Airnoggin Named One of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2022
NEW YORK - November 15, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Airnoggin, the revolutionary new safety helmet that uses a proprietary soft material instead of a hard shell, has received a coveted special mention by TIME as one of the Best Inventions of 2022. The accolade is made public live today on Time.com. Airnoggin's patented and innovative new soft material is proven to protect just as well as hard helmets and has been awarded a 5-star rating by Virginia Tech Helmet Lab. This innovative system is now available for the first time in the soft Airnoggin helmet. Available exclusively on www.airnoggin.com.
Airnoggin's patented helmet technology took years of testing and research to perfect and is the only product on the market like it. To the surprise of professional testers, the soft safety helmet exceeded every U.S. CPSC and European EN1078 safety standard for bicycles, skateboards, and e-bikes/scooters.
The proprietary technology in the Airnoggin helmet was discovered by entrepreneur Jeffrey Klein, who realized that the rise of the micro-mobility industry in the U.S. was accompanied by a growing number of accidents and cases of head trauma. Carrying a hard-shell helmet wherever you go from work to evening hours just isn't compatible with many people's lifestyle. What if a helmet could be soft and could easily fold up and fit into your bag? This idea led to the development of a revolutionary material that is set to transform the self-safety market. Airnoggin is the first protective gear product to use this special soft material. The Airnoggin is inflatable and comes with its own carrying case. When inflated, the helmet looks like a trend-forward hard shell. The company is developing new soft-fabric versions that offer the same level of safety with street wear appeal.
Airnoggin exists to make self-safety second nature. The company envisions a world where everyone can move with confidence, and safety is as easy as riding a bike.
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Orlando Magic Announces Partnership With Retro Game Entertainment Leader Arcade1Up
ORLANDO, Fla. - November 15, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
The Orlando Magic today announced a multiyear partnership with Arcade1Up, the leader in retro home arcade machines. As part of the partnership, Arcade1Up's arcade games will be featured throughout the Magic's home arena, the Amway Center. The partnership expands Arcade1Up's footprint in its home state of Florida and the interactive arcade experience is its first in an NBA arena.
"The Magic are thrilled to team up with Arcade1Up and further enhance the fans' game experience both on and off the court," said Magic Senior Vice President of Global Partnerships J.T. McWalters. "Coming to Magic games inside the award-winning Amway Center has always been about creating legendary experiences, and this partnership with Arcade1Up will certainly help amplify that."
The partnership will also feature brand integrations, including in-arena signage during all Magic home games, and co-branded digital and social content. In addition, Arcade1Up and the Magic will offer fans a variety of promotions throughout the season.
"We are thrilled to partner with the Magic to create another one-of-a kind arena experience," said Arcade1Up CEO, Scott Bachrach. "Amway Center is known for premium sports and entertainment events, and we want to enhance those moments by giving fans and concertgoers the opportunity to enjoy the ultimate retro arcade experience."
Arcade1Up's NBA JAM: Shaq Edition will be part of the retro arcade experience in the Amway Center and will be available at the Orlando Magic team shop.
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American Offshore Energy Has a New Way to Float Wind Turbines
The American Wind Turbine
A floating wind turbine, reaching into the wind with a lightweight structure, based on America's Cup sailing tech, keeping the heavier bearings and generator near sea level, American Offshore Energy side steps logistical problems with floating HAWT.
American Offshore Energy (AOE) announces novel patents in the floating wind turbine industry. The AOE VAWT design, the "American Turbine", is the first wind turbine that has no center shaft, the bearings and electrical generation move to the perimeter where there are high surface speeds even at low RPMs, eliminating the need for rolling bearings, gearboxes and oil. Maybe more importantly, the team at AOE used clever design principles to completely avoid moment forces being transmitted to the floating base; this means the floats may be made from fiberglass, saving thousands of tons of steel. Then, being sailboat racers themselves, they took a page from Americas Cup Sailboat Racing to build a lightweight but powerful aerodynamic rotor that may be "trimmed" to conditions.
The big idea is that to make a floating wind turbine, it makes more sense to reach up into the wind with a lightweight structure, like a cross between sailboat masts and bicycle wheels, keeping the heavier bearings and generator near sea level. Turbines that have been successful on land are being put on floating structures only because they are the dominant wind turbine technology, not because someone thought rationally about how best to make a floating wind turbine. This creates a huge opportunity. The key technologies enabling the opportunity are water-based hydrostatic perimeter support bearings, direct drive HVDC generation at the perimeter and tension and compression design principles.
