8553910) includes vibration transducer (marked by 182 at picture) in the role of bone-condction speaker.
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Senior fox

There is known sports and technical game called “fox hunting”. Players take radio-bearings. Aim of the game is find as soon as possible “foxes” with use own radio-bearing. In the role of the “foxes” are radio transmitters. But there is another type of fox.6 Continue reading

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