Category: Examples Blog
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Automatic Stove Top Shut Off
This type of stove burner turns off automatically when pot or pan is removed.
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Keeping Pool Water Levels at the Right Level
This device continuously monitors the water level. If the level is too low, a valve opens to add water to the pool.
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Shoplifting Prevention
Retail stores and libraries use “electronic article surveillance” systems to prevent the removal of merchandise and books that have not been paid for or checked out.
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Smoke Detectors
Many smoke detectors are designed so they cannot be mounted on the wall until a battery is installed.
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Brake Systems
Some brake systems utilize permanent magnets to generate power-off braking force. Current supplied to magnetic coils counter permanent magnetic force to keep the brakes from engaging during normal operation.
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Elevator Doors
Many Elevators are equipped with an electric eye to prevent doors from shutting on people. They also are equipped with sensors and alarms to prevent operation when overloaded.
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Automatically Retracting Pen
This pen prevents ruining shirts by retracting the tip automatically when the pen is clipped into your shirt pocket. The catch that keeps the tip out is actually in the pocket clip. When you pullout on the clip to put it on your shirt, the pin that engages the catch is released causing the tip…
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SawStop Technology Protects Your Fingers From the Blade
This technology protects a user from losing a finger or worse:
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Mistake Proofing Against Scheduling Two WordPress Posts on One Day
Publishing two posts on the same day isn’t the worst thing ever, but my aim at LeanBlog.org is to keep things to at most one post per day. Doing so helps “level load” the reading for my regular readers. And it allows me to level-load my social media posts about the blog posts. I recently…