Hello all:
On June 20 I met with Tom Mcewan and Tom Moore at LLNL. Moore
is my old assistant division leader at the lab.
Mcewan has a device he calls Micro Impulse Radar (MIR). He has
filed patent apps for many uses of MIR. Its use by the blind is pretty
much of an afterthought with Mcewan. Moore is interested in incorporating
MIR in a locaator system for tourists, a system he believes blind people
might find useful, also.
The good news is that Mcewan demonstrated a device to send and
detect pulses in a Doppler radar system to indicate speed of an object.
This transmit-receive head costs three bucks from a Taiwanese manufacturer.
These folks seem relatively flexible on where to go from here.
I will bring some PR material and a reprint to the convention for the
R&D committee.
Tim, you would like Mcewan. He's as crazy an inventor as one
T. V. Cranmer <grin>.
Jim Willows
jwillows@netcom.com
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