Abstract: A system and method to remotely access optical disc media over a network. The present invention provides the benefits of consolidated storage of media and remote access, while maintaining an exclusive playback policy and allowing access to optical multimedia stored on remotely stored optical discs in accordance with the playback policy. The present invention provides a solution to those seeking to remotely access multimedia stored on optical discs from remote locations, particularly in situations that require direct hardware access to properly read the data from optical disc drives.

Abstract: The present invention provides a case-like container having plastic walls, for keeping items used in dental hygiene in which a substantial portion of the container is in the form of a beaker around which there is disposed a folded toothbrush within walls that can at least be partially torn off.

Abstract: For the manufacture of a denture, or artifical teeth, the prepared tooth stump is reproduced as a working model, and the substitute piece, suitably conformed to the working model, is shaped by hand. In order to facilitate the dentist's work, and at the same time attain great accuracy, it is provided that reproduction of the tooth stump is accomplished electro-optically in such a manner that surface-information signals corresponding to the tooth stump are generated and are converted in an electronic computer into electrical and/or magnetic control signals with the aid of which a milling machine automatically mills the working model out of a block of material; and/or that the positive substitute piece is milled by the milling machine from a block of material in accordance with control signals which are derived from surface-information signals which are electro-optically derived from the hand-shaped substitute or replacement model.