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New Official Vikings site leaves dock

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

A completely redesigned and re-architected Minnesota Vikings site went live this afternoon. The Vikings now join the Bills, Seahawks, Titans, Bengals, Panthers and Chargers on NFL’s club technology platform. Congrats to all who made this possible. We hope the fans love their new Vikings home.  Check it out, and all comments are welcome: http://www.vikings.com

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Online Publishers Association (OPA) New Ad Units go live

Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

The following OPA ad units have started appearing around the web:

The Fixed Panel: 336 wide x 700 tall, remains constant as the user scrolls to the top and bottom of the page
The XXL Box: 468 wide x 648 tall, opens for seven seconds to 936 wide x 648 tall with 1/24x frequency
The Pushdown: 970 wide [...]

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UXbyDesign now available on Amazon’s Kindle

Posted on 02. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

With the user base of Amazon’s Kindle growing larger every day, Amazon has recently allowed customers to subscribe to blogs with their Kindle.

How it works

Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle and updated throughout the day so you can stay current.
It’s risk free—all Kindle Blog subscriptions start with a 14-day free trial. You can cancel [...]

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Microsoft's New Search Engine, "Bing" is Rolling Out

Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Microsoft’s new search engine called “Bing” is being rolled out on June 3.  To be specific, Microsoft is referring to it as a “decision engine” because it’s supposedly built to enable informed decisions. The video below does a great job explaining how it works.
Also, check it out at bing.com

Their press release:
Microsoft’s New Search at Bing.com [...]

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Palm Pre arrives June 6 for $200

Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Sprint Nextel and Palm announced on Tuesday an official release date and pricing for the Palm Pre.
The Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract on Sprint’s Everything Data plan or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plan. In addition to Sprint stores, [...]

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'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the robotic harvesting and pruning suit, sought to make it industry and task-specific in order to generate cost savings [...]

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VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single or multiple users can shrink, zoom and turn the images by simply moving their hands.
It’s [...]

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The iBar: The World's First Multi-touch Bar

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

The world’s first iBar was installed at 24, a high-end Soho nightclub in London, and is already a smashing success! The $147,000 table tops have sensors that detect what you’re drinking, so when you can’t remember how many something-tinis you had, the gizmo will figure it out for you by scanning the shape of your [...]

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Skype for iPhone: An official App

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Months after teasing the community at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday
 Skype’s screens are well organized and use the iPhone’s ability to add filters, for instance, to sort your contacts alphabetically, [...]

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Google Voice converts Voicemail to Text

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Google Voice is incoming – and it could change the way you deal with your phone conversations forever.
 With Google Voice, you get one number to access all your phone numbers, so even if you change your home phone or mobile, you’ll still be contactable. Not only that, the software acts as a messaging centre, storing [...]

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Text-to-Voice Wand: The "Voice Stick"

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition.
Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the OCR function to identify text and convert this information into voice. This advanced technology allows visually [...]

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