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Forget touch screen, just breathe into it

Imagine being able to switch songs on your iPod by just blowing on your zipper jacket. Or moving a mouse on a computer screen with your telephone headset microphone. These are just a few examples of a new project called SensaWaft that lets you control a...

Tags: Touch Screen, Contest, Productivity, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Greening air travel?

A contest sponsored by an airliner maker is looking for good ideas to make air travel greener. For each passenger mile chalked up air travel is the worst producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Walking barefoot would be the best, of course. So getting greener would be a...

Tags: Contest, Airbus S.A.S., Web Site Development, Team Management, Internet, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-15

How green is my campus?

A nationwide contest has begun to see which American college or university can become the greenest. And this is not requiring huge solar installations or major building weatherization, though those projects are worthwhile. This contest is based on individual, voluntary action by hundreds of participating students, faculty and...

Tags: Contest, Carbon Footprint, Tom Scaramellino, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

CanSecWest: Caution, community at play

Guest editorial by Sarah Blankinship CanSecWest, in beautiful Vancouver BC, is one of my favorite conferences each year. It’s a cozy little security con that brings together security researchers from all parts of the security ecosystem. Like a PhNeutral or a BlueHat, one never quite knows what...

Tags: Contest, Microsoft Corp., Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-18

RUMped 2.0b27 (Mac)

RUMped is a logging tool for short wave for the MAC under OSX. It is not designed for the daily QSOs. Currently RUMped supports a DX-pedition mode, some major contests and a general contest mode for unsupported contests. Supported contests WWDX ARRL Field Day IARU World Championship Work All Germany...

Tags: Contest, Apple Macintosh, RUMped, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-03-09

$10k hacking contest announced

Israeli software developer Gizmox is challenging hackers to try hacking into the company's Visual WebGui Platform, by offering a $10,000 incentive to those who manage to achieve the objectives of their contest launched at the beginning of the month. What's particularly interesting about the contest is the fact that the...

Tags: Contest, Identity, Gizmox, Hacking, Semantic Web, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-12

The Perils of Showboating

My friend David Spark sent me the link to the above video while we were chatting online this morning, and I facetiously commented it was a little like TechCrunch vs ZDNet. The bizarre contest above, which appears to be between a Capoeira performer and a boxer,...

Tags: Contest, Online Collaboration, Collaboration, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-08-24

65% of online Obama’s supporters and 56% of online McCain’s supporters get political news online

Obama and McCain supporters are equally likely to use the internet, but some 65% of online Obama’s supporters in a fall contest say they get political news and information on the internet, compared with 56% of online McCain’s supporters, according to Pew Internet Project. by NB

Tags: Contest, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-08-13

The 31 Days of the Dragon contest continues at Geek.com

My online writing about PDAs started with Geek.com back in 2001 and I wanted to let you all know you should visit Geek.com right now and fill out their quick survey for a chance to win on the the 31 amazing HP HDX Dragon notebooks. I can't enter since I...

Tags: Contest, Chance, PDAs, Notebooks, Marketing Research, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-21

The 31 Days of the Dragon contest starts today, win an HP laptop valued at over $5,000

While the giveaway I am going to talk about doesn't relate to a mobile device, my fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts are a part of the contest and I think it is such a MAJOR contest that my readers here would enjoy entering for a chance to win. Today is the...

Tags: Contest, Hewlett-Packard Co., Corel Corp., Laptop Computer, RSS, Serial ATA, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Management, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Encouraging more pedal power

So, I guess the first thing I really HAVE to do is address Harry’s bequest in the last post. For the record, I do not believe male extinction is a good thing, even though, strangely enough, I sing with 48 or so other women in my local Sweet Adelines chorus....

Tags: Contest, Bicycle, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-24

AALog contest module 1.0 RC9 (Windows)

A special edition of AALog, optimized for the use in a lot of different contests. It can export file in Cabrillo, .SUM and .ALL files, ADIF. To use this program in CW and digital modes you need to use CwType and TrueTTY.

Tags: Contest, DXsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-09-09

Images: Lunar landing contest

The X Prize Foundation and NASA open a contest with $2.5 million in prizes to build the best lunar lander.

Tags: prize, NASA

Image galleries 2006-05-05

Images: California dreamin' for concept cars

A design contest at the Greater LA Auto Show brings out the best--or is it the weirdest?--in vehicular imagination.

Tags: contest, imagination, concept car, LA Auto Show, California

Image galleries 2006-01-05

Photos: Robot vehicles race for Grand Challenge

A $2 million prize awaits the winner of DARPA's desert contest for unmanned vehicles.

Tags: Robots, DARPA, robot

Image galleries 2005-10-07

Shoot Things Day 23 (Mac)

A generic space shooter, parodying a few well-known retro games. Written for the iDevGames Vectorized contest.

Tags: Contest, Apple Macintosh, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-11-11

Additional Resources

Messing around with the DROID camera

What? No photos from the track? Droid DoesRE: Messing around with the DROID cameraI have a Droid and I did notice the camera quality was off. I turned the flash LED off and that helped a little on the glare issues. Of course some lighting conditions make a flash LED...

Tags: Engineering, DROID camera, Droid Does, camera

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

ATI Radeon HD 5970 is world's fastest graphics card

AMD has just announced today their newest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which they are touting as "the fastest card ever created." Get ready. AMD is proclaiming many firsts with this card. Besides being the fastest, it's the one of the first...

Tags: Card, Video Card, ATI Radeon, Overclocking, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, ATI Radeon HD 5970, HD 5970, Video Cards, Hardware, Components, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Harry Potter Spells for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

In Harry Potter Spells for iPhone you are officially invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Once enrolled, receive the wand destined for you before being sorted into one of the four houses by the sorting hat. Then using specific hand gestures for each of the 14 spells...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, House, Mobile, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Redemtech's green tech giveaway

You could win some green technology for your favorite school or non-profit with Redemtech's "Serious Good" contest. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Green Technology, Redemtech, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-13