The elegance of the AOE design leads to its sustainability advantages. Because of the fluid film bearing technology, axial and radial loads are separated; this means that the axial bearings, carrying the weight of the rotating assembly, may push down or pull up on a float, but cannot introduce a moment load. Because the floats are loaded in only tension or compression, they may be made from fiberglass at a tenth of the weight per MW of the oil derrick-like floats required for HAWT designs. HAWT have the loads and masses at the top of a long pole, they are cantilevered, so a 50-ton force at the top of a 100-meter tower puts more than 500 tons of force into a floating base that is holding the bottom 10 meters. This is why they require so much steel. The AOE design avoids this.
The AOE design has no need for forgings, castings, rolling element bearings, gearboxes, conventional generators, or AC/DC conversions at sea. Being so much lighter, they may be manufactured and launched from sites not appropriate for launching floating HAWTs, and so are not competitive in regard to coastal real estate either. The fact that they may be towed and serviced by existing Jones Act-compliant vessels sidesteps another logistical supply chain problem. The AOE turbine is constructed of fabricated steel and fiberglass structures, both active industries here in the USA that could easily scale up. Drew Devitt, CTO of AOE notes, "Being completely American-made, we will avoid having to wait to buy European-made nacelles; that is another reason we may be able to deploy faster and less expensively." He goes on: "We are not competing with HAWT; we really offer a completely different 'Iron in the Fire' with regard to deploying utility-scale floating wind turbines."
What distinguishes AOE from other VAWT offerings? Devitt says, "It goes back to our 'No Shaft' design. All the other VAWT offerings employ a center shaft. The center shaft VAWT have an advantage over HAWTs in regard to floating, by having the mass of the bearings, gearbox and generator at or below sea level. But they still are on the wrong end of 10 to 1 leverage, and in their case, this force is transmitted through rolling element bearings. And still, they need a gearbox, as generating power at 10rpm would require a huge generator. The cost, the shafted VAWTs will pay, that shafted HAWT guys do not have, will be trying to keep saltwater out of oil-lubricated turbine bearings, gearbox and generator that is at or below sea level."
In the AOE design, there are no rolling bearings or gearboxes and so no oil, the turbines may be sunk in the face of a hurricane, allowing the turbines to ride out the storm just below the ocean surface. This dramatically reduces risk, and so the cost for financing and insurance. The turbines can be raised after the storm by remotely releasing compressed air cylinders in the fiberglass floats. General maintenance at sea is facilitated as the bearings and generator components are at deck level for service boats and because the turbines are arranged in a mooring field, they may be unplugged and towed back to port in a day by existing Jones Act-compliant tugs for maintenance if necessary. The large surface area of the vertical wings is obvious to birds and gives strong horizontal radar reflection for maritime navigation, with no vertical reflection for aero navigation.
We ask Devitt, out of all the advantages, what do you think is the most significant? "I think speed to deployment is the key. Steel and fiberglass fabrication have relatively low capital requirements. Combine that with low real estate costs, near the proposed wind farms, and you have a recipe for franchising manufacturing. Once the facility and tooling to make the turbines have been developed, they can be duplicated, and other manufacturing sites could pop up quickly near deployment sites. This would be a great way to help us meet our renewable energy targets and put Americans to work quickly."
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vCom Solutions vManager 15 Expands Access to Information & Improves User Experience
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This key vManager snapshot report lets users assess the depth and breadth of their organization's IT spend at-a-glance.
vCom Solutions, a leader in delivering software and services for managing the lifecycle of IT spend from procure to pay, today announced the latest release of the company's award-winning vManager platform. Major enhancements within vManager 15 focus on the expansion of data sets to help drive more informed client purchasing decisions, an improved User Experience (UX) enabling powerful at-a-glance views of an organization's entire IT spend, and enhanced performance throughout the platform.
"In this 15th version of our award-winning platform, we are kicking things into high gear," said Sameer Hilal, vCom's Chief Operating Officer. "We are doubling down on our promise to provide actionable data, and incorporating feedback we have received from our customers to help them make better business decisions while saving them time with improved performance and UX."
