From Kyle Beckerman’s dreadlocks to Raul Meireles’ mohawk-beard combo, the 2014 World Cup has been a spectacle for innovative ways players have styled their hair and these players are showing off some serious hair-flair! Here are ten of the craziest and most original haircuts at the World Cup.
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Getting in shape is no easy task. Check out the fitness gadgets below that make creating and completing your workout routine a breeze. Improve your running performance and motivation with RockMyRun. The smartphone app and website service helps you perform better during your next workout by matching music to the pace of your run. The app has playlists to accommodate whatever type of music you’re in to, from rock to hip-hop. Using MyBeat technology, it adjusts the tempo of your music to match your pace or encourage you to push a little harder. Wearable activity trackers allow you to keep track of your activity effortlessly. The FitBit One is a clip-on activity tracker that monitors how many steps you take, stairs you climb, distance traveled, calories burned and even your quality of sleep. The tracker even includes a “silent wake alarm” which vibrates at whatever time you set to silently wake you without disturbing your partner and its companion website allows you to add even more information about your health such as diet and weight information. Exercise wherever and whenever with the Tao Wellshell, expected to be available by the end of the year. This portable exercise gadget has a palm-sized pressure sensor and allows users to do more than 50 isometric exercises, while also monitoring heart rate, sleep duration, steps walked and distance traveled. The small device even shows you how to perform each exercise with a 3D model demonstration. To top it all off, WellShell gives users audio or vibrating feedback and keeps track of diet and progress through an accompanying app. After all that hard work, you’ll want a gadget to measure your results. In addition to telling you your weight, the Withings Smart Body Analyzer keeps track of weight changes and monitors your body fat percentage, heart rate, blood pressure and even air quality. The scale automatically syncs with the accompanying phone app and shows users their overall body and health progress. The scale is also able to sync with other apps and devices to help you reach your fitness goal. Before you begin your workout, make sure you are dressed for the part with TheFind’s blog post on top running attire and check out more exercise gadgets with TheFind’s blog post on workout gadgets.
Learn more about RockMyRun at www.rockmyrun.com and shop for all your exercise gear and gadgets at www.thefind.com. Traditionally, online shopping consists of browsing through pages and pages of different items, trying to find the right style, in the right size and for the right price. After waiting the long five to seven business days for your package to arrive, you tear the package open only to find that the hat you ordered makes your head look big. The whole process starts over again, but luckily for all of us, large headed individuals included, times and technology are changing. With sites like TheFind, users can search thousands of items from hundreds of retailers to find the perfect hat, cutting down time going from site to site. It also saves users money because it compiles all the best deals on one website. Similarly, Savor, which just launched on Android tablets this week, has deals and coupons tailored to your personal interests, which makes shopping for your favorite clothes even easier! But what if you could search all in one place, save money, and try on clothes before you bought them? JackThreads, which sells men’s clothing and accessories, is introducing a new type of online shopping. Teaming up with Google+ Hangouts, usually used for video chats, JackThreads has built a feature that gives users the ability to try on hats and sunglasses virtually. Facial recognition software is used to accurately place sunglasses on your eyes and hats on your head without much effort from the user. This advancement opens doors for many other commerce companies who want to enable users to try on clothes beforehand. Independent sites such as True Fit and Fits.me use your body’s measurements to show how certain clothes would fit, before you hand over your credit card. The benefits of this feature could include fewer costs in returned products and a higher customer satisfaction. Thus, profiting both the supplier and consumer. Imagine a future where robots are taking your Starbucks order, bagging your groceries and even serve as your personal chef! Ashutosh Saxena is leading a new research project in his Robot Learning Lab at Cornell University where he teaches robots how to infer actions based on complex, human comments. This new technology will allow individuals who aren’t computer programmers to casually communicate with robots. Instead of giving robots detailed step-by-step instructions the team is teaching them to understand commands in natural language from various speakers, account for missing information and adapt to the environment at hand. With this technology, you can say, “Make me a bowl of ramen” or “Clean up my mess,” and the robot will perform the task. Equipped with 3-D cameras, the robots use Saxena’s computer vision software to scan its environment and identify objects. They are able to associate objects with their capabilities. For example, a pan can be poured into or poured from and stoves can heat things. They can also pick a number of objects to perform the same task. If you ask a robot to “heat water” it will be