Abstract: A wearable display system includes one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The micro-displays may be monochrome micro-displays or full-color micro-displays. The micro-displays may include arrays of light emitters. Light collimators may be utilized to narrow the angular emission profile of light emitted by the light emitters. Where a plurality of emissive micro-displays is utilized, the micro-displays may be positioned at different sides of an optical combiner, e.g., an X-cube prism which receives light rays from different micro-displays and outputs the light rays from the same face of the cube. The optical combiner directs the light to projection optics, which outputs the light to an eyepiece that relays the light to a user's eye. The eyepiece may output the light to the user's eye with different amounts of wavefront divergence, to place virtual content on different depth planes.

Abstract: In an approach to networking devices using an ephemeral mesh network, the system includes: a plurality of devices, each device of the plurality of devices further comprising a wireless interface to communicate with a mobile device; and a controller. The controller includes circuitry configured to connect to the mobile device; authenticate the mobile device; responsive to authenticating the mobile device, establishing a mesh network of the plurality of devices, wherein each light device connects to at least one other devices of the plurality of devices to create a mesh network; and responsive to disconnecting from the mobile device, dissolving the mesh network by disconnecting each device from the plurality of devices.

Abstract: In an approach to generating a wake-up advertisement to a remote device, a system includes: a computing device comprising communications circuitry, including an advertisement initiation circuitry; one or more computer processors; one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media; and instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors. The instructions include: send one or more wake-up advertisements to one or more remote devices; receive one or more connection advertisements from the responding remote device; and responsive to receiving the one or more connection advertisements from the responding remote device, connect to the responding remote device.

Abstract: A wearable display system includes a light projection system having one or more emissive microdisplays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The light projection system projects time-multiplexed left-eye and right-eye images, which pass through an optical router having a polarizer and a switchable polarization rotator. The optical router is synchronized with the generation of images by the light projection system to impart a first polarization to left-eye images and a second different polarization to right-eye images. Light of the first polarization is incoupled into an eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to one of the left and right eyes, while light of the second polarization may be incoupled into another eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to the other of the left and right eyes. Each eyepiece may output incoupled light with variable amounts of wavefront divergence, to elicit different accommodation responses from the user's eyes.

Abstract: A solar disk light has a central body and an annular shelf surrounding the central body and attached to the central body by one or more struts, defining a gap between an inner surface of the annular shelf and the central body. LEDs are disposed on the annular shelf. The central body has solar cells for harvesting solar energy and detecting ambient light. The central body contains a rechargeable battery for storing harvested solar energy, a switch, and wiring and driver electronics for operably connecting the solar cells, battery, switch, and LEDs. A translucent shell is on the disk light body, covering the annular shelf and LEDs, such that light emitted by the LEDs shines through the shell. The shell has an opening for receiving the central body such that the solar cells are not covered by the shell, the shell having an inner wall received in the gap.

Abstract: The current disclosure teaches and describes a generator assembly and related hand crank devices. One embodiment of the device may include a traditional generator, a handle and a crank link. The crank link is rotatably connected to the handle in a perpendicular position. A user may hold the handle and wield the hand crank device to make the crank link rotate around the handle like a clock hand, enabling the generator to provide power to the hand crank device. Such wielding motion may also be driven by other forces. The current design allows the user to charge the device with only one hand and with ease. In addition, the “functioning” components of the current hand crank device may be housed in or attached to either the handle or crank link, or both. Other components may also be introduced to make the generator assembly more efficient and easy to use.

