Abstract: A folds-as-you-eat multi-purpose food-serving apparatus (‘MPFSA’) that is supportable from one end by one hand during eating, and has optional exhibiting means for providing multi-minute close-proximity exposures promoting observer-discernible content and/or user-discernible content, and optionally providing recreational, or display, functionality. The MPFSA is comprised of one or more materials having a pliability which accommodates the bending and unbending of the apparatus a plurality of times in a manner that will not significantly alter the presentation of served food. The MPFSA is also comprised of material(s) having sufficient rigidity to support one or more items of food, having a food-supporting surface which is stiffened by at least one adjacent food-retaining portion which extends upward from an edge thereof, or can be so positioned by a user, to increase the rigidity of, and facilitate the retention of served food on, the apparatus.

Abstract: A wearable pixelated apparel video-displaying system is disclosed comprising at least one flexible lightweight pixelated material having a contiguous imaging surface comprised of a multitude of pixels capable of displaying typical video rate, video image content which is contiguous in appearance and which covers up to all of the surface. The apparatus is equipped to playback, control and display imagery according to the size and the shape of one or more pixelated material segments making up the video-displaying apparel. The apparatus has an input/output interface a digital media content playback device, a user interface means for a user to communicate with the apparatus and to control the playback of at least one source of video content. In one embodiment the pixelated-image displaying apparel is contiguously formed into a single garment. In a second embodiment a plurality of apparel segments are adjoined to one another by attachment, and are electronically coupled together.

Abstract: A food serving apparatus having a flat food-supporting member consisting of a material sized to prevent served food from contacting unsanitary surfaces, and having sufficient rigidity, to support one or more food items. The food-supporting member has at least one food-retaining portion integrally formed adjacent thereto which extends upward, or can be positioned upward by a user, relative to the food-supporting member, in a manner which increases rigidity of the member. The food-supporting member has at least one bendable cross-section tangent to at least one user-breakable joint of a food-retaining portion to allow separation of the separable joint(s). Breaking of the joint(s) allows a user to bend the food-supporting member downward and away from food supported to facilitate the eating experience. The apparatus accommodates a variety of shapes and optionally includes a fold-over tab to assist a user in securing food beneath the tab and above the food-supporting member.

Abstract: A system for preventing the hijacking, or suicide-bombing, of aircraft, ocean-going vessels, or trains, having at least one onboard vehicle computer capable of operating the vehicle in an automated transportational mode along at least one path when any attempt to overtake or divert the vehicle is made or suspected, or threat of harm to any vehicle-personnel is made or suspected. The system has at least one signal receiver interfaced with, and having a communication link with, the computer(s), and the computer(s) is configured to be responsive to at least one secure signal when initiated by at least one user aboard the vehicle and sent from at least one signal transmitter to the signal receiver(s). The transmitter(s) has an easy-to-use user-interface which is operated by an engagement of at least one finger of user's hand to cause the signal to be sent to the receiver(s).

Abstract: A folds-as-you-eat multi-purpose food-serving apparatus (‘MPFSA’) that is supportable from one end by one hand during eating, and has optional exhibiting means for providing multi-minute close-proximity exposures promoting observer-discernible content and/or user-discernible content, and optionally providing recreational, or display, functionality. The MPFSA is comprised of one or more materials having a pliability which accommodates the bending and unbending of the apparatus a plurality of times in a manner that will not significantly alter the presentation of served food. The MPFSA is also comprised of material(s) having sufficient rigidity to support one or more items of food, having a food-supporting surface which is stiffened by at least one adjacent food-retaining portion which extends upward from an edge thereof, or can be so positioned by a user, to increase the rigidity of, and facilitate the retention of served food on, the apparatus.

Abstract: A panoramic imaging and display system for the imaging and displaying of visual-media content, comprising a screen configured for the display of panoramic imagery, having an interior surface-perimeter and an exterior surface-perimeter, wherein each of said surface-perimeters are substantially contiguous in appearance and are sized and shaped to have a display area on which, substantially contiguous panoramic visual-media content and segmented visual-media content can be imaged. The system provides support and positioning of the display to at least one height relative to a viewing audience to provide circumnavigable viewing, and a multitude of vantage points from which to view at least one of the surface-perimeters of the panoramic display. Embodiments of the system can have an array of speakers positioned around a perimeter of the system's screen as a sound-system providing a panning of audible sound which can be synchronized with the movement of objects seen moving on the screen.