Key capabilities and enhancement within vManager 15 include:
- Marketplace Enhanced Shopping Experience - vCom was the first to offer customers a robust Marketplace within a management platform to compare and purchase IT commodities like Internet services, POTS, mobile phones, and more. Now, in addition to comparing providers based on pricing, bandwidth, and terms, customers shopping for Network services can see detailed information about the building where they need service, along with available providers and technologies already in the building, route maps, and near-net versus on-net connections. Importantly, they can also view service provider implementation intervals to help account for tight implementation timelines.
"Marketplaces are the choice medium to shop for and buy IT commodities. Price and term may not be the only deciding factors for an IT manager who is shopping for commodity IT services," says Hilal. "Similar to what we already do regarding the availability of mobile devices, we've enhanced our already-powerful Marketplace to provide customers with additional service dimensions about Network services, arming them with the intelligence they need to select the right solution for their business."
- Improved UX of Program Health Report - UX improvements on this key vManager snapshot report lets users assess the depth and breadth of their organization's IT spend, their utilization of vCom's products and services, and how vCom is helping them benefit from the values of time, information, and cost savings in a way that is quick and easy. Visualizing details by lifecycle phase, the dashboard supports trend tracking at-a-glance, spotting opportunities for additional optimization, and driving deeper strategic conversations around next steps within the management of an organization's IT lifecycle.
- Single Sign On (SSO) - Organizations can enhance their utilization of vManager in conjunction with other portals and SaaS applications by enabling Single Sign On (SSO). Once configured, enterprise users securely leverage a single set of credentials managed by their IT department and are authenticated into vManager just as they would gain access to other corporate apps, websites, and data established by IT, making it that much easier for them to quickly manage their IT environment.
- Performance Enhancements - Several "under the hood" improvements have been made to help improve performance throughout the platform, enhance queries and data rendering, making it easier for customers to access their inventory or process their invoice in vManager.
- Managed Pay Improvements - vManager 15 features additional enhancements to Managed Pay, vCom's fastest-growing managed service and most popular add-on to Invoice Management. The Managed Pay engine has been retooled to allow future scale capabilities, including providing customers the ability to better manage the frequency, timing, amounts, and accounts to include in fund requests through the platform. "With the adoption of a distributed workforce model, a single invoice payment system that centralizes and simplifies invoice management becomes a must-have for all businesses," says Hilal.
To support the launch of vManager 15 and provide clients with the expertise needed to maximize their use of vManager, vCom's Customer Success Team is holding a week-long vManager Certification course open to all users Dec. 5-8. More information and registration is available here. Additional materials on vManager 15 can be found on the vCom website.
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CRO Heather Tenuto Named to the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2022 List
Zift Solutions, a leading provider of Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and Through-Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA) software, today shared Chief Revenue Officer Heather Tenuto's inclusion in The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2022 list. This award is given out by The Software Report and recognizes the most accomplished women in the software-as-a-service industry.
The women on this year's list lead from a variety of positions across the C-suite and beyond, from CEO to CISO and CHRO, to SVP and Director of Software Engineering. What they have in common is a demonstrated track record of success in tackling the greatest challenges the industry has to offer.
"It's a true honor to be included on this list along with so many influential women in the SaaS space," said Heather Tenuto, Chief Revenue Officer and recipient of The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2022 award. "I look forward to continuing to participate in this growing industry and nurturing the next generation of winners into 2023 and beyond."
The software-as-a-service market continues to expand, with some expecting the global SaaS market to grow at a CAGR of 25.9% from $143.8 billion last year to a staggering $720.4 billion in 2028. More companies seeking to digitize more parts of their operations has led to stiffer competition between SaaS providers.
The accomplished women on this year's list have been instrumental in leading their companies to innovation and success in everything from document generation to enterprise resource planning, education administration, cybersecurity, and other software categories. Please join us in celebrating The Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2022.
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About Zift Solutions
Founded in 2006, Zift Solutions is the only Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and Through-Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA) tool built as one to work as one. The company's ZiftONE platform manages the flow from onboarding to enablement, lead generation to marketing, all the way through sales. Backed by the most experienced team in the industry, Zift was named the only leader in both Channel Marketing Automation and Partner Relationship Management by Forrester Research and a market leader in Partner Management Software and Through-Channel Marketing Software by G2. For more information, visit www.ziftsolutions.com.
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