Abstract: Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a foam. The foam includes smokable material, such as tobacco. Also disclosed is a system, comprising an article and apparatus. The article includes a foam including smokable material. The apparatus is for heating the smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The apparatus includes a heating zone for receiving at least a portion of the article.

Abstract: In one aspect, apparatus is provided for generating an inhalable medium. The apparatus has a container for holding a liquid and a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container. The apparatus further has a chamber for receiving a material. The apparatus has an outlet. In use liquid volatilized by the heater passes, in the form of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol, through material received in the chamber to thereby entrain one or more constituents from the material to produce the inhalable medium which passes out of the outlet.

Abstract: In one aspect, apparatus is provided for generating an inhalable medium. The apparatus has a container for holding a liquid and a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container. The apparatus further has a chamber for receiving a material. The apparatus has an outlet. In use liquid volatilized by the heater passes, in the form of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol, through material received in the chamber to thereby entrain one or more constituents from the material to produce the inhalable medium which passes out of the outlet.

Abstract: In one aspect, apparatus is provided for generating an inhalable medium. The apparatus has a container for holding a liquid and a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container. The apparatus further has a chamber for receiving a material. The apparatus has an outlet. In use liquid volatilized by the heater passes, in the form of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol, through material received in the chamber to thereby entrain one or more constituents from the material to produce the inhalable medium which passes out of the outlet.

Abstract: Disclosed is an article for use with apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a foam. The foam includes smokable material, such as tobacco. Also disclosed is a system, comprising an article and apparatus. The article includes a foam including smokable material. The apparatus is for heating the smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The apparatus includes a heating zone for receiving at least a portion of the article.

Abstract: In one aspect, apparatus is provided for generating an inhalable medium. The apparatus has a container for holding a liquid and a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container. The apparatus further has a chamber for receiving a material. The apparatus has an outlet. In use liquid volatilized by the heater passes, in the form of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol, through material received in the chamber to thereby entrain one or more constituents from the material to produce the inhalable medium which passes out of the outlet.

Abstract: In one aspect, apparatus is provided for generating an inhalable medium. The apparatus has a container for holding a liquid and a heater for volatilizing liquid held in the container. The apparatus further has a chamber for receiving a material. The apparatus has an outlet. In use liquid volatilized by the heater passes, in the form of at least one of a vapor and an aerosol, through material received in the chamber to thereby entrain one or more constituents from the material to produce the inhalable medium which passes out of the outlet.

Abstract: This invention in phase homogenization of coherent light from illuminators used for surveillance imaging systems provides a coherent light emitter aligned with a light source ray path along an optical axis with at least two separated microdiffractive diffusers, the microdiffractive diffusers comprising holographically generated surfaces of microdiffractive structure that statistically tend to diffract light at selectable angles or distribution patterns, the microdiffractive diffusers disposed upon a substrate and separated from each other by a distance determined by wavelength phase and irradiance characteristics of the coherent light emitter and by refractive characteristics of at least two microdiffractive diffusers, followed by a homogenized exit ray path in order to produce a diffused pattern of illumination optimized for long distance surveillance imaging.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolytic device and apparatus comprising the same, where the electrolytic device includes a means for generating a first gas stream that is enriched with a first gas. In particular, the electrolytic device of the invention comprises a first tubular electrode and a second tubular electrode that is coaxially located within the first tubular electrode. The second tubular electrode comprises a plurality of orifices that is adapted to producing a first gas stream that is enriched with a first gas.

Abstract: A thermal imaging apparatus including a non-linear optomechanical scanner receiving radiation from a scene and directing it onto an image plane, the scanner defining a non-linear scan velocity in the image plane, a SPRITE detector disposed in the image plane including a first and second spaced contact and including apparatus for applying a bias voltage across the contacts in both directions thereby compensating for the non-linearity of the scanner and further taking into account the phase lag due to the detector and associated electronic circuitry and apparatus for filtering out the bias voltage from the output of the detector so that the output signal consists only of the signal due to photon flux.