Abstract: A portable device provides a user with access to personalized information about the region in which the device is located. The device sends an identification signal to a communications system. The identification signal can include location information for the device, or the communications system itself can determine the location of the device. Using the device location, the communications system gathers localized information, which is filtered by a set of predefined data selection preferences for the user that are associated with identification information included in the identification signal. The communications system sends the resulting personalized local information to the portable device for access by the user.

Abstract: A game of tag using wireless devices is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, players in a game space are each assigned a player to tag and assigned to another player to be tagged. Thus, each player is both “it” (trying to tag a target player) and a target (trying to evade being tagged). Interaction among players is conducted via wireless device.

Abstract: A game of tag using wireless devices is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, players in a game space are each assigned a player to tag and assigned to another player to be tagged. Thus, each player is both “it” (trying to tag a target player) and a target (trying to evade being tagged). Interaction among players is conducted via wireless device.

Abstract: An interactive entertainment system (game) that provides rewards to a player by accumulating clues, wherein one or more clues provide a revenue node is described. Revenue nodes from various sources provide financial incentive for game generation, while complexity of play, team interaction, and rewards provide incentive for player involvement. A game engine is provided to provide core functionality for the use of game developers including the players themselves, thereby creating their own games.

Abstract: This invention relates to space stations and particularly to a novel station composed of structural elements for a complete station adapted in their entirety to be launched in a single voyage as cargo in the hold of a present-day space shuttle, for example, and to be deployed in space and there erected to form a structure presenting a number of modules, held in fixed spaced relation to each other, adapted to enclose a variety of functional areas and as a whole to be rotated to generate centrifugal force in simulation of gravity.

Abstract: An entirely pneumatic feedback signal can be generated within a gas delivery system by diverting the portion of the gas from the main supply line to a cryostat. The gas is cooled in the cryostat and flows within a restricted passageway defined by the cryostat itself. The output of the cryostat is then coupled to the control port of a actuatable pneumatic valve. The actuatable pneumatic valve is coupled in series in the supply line and is normally biased closed. However, upon application of a predetermined magnitude of pressure to the control port of the actuatable valve, the valve is maintained in a open configuration. The output of the cryostat is provided to the control port of the valve. A fixed orifice is pneumatically communicated to the output of the cryostat and vents the cryostat's output into the environment. As long as the gas continues to flow freely through the cryostat the valve remains open.