Abstract: A recreational water board for towing a person behind a water craft on or below the surface of the water. The board includes a substantially planar structure with a pair of wings on either side of a central axis of symmetry. Each wing has a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge being swept-back to give the board a hydro-dynamically contoured profile. The board also includes handgrips to enable the board to be firmly gripped while being towed, and pairs of apertures arranged symmetrically on either side respectively of a central board axis for attaching a tow bridle to the board. The pairs of apertures define a pivot axis, perpendicular to the central axis, about which the board may be tilted to enable the user to dive or resurface in the water, depending on the direction of tilt.

Abstract: The invention emulates the operation of a healthy urethra by providing a valve with a large differential between the opening pressure and the closing pressure. The differential is achieved by using a snap action created by the action of the urine flow on a force that drops off rapidly with displacement. A preferred way to achieve such as force is by using permanent magnets. The valve is installed simply by insertion into the urethra and can easily be removed. No surgical procedure is involved.

Abstract: A recreational water board for towing a person behind a water craft on or below the surface of the water. The board includes a substantially planar structure with a pair of wings on either side of a central axis of symmetry. Each wing has a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge being swept-back to give the board a hydrodynamically contoured profile. The board also includes handgrips to enable the board to be firmly gripped while being towed, and pairs of apertures arranged symmetrically on either side respectively of a central board axis for attaching a tow bridle to the board. The pairs of apertures define a pivot axis, perpendicular to the central axis, about which the board may be tilted to enable the user to dive or resurface in the water, depending on the direction of tilt.

Abstract: An integrated circuit digital device is coupled to a memory with a single-node data, address and control bus. The memory may be a non-volatile memory and/or volatile memory. The memory may be packaged in a low pin count integrated circuit package. The memory integrated circuit package may have a ground terminal, VSS; a power terminal, VDD or VCC; and a bidirectional serial input-output (I/O) terminal, SCIO. Memory block address set-up may be performed via software instructions through the SCIO terminal. In addition, hardwired memory block address selection terminals A0 and A1 may be used when more then three terminals are available on the memory integrated circuit package. The memory may have active pull-up and pull-down drivers coupled to the single-node data, address and control bus.

Abstract: A separating device that includes a wedge that extends between first and second plates, with at least one of the plates being supported by a support device such as a bar. The support device supports the or each plate while the device is in use so that the plate(s) are substantially prevented from bending or twisting due to the forces applied to the plate(s).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a separating device (1, 100) that includes a wedge (30, 130) that extends between first and second plates (10, 110, 20, 120). At least one of the plates (10, 110, 20, 120) is supported by a support device (e.g. a bar 31). The support device supports the or each plate (10, 110, 20, 120) whilst the device (10, 110, 20, 120) is in use so that the plate(s) (10, 110, 20, 120) are substantially prevented from bending or twisting due to the forces applied to the plate(s) (10, 110, 20, 120).

Abstract: The present invention is a method and device for toll-free telephonic communications. According to a method of the present invention, a caller dials a toll-free number to establish a connection with a telecommunications platform. The caller then enters an authorization code that the telecommunications platform validates. If the authorization code is valid, the telecommunications platform can connect the caller to a called party or record a message by the caller for later retrieval by the called party.