Calling On Industrial Designers, BARC Wants To Beautify It's Sound Sleep Device & Impart Stealth Technology

What are supposed to be matter-of-fact, anodyne Government-issued documents have, often, hidden within them, gems of hilarity. One has only to have an eye for & appreciation for ironic humour.  One such pearl unearthed, is found in this Department of Atomic energy [DAE] 'Invitation of Quotation'.

The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre [BARC] has called on Industrial Designers to design an enclosure for the Sleep Apnea Device [SAD], that it's Division of Remote Handling & Robotics [DRHR] has developed. The Continuous Positive Air Pressure [CPAP] device help individuals breathe, those who suffer from Sleep Apnea. It claims that the device's performance matches current, commercial offerings, with significant cost savings.

Interested Product Designers would have to package the device, it calls Device to Eliminate Apnea Problem [DEAP], in a manner, that makes it aesthetic in appearance & ergonomic in operation.

In addition, BARC insists that the, "product should not standout from other home use gadgets". It must blend in with the surrounding. Perhaps, shape it like a Microwave Oven. It may seem out of place, sleeping next to it, unless one sleeps in the kitchen. Better still, camouflage it making it look like a Safe, similar to the one above. Nothing screams affluence, more than a sign indicating proclivity to inhale wealth. Options to not standout restricted only by the flight of imagination.

Adding to it, the party chosen must also undertake a Market Research, to understand & demonstrate viability of this device, which BARC has developed. A device without an end-use in mind. In case you missed it, one has till tomorrow, to respond.

Extending lip-service in responding to an all-encompassing National Call. Not just that, any deviations from Responders, would invite prosecutions under provisions of India's Atomic Energy Act & Official Secrets Act. Fly, Sledgehammer, something.

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The DRHR, primarily, develops systems for handling Radioactive materials, such as Fuel Rods feeding India's Nuclear Reactors, as well as systems to transfer the Spent fuel for Reprocessing it & harvesting highly Radioactive Plutonium. For BARC to undertake ventures, in matters that do not have a half-life, is a matter of continual perplexment. Similar efforts had, earlier, resulted in development of Cow Dung Cake-shaped Banana Cake & करेला Juice, that does not taste like one. While half-life there may not have been, the Cake surely had an end-of-life, attained as soon as it reached public gaze.

Godspeed

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