Abstract: Visually-dynamic pixelated-image displaying apparel is disclosed comprising at least one flexible lightweight pixelated material having a contiguous imaging surface comprised of a multitude of pixels. The flexible pixelated material has electronic coupling means with at least one image-playback/image-control apparatus equipped to playback, control and display imagery according to the size and the shape of one or more pixelated material segment making up the displaying apparel. The image-playback/image-control apparatus is comprised of at least one control circuit, at least one intelligent controller, an electronic power source, at least one input/output interface means to receive and send digital media content, at least one digital media content playback means, a user interface means for a user to communicate with said apparatus and to control the playback of at least one source of digital media content, and intelligent controller software responsive to user input from said user interface means.

Abstract: This invention is a mixture of low-vapor-pressure hydrocarbon fuels and carbon dioxide mixed at normal pressures and temperatures in a ratio that facilitates the production of micro-droplets that enhance combustion in diesel and similar fuel burning engines resulting in a reduction of particulates ejected and a gain in efficiency. The presence of the gas in the fuel also decreases flammability in the atmosphere above the fuel surface.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method and system for communicating signals between handheld wireless communications devices and large-screen projection systems, or large-screen display systems, or both, via one or more publicly-accessible communications link. The invention provides the means for such devices to serve as interactive controllers of screen-content which is projected, or otherwise displayed, on such screen systems.

Abstract: A fuel additive controlling and maintaining apparatus used to eliminate the loss of absorbed CO2 gas mixed into liquid hydrocarbon fuel and particularly diesel fuel. In addition to the gas-enriched fuel, a gastight bag is utilized for holding a stabilizing gas mixture of CO2 and air that is not absorbed in the fuel. This bag, which is located within a protective enclosure and is connected into the ullage of a fuel tank, via a conduit, has approximately the same volume as the fuel tank. A two product refueling means is provided so that gas-enriched fuel is delivered to the fuel tank and the CO2 gas is delivered to the gastight bag. During fuel usage, as the fuel tank ullage increases, the gas mixture from the gastight bag maintains the ullage in a substantially filled condition thus, allowing the fuel to remain gas-enriched.

Abstract: A large-audience, positionable imaging and display system for the imaging and displaying of visual-media content, comprising a screen configured for the display of panoramic imagery having an interior surface-perimeter and an exterior surface-perimeter, wherein each of said surface-perimeters are substantially contiguous in appearance and are sized and shaped to have a display area on which, substantially contiguous panoramic visual-media content and segmented visual-media content can be imaged. The system has at least one support means for supporting the shape of a panoramic screen-display and a screen positioning means for positioning the display to at least one height relative to a viewing audience to provide circumnavigable viewing, and a multitude of vantagepoints from which to view at least one of the surface-perimeters of the panoramic display.

Abstract: A system for reversibly rotating a shaft for operation of the control system in a covering for an architectural opening includes two relatively linearly moveable members at least one of which has a low friction component engaging a helical path on the other so that linear movement of the members causes relative rotation to drive the rotatable shaft of the control system.

Abstract: A system for reversibly rotating a shaft for operation of the control system in a covering for an architectural opening includes two relatively linearly moveable members at least one of which has a low friction component engaging a helical path on the other so that linear movement of the members causes relative rotation to drive the rotatable shaft of the control system.

Abstract: A device (10) for storing, organizing and retrieving protective cases (70) that enclose optical and magnetic recording or recorded media. The device (10) consists of two major elements: a base member (12) that can be made in various configurations and at one or more protective case positioning members (20) that extend normal from the base member (12). The members (20) have one or more protective case aligning surface and can be made in various cross section configurations with the proviso that their aligning surfaces be formed contiguously and that they be designed to allow a protective case (70) to be slideably aligned between them. The device can also be made with a base member (12) having a case ejecting slot (30) that incorporates a protective-case ejection device (29). Additionally, the device (10) can have alphanumeric indicators placed on selected protective-case positioning members and/or directly on the protective case (70).

Abstract: Improved means for storing and retrieving articles including latching means for releasably retaining said articles, said latching means comprising a base member, a resilient lever portion projecting forwardly from said base member and formed with a latching projection extending upwardly adjacent the forward end of said lever portion to releasably retain an article on said latching means when said lever portion is in its normal raised position, and resilient means located adjacent the rear end of said base member and operable to eject an article from said base member when said lever portion is depressed, together with lock means movable into and out of a position to prevent depression of said lever to prevent unauthorized removal of articles from said latching means.

Abstract: An improved computer disk holder comprising a box-type container with one open side, or a side that can be opened, into which a plurality of labeled slots suitable for the insertion of computer disks or the like is provided and into each slot is positioned a spring-clip mechanism which may be independently activated in one configuration of said disk holder, by an external implement such as a pen, or in another configuration of said disk holder, by a lockable selector-button which will simultaneously point to an index, such as a numbered index, and dispense any correspondingly numbered disk when it is depressed, or dispense any sequence of numbered disks corresponding to that portion of the index which the selector-button slides over while being depressed at the same time.