(by Alberto Minazzi).
A wide variety of innovations
are being showcased at the 60 stands of the International
Inventors Exhibition opening Friday at the Pala Expo in Venice.
The groundbreaking inventions on display until Sunday
include the recreation of a virtual fire evacuation, a
'homeboard' - a skateboard built to go downhill - and an
anti-theft device for bikes that blocks pedals and can be used
on any bicycle.
The exhibition is also showcasing chairs that can be easily
assembled and disassembled, positioning each of the chair's 60
components in a different manner, as well as a home that can be
built with bricks similar to those of Lego and Meccano
constructions.
Flavio Lanese of Aosta, the man behind the innovative
method enabling anyone to build a wall, said he came up with the
idea in New York when he saw "a skyscraper being 'dismantled' to
build a bigger one, reusing in another destination the old
building's materials without destroying them".
Lanese said the bricks are assembled through a modular
mechanism, with a steel grid that makes the walls solid and
anti-seismic and an internal canalization for wires and tubes.
He added that anyone can do the construction work and no
permits are required, because it is not a building intervention
due to its characteristics.
The ongoing exhibition also devotes special attention to
the disabled.
There is a sound bracelet for blind children and a paddle
boat that doubles up as a wheelchair called Silvoga.
Its inventor Silvio Taddei, a native of the northern
Trentino Alto Adige region who lives in Peschiera, said the
system allows people to get into the water without getting wet
through a mechanism that uses retractile oars.
"I was specialized in garage doors, then two years ago I had
this idea, which I progressively improved through tests on Lake
Garda, and now I can be on the water in winter or swim during
the summer since the tilting structure helps to easily get back
on board," said Taddei.
After obtaining an international patent, Taddei said he is
now looking for investors to turn his prototype into a product.
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