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Stories containing inventions related to Sensors, tracing similar ideas across companies and years through patent drawings.
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Things · Parenting
Baby Care, One Task at a Time: 9 Patents That Hand the Work to Machines
A baby carrier built onto a walking-assistance robot, a stroller that brakes when the adult lets go, a responsive sleep aid, automated formula preparation, a bottle that measures its contents, a diaper that distinguishes urine from feces, an automatic washer and diaper changer, camera-based respiration monitoring, and a pacifier that announces when it falls: nine patents that hand small pieces of baby care to machines.
Companies · LEGO
Building Functions Into Bricks: 10 LEGO Inventions Seen in Patent Drawings
An electronic character that reads markers, a push-button figurine, a 3×3 light-matrix brick, a modular motor, camera/LiDAR sensing, a robotics brain, physical logic bricks, user-designed parts, AR identities built from bricks, and asymmetric play split between the real and virtual worlds.
Companies · Nike
Shoes That Tighten, Clothes That Teach: 8 Nike Patents for Wearable Machines
Stimulus-responsive garment textiles, gesture-controlled footwear, image-displaying surfaces, haptic apparel, magnetic fasteners, cooling garments, multi-pressure air soles, and heated footwear: eight Nike patents that push clothes and shoes toward becoming machines.
Things · Bathrooms
The Toilet Seat as a Measuring Instrument, and Eight Other Patent Ideas
A toilet that personalizes light and sound, sensors that hunt for a urine stream, a urine analyzer built into the seat, camera-based health monitoring, a sealed analytical bowl, weight estimation from the seat, a cleaner that travels around the ring, a folding toilet-table, and a toilet that changes height for the user.
Things · Food
Electric Taste and Sensor Plates: 10 Patents Rethinking Meals
A burger-flipping robot, a 3D food printer, personalized nutrition from diagnostic samples, AR menus, electrically simulated taste, cartridge-based scent, utensils and plates that measure eating, serving robots and a robotic bartender. Ten patents that make the meal programmable one step at a time.
Things · Wearables
Adding to the Human Body: 10 Patents for Extra Limbs, Senses and Support
A chair you wear on your legs, extra arms on your back, a sixth finger, ultrasound-evoked body sensations, self-lacing shoes, haptic gloves, smart contact lenses, skin-mounted chemical sensors and a wearable airbag. Ten public patents that try to redraw the boundary of the human body.