Announcing SneezeNergy
April 01 , 2008
I am a software developer by profession. But not many know that I am a big-time mechanics and electronics buff. I love designing cool toys that help me do things better. Very often I say - "If I hadn't been in the software industry, I'd be a mechanical engineer designing cool machines".
All of us should know that when we sneeze, on an average 40,000 liquid droplets traveling at 150kmph - 1045kmph come out of our nose. Now that is a lot of energy. And all of us end up wasting this huge amount of energy.
Since last several hundred weekends (ever since I first got to know of nano-technology), I had been working on a device that can collect this energy and make it usable to humans. Obviously, I got ridiculed every now and then by friends for working on a crazy thing which they thought would never yield anything successful.
Nevertheless, with a few committed volunteers, I continued working. After years of research and commitment, I am finally ready with the device. I call it SneezeNergy - a novel innovation that conserves the energy otherwise wasted when we sneeze.
How does it work?
The working-principle of SneezeNergy is very simple - accumulate the droplets and convert the mechanical energy into electrical energy with the help of turbines.
The real challenge was to build turbines that could fit on the nose of a human (that too without causing any twitching in the nose).
I built these nano-turbines with the help of several thousand nano-bots that I rented from a company (I can't disclose my source as it is a trade secret).
Once the electrical pulses are available, SneezeNergy creates non-turbulent electromagnetic flux spikes of low magnitude which is transfused into the human body (the person who is wearing SneezeNergy) thereby allowing reentry of the energy that was released during the sneezing process.
What does it look like?
One of my volunteers (Caty) wore SneezeNergy and I took a couple of snaps. These are the very first images of what will be known to the world as one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century.
Can I buy it?
Not yet. I am reviewing the manufacturing process and trying to train the nano-bots for mass production. You see it gets really tricky training these little beasts (I hope they don't read my blog). They are expert in hiding and often disappear trying to play pranks on me. Little kids.. can't help it!
On a serious note, I plan to start mass production by the end of 2008.
Note: Microsoft does not have any affiliation or association with the project. I'll see if I can sell it to the management though!!!
Comments
Avishek said on 4.01.2008 at 1:08 PM
Now this is called perfect timing.... i just had a power cut yday for not paying the bills for 2 months...
Gud job man... keep it up....... when do i get to use this cool, out of the world , breakthru gadget which you have come up with.........
btw: the date today tells me a different story!!!!!
keep sneezing!!!!!
Mayukh Datta said on 4.01.2008 at 2:32 PM
Man... u just made my day... I have mad an invention myself, I created a machine which can make a human being sneeze and cough continuously and that too increase the sneeze velocity by 10 times (avg velocity 1500 mph). I have already patented the technology and call it iDust. We must combine forces, and launch it today at the Internation "AF" Conference, what say you :)
Pankaj Kumar Singh said on 4.01.2008 at 2:52 PM
I liked your first volunteer(Caty) that wore your so called invention of the century *SneezeNergy*.
Rohini said on 4.01.2008 at 3:41 PM
Wow.... what an invention and to announce it on such auspicious day........ gr8 idea buddy [ :D ]........ I am proud of You... May be i can help you in marketing this product and you can give me some share of the profit..... Lolzzzzzz
Navrang said on 4.10.2008 at 11:18 AM
Yaar, Everything looks fine, but where you are transferring this mega energy & for what......
KahiN sabko April Fool to nahi bana rahe ho...... ;-)
Ajay said on 5.21.2008 at 2:17 PM
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Amol Neurgaonkar said on 11.18.2008 at 11:17 PM
Human body is full of energy. The fact that after sneezing, a person feels no difference in energy levels or weight levels indicates the percentage of energy loss is negligible.
Also, sneeze frequency for an avg human is too low. Just to put some number, say once per month or 15 times a year.
Finally, taking the energy and using to to do something cool can still be thought of as a novel idea or business model. However, transferring the energy back to the body(which obviously wont make any difference, since sneezing out doesnt bring any difference) is too trivial and wont fetch you the moolah that you will spend in researching the technology and mass production of the masks.
So, my one and only question to you would be, given the above factors into consideration - what is your business model ? Do you plan to make big bucks ? or do u plan to make it into books of novel creations ?