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A Playground Slide Gets Its Feet Under the Handrails

Slide Foot puts two connected supports beneath a playground slide's side walls, making the fit between the chute and its feet the interesting engineering problem.

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A Battery Plug That Gets a Bath, an Eye Exam and a Retirement Date

SK On proposes a production loop that pulls temporary plugs from battery cells, cleans them, inspects them by camera and decides which ones go back to work.

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The Tweezers Whose Teeth Need Room to Close

Milled facets and tiny notches give these proposed medical tweezers a way to mesh, linking the shape of a tissue-gripping tip to how it is made.

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A Robot That Turns an Orange Into a Reason to Talk

A proposed household robot turns spoken requests and familiar objects into collectible characters, with upgrades and timed rewards to keep interaction going.

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Two Controller Grips, One Cord, and the Question of a Secure Fit

Sony's application proposes controller grips pulled against a phone by a flexible cord, with grooves and soft supports doing the delicate work of keeping it steady.

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Scrap Metal Needs More Than a Good Look

A proposed sorter combines AI image checks with elemental measurements to separate mixed metals, making the relationship between those checks the interesting part.

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Metal Scrap Gets Another Turn, but the Feeder Sets the Limit

Two controlled feeders put metal scrap back into molding, balancing the appeal of reuse against iron contamination and the demands of a measured blend.

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The Exhaust Catalyst That Gives Precious Metals Somewhere to Stay Useful

A proposed exhaust catalyst swaps the material beneath palladium and rhodium, aiming to preserve their usefulness after severe heat and changing gas conditions.

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The Bank Game That Updates Its Opinion of You

A proposed banking game turns answers into profile updates, then uses that revised picture to choose financial information, products or account links.

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A Dartboard Where One Bad Letter Can Restart Your Word

Cards set spelling and color challenges on this gridded dartboard, while tilted letters can restart a word, replace it, or send it to another player.

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A choice-driven science-fiction story about twelve habitats sharing a dimming star. You are the Meridian Cartographer, keeping the record the Conclave must confront.

A branching narrative of habitat perspectives, evidence pins, Conclave votes, route choices, and an on-device archive of the decisions you make.

Browser toolkitb2KIT

A working library of more than 2,700 single-purpose browser tools plus editable document templates. Every tool runs on your own device, so nothing is uploaded to a server.

Twelve tool categories: text and writing, developer and code, file and format conversion, color and design, security and privacy, math and calculators, finance and business, social and marketing, productivity and time, file and data, communication, and education reference.

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What the Bag's Fill Level Changes Upstream

A buffer system mixes concentrate with water, checks the recipe, and lets storage bags call for refills. The inclined shelves matter more than you'd expect.

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A Rivet Tool Puts Its Own Shadow on Notice

A ring of LEDs surrounds the rivet tool’s nose, while a two-stage trigger offers light before the pull. The details go beyond adding a lamp.

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A Platinum Honeycomb Has to Earn Its Coat

A water-testing catalyst gets a carefully staged coating, furnace treatment and ammonia finish. The revealing results concern how that surface holds up.

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Sotorasib and rivaroxaban at standard doses: a filing about leaving both labels alone

Method and Key detail form one stated connection: Methods of treating cancer with a KRAS G12C mutation in a patient who also needs rivaroxaban.

When Player Traits Become an Arrangement Problem

Player Device plus Communications Interface carry the practical point: A system evaluates player traits using a player device.

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A Drum, a Level, and a Quiet Alignment

Cleaning Device and Washing-Liquid Level Signal: A device controls a washing machine or cleaning device based on a washing-liquid level signal in a rotating screen drum.

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Golf Scoring Between Screen and Field

Start with System and Method: A hybrid golf system senses a user's shots on a screen golf course. It keeps the central design choice visible.

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Quiet Alignment at the Wellhead

Start with Assembly and System: An apparatus for autonomous landfill gas monitoring and automation includes a non-invasive wellhead assembly.

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A Stack of Evidence Before the Decision

Transient Fuel Samples is fuel taken at a moment when its condition may be changing, rather than from a stable, fixed batch.

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When a Game Character Crosses Servers, Who Supplies the Rest of the Scene?

System and Synchronize Data: A multiplayer game system uses game servers that accept player-terminal connections and process player-character operations.