Abstract: The current disclosure teaches and describes a generator assembly and related hand crank devices. One embodiment of the device may include a traditional generator, a handle and a crank link. The crank link is rotatably connected to the handle in a perpendicular position. A user may hold the handle and wield the hand crank device to make the crank link rotate around the handle like a clock hand, enabling the generator to provide power to the hand crank device. Such wielding motion may also be driven by other forces. The current design allows the user to charge the device with only one hand and with ease. In addition, the “functioning” components of the current hand crank device may be housed in or attached to either the handle or crank link, or both. Other components may also be introduced to make the generator assembly more efficient and easy to use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for determining an aerodynamic drag area CxA of a moving vehicle, for example a bicycle, in dependence upon the airflow yaw direction and speed without the use of a wind tunnel. The vehicle is equipped with sensors for collecting time-stamped values indicative of the vehicle speed, propulsion force, airflow speed and yaw angle of the airflow at various points during the trip. The trip data are then processed using successively refined hypotheses regarding the CxA(yaw) dependence to generate a plurality of elevation profiles for the travelled path. The generated elevation profiles are then evaluated based on available route elevation information to select a correct dependence of the aerodynamic drag area upon the yaw angle of the airflow.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for determining an aerodynamic drag area CxA of a moving vehicle, for example a bicycle, in dependence upon the airflow yaw direction and speed without the use of a wind tunnel. The vehicle is equipped with sensors for collecting time-stamped values indicative of the vehicle speed, propulsion force, airflow speed and yaw angle of the airflow at various points during the trip. The trip data are then processed using successively refined hypotheses regarding the CxA(yaw) dependence to generate a plurality of elevation profiles for the travelled path. The generated elevation profiles are then evaluated based on available route elevation information to select a correct dependence of the aerodynamic drag area upon the yaw angle of the airflow.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, workflow based procedures are authored, tested and converted to a collection of resource automation scripts with orchestration rules. The scripts and rules are uploaded to a cloud-based provisioning service. The cloud-based provisioning service follows the orchestration rules to coordinate with a provisioning agent installed on a VM host, storage area network (SAN) or other network device to execute a sequence of scripts to provision or tear down resources.

Abstract: A drinking straw includes a straw, a fixed collar, and a moveable collar. The straw has an upper part having an open upper end for reception in the mouth of a user, a lower part having an open lower end for immersion in a liquid to be sucked through the straw by the user, a convoluted part provided between the upper and lower parts, a passageway extending through the fix collar and a side wall of the lower part of the straw, and a moveable collar for selectively closing and opening the passageway, whereby when the passageway is in an opening position inside the moveable collar, air is sucked into the straw through the passageway when liquid is sucked through the straw by the user, thereby to create vibrations in the convoluted part of the straw.

Abstract: Novel aromatic guanidine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydroxyl, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or methyl, are found to have biological activity. The guanidine compounds and their salts are shown to be active as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: Resin peptides useful in the preparation of salmon calcitonin are disclosed along with processes for preparing the same. The invention also embraces peptides from which the resin moiety has been cleaved and which are useful in the synthesis of salmon calcitonin together with processes for preparing the cleaved peptides. In general, the processes involve the solid phase synthesis procedures.

Abstract: Novel aromatic guanidine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydroxyl, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or methyl, are found to have biological activity. The guanidine compounds and their salts are shown to be activate as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: Novel aromatic guanidine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydroxyl, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or methyl, are found to have biological activity. The guanidine compounds and their salts are shown to be active as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation consisting of a pharmaceutical grade carrier and a therapeutically active amount of an aromatic guanidine compound having the formula: ##STR1## or a non-toxic acid addition salt thereof are found to have biologically useful activity. These guanidine preparations and salts are shown to be active as vasoconstrictor agents and obtain useful biological results when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical preparations and methods of using the same to treat a host having a condition requiring vasoconstrictive therapy. The preparations comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a guanidine compound, or non-toxic acid addition salt thereof, having the structural notation: ##SPC1##Wherein: R.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl having 1-4 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, hydroxy, chloro, fluoro or bromo; and R.sub.3 is hydrogen or the same as R.sub.2 when R.sub.2 is chloro, bromo or fluoro.

Abstract: A novel aromatic guanidine compound having the formula: ##SPC1##Is found to have biological activity. This guanidine compound and its salts are shown to be active as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.