able to use the stove or microwave depending on what is available. The robots are still not 100 percent accurate, but do perform the right steps about 64 percent of the time even when the commands change and environment is reorganized. “There is still room for improvement,” said the researchers. You can teach a simulated robot to perform a kitchen task at the “Tell me Dave” website, where your input there will become part of a crowdsourced library of instruction for the Cornell robots. “With crowdsourcing at such a scale, robots will learn at a much faster rate,” said Saxena. Saxena and graduate students, Dipendra K. Misra and Jaeyong Sung, will describe their methods at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12-16. Remember the days when cheating consisted of peaking at your neighbors test? Those simple cheating methods look like they will soon be history as modern technology is taking cheating to another level. Students in China were recently caught for attempting to use cheating gadgets that look more like they should be in a James Bond movie than in the hands of high schoolers. In the cheating system, students use sophisticated radio vests to receive help from someone outside the room. The students would take pictures of the tests with a hidden camera installed in a shirt, pen or watch and then use a copper antenna loop (stitched inside their clothing) to send it to someone sitting outside with the receiver. They would then listen for the answer through a hidden earpiece connected to a cheap mobile device. Though cheating is more common in China than in the U.S., it occurs here in the States as well. Just a few months ago, a cheating scandal at an Orange County high school resulted in several students being expelled. With the help of a tutor, the students used a key logger device that allowed them to steal the school’s password information. When the students hacked into the district’s computer system they were able to change grades and access exams.
Aside from these extreme-cheating cases, technology has made cheating easier in other ways also. For instance, students purchase pre-written papers online and search for answers on their smartphones. With all the tech-savvy students of the 21st century, you can bet simply sneaking a peak at your friend’s answers is a thing of the past. Do you ever find yourself misplacing your keys, wallet or purse? Have you ever lost something and wished there was some way to track it? With the combination of Bluetooth technology and mobile applications, you can now track and find your lost items with the touch of a button. Currently, Tile, TrackR, StickNFind, and Lapa are all competing in the chip-tracking market. All of the devices come with an app that allows you to track your lost item up to approximately 100 feet. Once it is out of this range, they use their community of users to help send out alerts for missing objects. All tracking devices also have built in sound, so that you can trigger an alarm that plays aloud from your device. Lastly, all trackers are roughly the size of a quarter, which makes attaching to most items fairly easy. Tile, one of the most popular and highly anticipated trackers( on pre-sale for $19.95) has a hole for hooking the device on key rings or bags as well as an optional adhesive back for sticking on laptops or tablets. With Tile, you are able to track up to 8 devices at a time and you never have to replace the battery. This being said, the battery lasts for only a year and once it dies, you must purchase another Tile. TrackR has an interesting adaptation for duel way location service. What happens when you grab your purse, with a TrackR attached, but leave your phone? Trackr allows you to push a button on the device, which causes your phone to ring, helping you find your phone. TrackR’s battery lasts for a year but it’s easy to replace with a coin cell battery. Also, you can track around 5-10 items with your phone or tablet. Not only does it have all these awesome features, but for a limited time TrackR is giving away $200,000 worth of trackers for free! StickNFind is also a helpful tracker although for $49.99, it is a bit more expensive than the rest. This tracker allows up to 20 devices, while providing users with an easy to read map allowing them to track their missing items. The batteries also last a year and are easy to replace. Not only does StickNFind sound an alarm when alerted, but also flashes to make nighttime searches a lot easier. However, StickNFind uses only adhesive and cannot be easily attached to a key ring. Lapa is on pre-sale for $24.50 or you could get one of each color for three for $59.50. With Lapa, you can share access with friends to help find lost items, or allow them to locate shared items like car keys. The device also alerts you when you leave an item behind, making retrieval quicker and more efficient. Losing things doesn’t always have to be a frantic search, instead invest in a tracker to do the finding for you! Savor, the customized app that personalizes coupons based on your personal interests is now available on for Android Tablet and iPad users and we couldn’t be more excited! Saving users time and money, the app cuts through the clutter of unwanted ads and filters the best deals tailored personally for you in a beautifully designed digital catalog. Perfect for social butterflies, the app can link with a user’s Facebook and learn from their “Social DNA” – their likes and interests - so that all results are relevant to the brands and stores you follow. Share the deals and offers you’ve snagged through Facebook, Twitter or Pintrest so your friends and family won’t miss out either! Check