Our latest project. This device allows you to swap laptop batteries WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN. Everyone wants longer battery life and the next best thing is getting bigger or more batteries. The problem? The time it takes to start up and shut down… well this little device plugs into the power plug and allows you to keep your laptop powered up while you swap batteries… obvious? Well why hasn’t anyone done it… such is the calling of an inventor.
If you would like to be one of the first to recieve one of these devices from our manufacturing run in the next few weeks then please make a comment to this post and I will have someone email you the price and availability as we come online. The price will be around $19-$29 USD. And will allow you to run for up to 10 minutes while swapping batteries. Please aks if you need more details. Thx
June 15, 2007
Back in 1995 an opportunity came up to do a world first… combine a popular computer game AND digital music onto one CD. The game was an unlockable Uniloc-enabled copy of shoot-em-up DOOM and the music of the popular pop group Kulcha.
The idea was that the CD was purchased for the music and every buyer would get the opportunity to install and try the game DOOM as an added bonus. The game would only work for the first few levels of the game but would have to be purchased by getting an unlock code over the phone to play the game fully. It really worked well because the same kids that got into Kulcha aslo were only starting to get into computer games.
The album was set to be released by Warner Music but there was one big problem. When a CD player started playing it would try to play the game data which sounded like million gnats flying out your speakers and did real speaker damage.
A simple invention that I unfortunately never patented was the idea of hiding the game data from the CD players index, thereby tricking the player to see the fist track as the fisrt music track rather than the data. It worked. And the Kulcha CD was a success.
The CD was used as a lead component in a presentation to visiting Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin, and resulted in an invitation to Ric to come visit the fortune 100 company later that year.
May 17, 2007
The opening sequence of the movie Mission Impossible II captured the imagination of futurists everywhere. The central character, Ethan Hunt, recieves his instructions by putting on a cool looking pair of sunglasses. The text and graphics are transaparently overlayed over the top of the lenses. That scene has inspired me ever since.
A breakthrough came when working with professor Peter Rentzepis of UCI (University of California in Irvine). Our discussions on light and lasers encouraged me to investigate how polaroid lenses work. Using the polaroid priciple as a base our experiments are encouraging and may soon result in a demonstrable prototype that uses the unique filtering/ trapping of light seen in the polaroid lense as a means of capturing a small LCD projector and displaying it transaparently over the usual image seen while using glasses.
Updates will be added ot this post as we progress.
May 17, 2007
One day I was trawling the web looking desperately to find a way to get email to my parents street mail box and realized that all the systems out there were fiddly, problematic and expensive. What is needed is a simple method that takes a standard email and gets itself printed and mailed in the reciepients country at the lowest possible mail rate.
The trick is making the addressing easy. And then a simple system of checking the mailing address via return email before finally sending it to the physical mail address.
Well we got it working AND patented it.
All you do is place the physical address in the top 5 lines of the email and leave a blank line. The server simply collects the address, sends an email to you to verify the address and then sends it off. With Terremail you can buy $5 of postage at a time using paypal and there are plans to have it print color and deliver registered and on card stock…. cool!
If you would like to be part of the beta email me at ric.r at r2labs.com.
May 17, 2007
