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Talks Eric Giler Demos Wireless Electricity

Dru — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:28:07 +0000

Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.

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NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival

Dru — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:47:27 +0000

St. Louis, MO — NewGround, a leading international design and implementation firm serving the financial services industry, announced today they are hosting a short film festival contest to showcase aspiring film directors’ views on “This is NewGround”.

It’s easy to participate. Anyone can submit an entry…employees, vendors, clients, family members, the general public, etc. The top five short films will be selected and viewed before a live audience on May 6, 2009 at Chesterfield’s YMCA Community Theatre. And the best part, contest winners will be awarded a Director’s salary of $1,000 (this salary is for the director and team/cast). Second and third places will be awarded an aspiring Director’s salary of $500 and $250. All contest entries will be available for everyone to view on YouTube.com.

If you think you have what it takes to be the next Martin Scorsese, or you secretly aspire to be like Stephen Spielberg, then let NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival be your big break. Gather your crew, bring out the story-boards, and start filming!

PDF of NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival Submission Guidelines

PDF of NewGround’s 2009 Short Film Festival Submission Form

For more details, please contact Kevin Dulle at kdulle@newground.com or 636-898-8109.

Wireless HDMI Solutions

Phillip — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:01:42 +0000

FlyWire wireless HDMI by Belkin. The unit will soon be available in two separate versions. There will be a $1,500.00 multi-room unit set to hit sometime before the end of the year possibly in mid October. Then in 2009 a lower end model at or near $700.00 called FlyWire R1 which is intended for one unit or single-room installations.

Check it out on the Belkin site for FlyWire

New GraphViz… Data Structure Mapper.

Dru — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:28:26 +0000

Well… a VERY cool new program has the potential to revolutionize how site structures could be mapped… found an interesting paradim – a way to convert folder structures into org like charts… would be interesting to build Java App that will build a .dot file for DataViz… traversing the site and following the links all the while plotting their paths.

folder2dot.dmg – Get the script application that will make the .DOT file for either OmniGraffle or GraphViz 1.13 v16