out their blog for more tips and tricks on Summer Savings and trending deals. Tried every diet fad in the book, but can’t seem to lose weight? Oftentimes, the culprit is the calories you consume through beverages, because their exact caloric value is the most difficult to measure. Justin Lee, CEO and co-founder of Vessyl has spent the past seven years researching and developing a smart drinking cup that recognizes any beverage that you pour into it as well as how many calories are in the drink. The 13-ounce cup uses sensory technology that can analyze a beverages volume, nutritional content, and type – down to the brand and flavor. Once the beverage is poured into the cup and lifted up, the exterior will display the name of the drink and relevant nutritional information. It then syncs that information to your smartphone where your drinking habits will be tracked. Vessyls’ technology is impressive in its ability to accurately recognize all kinds of beverages. Forget the Pepsi challenge – Vessyl knows the difference between Coke and Pepsi, and can even tell the difference between strong and weak coffee. Some of the nutritional information it measures includes sugar, protein, calories, fat and caffeine. The high-tech cup will also keep track of how much liquid you consume throughout the day, and has the ability to tell you how hydrated you are at any given time. According to Lee, creating a smart cup made sense when considering the various ways we keep track of our daily movement, but not what we’re eating. "Now that these activity trackers are commonplace, we are in this next phase of what we can track to really make an impact on our physical health," Lee told Mashable. "What we consume in our food and our beverages is as important if not more important than tracking the calories we're burning through exercise." Lee plans to ship Vessyl in early 2015 at a cost of $199.99 or can preorder the product for $99. Ariel SantosAriel is one of our talented Account Managers and is coming up on her one-year anniversary with 43PR this July! Currently, she manages and works with clients including PrivacyStar and Credit Sesame. In this interview, Ariel shares the highlights of her career and explains what invention is missing from today’s tech world. What do you like most about working at 43? I love working at 43 because of the warm and fun-loving atmosphere that we cultivate as a company. Everybody works very hard for their clients and our success as an agency really shines through everyone’s love of our company and each other. The employees here are truly phenomenal people with fantastic PR skills. Additionally, it’s a group of people who love to laugh and thoroughly enjoy a cold beer on a warm Santa Cruz day, and you just can’t beat that. What is favorite memory so far at 43? I’ve had a lot of great experiences with the 43 team in my time here – everything from CES in Las Vegas to sharing the joy that comes with securing a briefing with top tier media for a client. Although it’s not a memory that has officially been made yet, I have a feeling I’m going to love watching the World Cup with everyone here. We’re lucky enough to have an office full of soccer players and soccer fans so we’ll be enjoying the next month of games and I have a feeling we’ll make some great, new memories. What was one of the most memorable highlights of your career? I recently had to opportunity to go to CES and it was amazing to be a part of an event that really sets the tone for technology around the globe. The innovations showcased at CES have and will influence the lives of everyone and it’s exciting to be a part of an industry that is shaping the future and really setting the tone for our every day lives. It’s incredible to think about how much we are affected every day by the technology around us and it’s exciting to think about what’s to come. What do you enjoy most about working in PR? I enjoy working in PR because it’s an ever-changing environment that promises a fast-paced and challenging career. No day is the same when you work in PR and I appreciate the unpredictability of the profession. I’d say it’s the most “adventurous” office job you can have! Father’s Day is fast approaching and for those of you that still haven’t figured out what your doing for Dad, its time to get to work. Dad does a lot for you, so don’t slack on his special day. TheFind blog has celebration and gift ideas for whatever type of dad you have to help you give Pops the Father’s Day he deserves. Have a techy dad? Impress him with a gadget he doesn’t have yet. TheFind’s Gadget Father’s Day gift guide includes gadgets to help him work out, care for the yard, rock out to his favorite tunes or watch his favorite shows. If he’s not so tech-savvy, check out TheFind’s general Father’s Day gift guide, with items such as a cookbook, high-end shaver, beer chiller and even high-quality underwear. If you have an active dad, consider a RockMyRun e-GiftCard for 1 year of Premium Membership. RockMyRun is a smartphone app and website service that helps you perform better during your next workout by matching music to the pace of your run. Though gifts are thoughtful, they aren’t the only way to show Dad you care. Check out TheFind’s blog post on Father’s Day celebration ideas for ways to spend the day with Dad. With ideas for the outdoorsy dad, food-lover or beer connoisseur, these activities will most definitely make his day. Check out more helpful tips and ideas from TheFind Blog and shop for all your Father’s Day gifts at www.thefind.com/. Learn more about RockMyRun at rockmyrun.com and purchase your eGiftCard here. |
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