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What to Do If Your Invention Was Stolen
The US Congress has the power to promote the progress of useful arts and science by granting the creator of a product exclusive rights to that product for a limited amount of time. By granting that person a patent, the product creator usually has 20 years of exclusive rights to what he or she invented.Patents are important because they ensure that the money and time someone has spent to develop a new product for the progress of science and the good of mankind will potentially be able to be recouped.The patent itself describes the invention. It includes drawings and art. If you own a patent then everyone else is excluded from making, using, selling, or importing that product for as long as you hold the patent.The most common patents are for inventions, secrets, artistic expressions, and semiconductor designs.Patents are sometimes called intellectual property because they are the products of someone’s mind. Once a patent for intellectual property is established the patent holder is entitled to the same kind of treatment as someone who owns tangible property.How Are Patents Created?Patents are created through a process called patent prosecution. The process determines whether
Latest Technological Inventions – Futuristic Inventions Revealed
The electronics revolution shows no signs of slowing down. When I was a youngster we had dial telephones, AM radio, and black & white TV with a tall antenna on the roof. We did not have microwave ovens, cell phones, computers, FM radio, or GPS systems and there were no satellites. Well hang onto your hats, because the revolution has just begun…X-ray vision is already here… sort of.Knowing that radio waves can pass through solid materials, in 2006, engineers at Cambridge Consultants in the UK announced they had built a device they called the Prism 200 which can detect people through a brick wall. The briefcase-sized system works by transmitting pulses of ultrawide-band radar and listening for returning echoes.According to the company, these pulses can pass through building walls over 16 inches thick, and detect human beings behind those walls over a range of up to 50 feet. The device can only detect people when they are moving.Erwin Biebl’s radar sensor. Biebl’s team at the Technical University of Munich in Germany has built a device that can pick up tiny motions like breathing, or even a beating heart, through a closed
Science Fiction Or Reality? Five Inventions That Will Happen in Your Lifetime
Science fiction has inspired millions to look into the future and just imagine what it could really look like. Great writers like Jules Verne, and HG Wells foresaw the use of Spacecraft, and submarines. Great minds like Leonardo Di Vinci, created plans of aircraft, and helicopters, half a millennium ago. Perhaps these five inventions could happen in our lifetime?1. Holographic TelevisionImagine watching a movie, without needing a screen. Holographic television could replace the way we see things today, on our screens. Perhaps we could even feel as if we are inside the movie itself.2. Flying AutomobilesThere are already prototypes of flying cars, but in the future our skies could become a new highway. These cars probably would be fueled by solar energy, and remake the way we design our cities.3. Food PillsA looming food crisis could encourage us to develop new ways on how to feed people. If estimates are true, there probably be 12 billion people by 2030, and a huge loss of land through global warming. Food pills could be one answer, which have been used to feed astronauts in space.4. Smart ClothesOur clothes of the future may be
Science, Reason, and Robots
by Philip Yaffe
It is often said that what distinguishes true science fiction from space horse operas is its ability to examine fundamental questions of ethics, philosophy, and sociology in situations so remote from contemporary life that they can be considered with greater acuity and less emotion. I was recently reminded of this when I inadvertently reread a short story by Isaac Asimov.
Anyone who knows anything about science fiction, and indeed science itself, is almost certainly familiar with this name. Author or editor of more than 500 books, Asimov (1920 – 1992) was a professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He is universally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction. He was also the nonpareil author of bestselling works on popular science, mathematics, religion, Shakespeare, and a wide variety of other topics.
The name of the short story is simply “Reason.” It recounts the intellectual confrontation between two astronauts manning a space station to channel solar energy back to an overcrowded Earth and one of their robot workers. They had assembled the robot from components sent from Earth about a week earlier.
This is an advanced robot compared to the others working on the