Solutions:  118-51  50-1 Emotional Toyota (16.05.2005) The car can slit its "eyes" - headlights - maliciously; its cowling can change color to red, becoming "livid with rage". Stretch jogging shoes (09.05.2005) Parents often encounter the following problem - shoes bought for a child become too small for him or her in a month or so. Toyota "mercury drop" (11.04.2005) What are basic requirements for a city car? First, small size, and second, manoeuvrability. Spindle-legged monitor (21.03.2005) Ergotron's specialists proposed mounting a monitor to a stand by means of a long multi-hinge construction. Tube (28.02.2005) The tube is a remarkable thing compared to vials and jars. Wind-propelled solar power station (14.02.2005) Using the sun and wind is an ecologically safe method for producing power. Filter against apoplexy (24.01.2005) Sometimes it is much more effective to consider a human body as an engineering construction. Keyboard for squirrels (07.01.2005) Forehanded people - squirrels - use various places to tuck useful things. Symphony of color from the past (24.12.2004) There is a beautiful white-stone church in one of the squares of Poitiers, France. Glass cleaning (20.12.2004) Glass itself without additional facilities removes dirt sticking to it. Eyeglasses for sushi (06.12.2004) The sushi ball size is just convenient for taking such a ball with chopsticks, dipping it into soy and putting into the mouth. Russia's strategic refrigerator (22.11.2004) Building such a refrigerator costs much and using it costs even more. Vertical take-off paraglider (15.11.2004) What is to be done when no take-off ground is available? Ring printer (12.11.2004) It seems as if it is impossible to make a printer that would be smaller in a size than a sheet of paper. Navajo Code (08.10.2004) During the Second World War, the Marine Corps Command of the United States was confronted by a difficult problem of providing secrecy of communicated messages. Anti-mosquito telephone (02.02.2004) In South Korea, they found a method for fighting mosquitoes with the help of mobile phones. Wheeled mastodons (26.01.2004) We have got accustomed to considering the tank as an armored caterpillar war machine. "Seamless" display (19.01.2004) A successful test will mean great possibilities for creating displays of unlimited size. Drain pipe (12.01.2004) Ancient inventions often exhibited a special elegance of solutions. Magic mirror (07.01.2004) You can watch TV news while shaving or brushing your teeth. Underwater New Year Tree (29.12.2003) Some days ago, fifteen divers delivered a huge New Year Tree to the bottom of Lake Baikal. Internet in Russia (22.12.2003) Russian inventors found a new simple and inexpensive method for information transmission for great distances. Elastic wing (17.12.2003) The airplane controls evolution has made a spiral turn to return to the old, almost forgotten technical solution. Automotive toys (08.12.2003) A real large car styled as a toy car. Dynamic figure (01.12.2003) In Korea, they like inflatable decorations. Virtual "wall" (20.10.2003) How to prevent a passenger airliner from plunging into a skyscraper even if the pilot strives to do this. Miracle bed (13.10.2003) Hope sprang with mankind that this invention will help to do away with backache. Airship - fire-fighter (29.09.2003) American engineers and scientists are engaged in the development of an airship to be used for fighting large forest fires. Fighting palsy (22.09.2003) Researchers of Hokkaido University in Japan presented a unique medical invention. Nanotechnologies and artificial organs (15.09.2003) So the first step has been made towards artificial creation of a real living organ. Treat only affected organs! (08.09.2003) Italian scientists managed to cure a man of an advanced stage of liver cancer. Lightning in your hand (01.09.2003) Lately a new type of non-deadly weapon has been spreading - tazers. Painless injection (27.08.2003) Nobody likes injections, but with certain diseases it is necessary to undergo injections several times a day. Self-cooling mouse (25.08.2003) Only an air-conditioner can offer escape from the heat. Wandering over the water (18.08.2003) The sight of a man who is literally walking the water always sets the folk at wondering. Helikites (11.08.2003) British company has developed a miniature hybrid of an aerostat and a kite. "Clever" paint for military machines (06.08.2003) Proper painting is of great importance for military machines. Aircraft in plasma cloud (04.08.2003) Providing secret air operations is an important problem. Rotator (30.07.2003) Dynamization of air in the tube exit area provides effective ventilation. Drill: without noise and dust (28.07.2003) The principle of operation of a microwave drill is similar to that of a microwave oven. Automobile for all elements (23.07.2003) How many vehicles does a man need to be completely satisfied? Fireproof safe (21.07.2003) A good safe must protect its contents not only against safecrackers but also against water, fire and natural calamities. Balconies (16.07.2003) Why do they leave a gap between the balcony barrier and support columns? Modular segmentation (14.07.2003) One eccentric ate bicycle. In nostalgic frame (07.07.2003) Any picture needs an appropriate frame. Shopping cart (02.07.2003) How to make an easy-to-move and safe shopping cart? How "Mercedes" was born (30.06.2003) This is the example of how a simple systemic transformation caused a breakthrough in car manufacturing. Mobile phone-watch (25.06.2003) Miniaturization is not always good. Moving house in Korea (23.06.2003) Attentive Koreans cannot put neighbors to inconvenience by occupying the elevator for lifting the furniture for too long. Victory over spin (18.06.2003) At the rise of aviation, spin was the most fearful and invincible enemy of pilots. Amphibious tank (16.06.2003) Specific example of proper use of resources. Fight for speed (11.06.2003) While designing an airplane, a lot of contradictions arising between its parameters are usually resolved. Geobukseon (04.06.2003) Armored battleship invented and built in the 16th century. Ace (02.06.2003) Non-standard solutions of hero pilot Alexander Pokryshkin. Donkey (26.05.2003) Sellers resort to different subterfuges in order to make people to buy their goods. Vigilant pavement (19.05.2003) A new kind of pavement is being tested in the capital of the Netherlands. Special police (12.05.2003) Fire safety in old St.Petersburg. Evening dress for Cinderella (05.05.2003) Today, Cinderella does not need a fairy godmother. Just a clever drug (30.04.2003) Drug acts not on the entire organism but on a sick organ only. Curious spider (28.04.2003) Mini-robot for exploration of planets, asteroids and comets. Smoke in your own company (23.04.2003) Smoking method that is not harmful to people around us. Noise and automobile (18.04.2003) How to enjoy engine roar without annoying the folks about us. Biobattery (16.04.2003) A new "perpetual motion"? Training sticks (14.04.2003) Have you already learnt to use sticks for eating? Frying pan (11.04.2003) How to extract a cutlet from a frying-pan? Humane weapon (09.04.2003) Neutralizing without killing and without doing harm whatsoever. Universal dummy (04.04.2003) People are different in height and body-build, but everyone wants clothing to be a good fit. Alarm duck (31.03.2003) You feel sleepy but you should not on any account sleep. What is to be done? Solutions:  118-51  50-1		There are lots of big and small problems around us: they are unimportant and serious, slightly annoying and intolerable. A writing desk that is uncomfortable not psychologically but materially, traffic on the roads, overcrowded cities, too noisy offices, houses with no room for a washing machine, millions of used tires to be utilized. But nevertheless the life gradually becomes more and more comfortable, annoying problems are solved and stop disturbing us. When everything satisfies us, we do not think that every element of our comfort is a big or small problem once solved by somebody. Especially modest and invisible are seemingly obvious solutions. But this means that somebody hit upon an idea that allowed an easy, elegant and beautiful solution of a problem. It is beautiful owing to its simplicity and suddenness. Such solutions are called STRONG.