Butterfly Smoke Seal – a safety must-have for anywhere a fire can arise

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

Turn your last breath of oxygen into minutes for Escape and Rescue.  The Butterfly Smoke Seal will help protect lives by stopping poisonous gas and smoke from entering though the door in case of a fire. Poisonous gas and smoke is the #1 killer of children 14 and under. It’s been said that if a butterfly crosses your path it will bring you luck.

 

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tugo – drink holder for rolling luggage

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

The tugo® is a cup holder that keeps your drink suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag. Its unique design keeps your cup level to prevent sloshing. Easily attached and removed, tugo collapses to fit in any pocket of your carry-on luggage.

 

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Track It – GPS driven locator allows you to track misplaced or lost items

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

The Track It is a GPS (Global Positioning System) driven locator unit that comes with corresponding chips that allow you to track items/things of importance. Design intent is to provide a convenient handheld portable unit that easily locates items frequently misplaced or lost, saving the consumer time and frustration.

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Lightbulbs made of paper eliminate packaging

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A paper lightbulb?

Designer Tien-Ho Hsu has come up with a concept idea to reduce the amount of waste created by lightbulbs and their packaging. The solution, as this design presents, is emulsion-covered paper that glows when hooked up to an electricity source…

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HangEm Straight Flag Pole holds your flag straight every time

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

The problem with all flags whether it is Old Glory, a seasonal flag, or an artistic flag is that the flags don’t hang straight. With a traditional flag pole, the flag is always hanging at an angle so no one, including you, can enjoy the full beauty of the flag.

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Teach Me T’s alphabet t-shirts provide stimulation and learning all day long

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

Teach Me T’s by Kids Learning Boutique™ is a new patent-pending clothing design that focuses on this most intimate time and the toddlers’ desire to learn. The alphabet, both upper and lower case, and the decimal numbers, i.e., 1 through 10, and the colors are printed upside down on cotton T-shirts. While your child is trying to learn the alphabet, he/she can have the letters, numbers, and colors too at his/her fingertips all day. (Pics)

 

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MakH2OPak – disposable hydration system keeps patients orally hydrated

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

MakH2OPak™ is a patent pending disposable oral hydration system for those with compromised health to proved access to fluids anytime, anyplace and from any position.. It’s a smart solution to keeping patients orally hydrated, while allowing caregivers a way to easily monitor and record the intake of fluids.  (Pics)

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Microbial home: fuelling the kitchen with methane from waste

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Harnessing wast for power.

This concept design for a “microbial home” centered around a methane digester hub that feeds gas from your food into various appliances has a nice, bodgy, Rube Goldberg feel. We can call it methanepunk (not perfect, but better than “fartpunk”)…

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YuleaHoop – a revolutionary new way to decorate your Christmas tree

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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011 

The YuleaHoop™ is a small round ring with gripping slots that slips over the top branch of your Christmas Tree. The YuleaHoop securely holds ribbons and/or bead garlands in place. Decorating is fast, easy and secure. It will hold string popcorn and cranberries too! YuleaHoop is a revolutionary new way to decorate your tree.

 

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