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Concept sneakers track your dancing moves with smartphone app
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Does your Lindy Hop need a little polishing before you break it out in public??These concept shoes are equipped with accelerometers that detect every step, spin, and tap, relaying your moves to a smartphone app for instant feedback.
The designer, UK-based?Tom Sykes, feels that dance was a great way for young people to exercise and learn, but existing dance products aimed at their demographic (games on the Wii and Xbox, for instance) aren't quite instructive enough. So he set out to make something new.
The result is the GroundWave Shadow, which combines a smart shoes with a smartphone. Each sneaker has an accelerometer built in, and they both connect wirelessly to an special app loaded with dance moves. As you stomp, slide, and turn, the moves are compared in real time?with what you should be doing.
How you are to keep your phone in view while popping and locking isn't addressed, but other than that, the project (still little more than a concept and prototype) seems realistic enough. Many pairs of shoes already come with sensors, like the Nike+ series, which also syncs with an app.
The futuristic shoes may never actually make it to market, but the idea is sound. You can learn more about them at the designer's site.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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Dearly Beloved ? The Princess Speaks
June 22nd: It?s June, Let?s Have a Wedding?????
The first wedding of import in my life was my sister?s. She had graduated from high school, gone off to college, and returned home to live with us while she was engaged to her boyfriend of several years.
To be perfectly honest, I don?t remember much about the wedding, except that my sister made a beautiful bride. I must not have paid attention, because my long-term memory is generally fairly good. But I do remember how I felt about Betsy getting married and leaving home.
As I have already admitted, my sister and I were not very close as children. That doesn?t mean that I didn?t love and depend on her. But we missed out on making those years a solid basis for a lifetime relationship. That would have to come later.
So I was surprised?to feel vaguely disturbed about her impending marriage. I wasn?t all that comfortable with her husband-to-be, but I had to dig a little further to find the nugget of my real concern. I found that I was worried about the direction everyday life in our house would take without her.
There were tangible things: Betsy did most of the cooking, she shared household chores, and she was a lightning rod?for parental interest. Would we starve? Would I inherit her chores on top of my own and most importantly were Mom and Dad?going to pay too much attention to me? The answer to all of these questions was, ?pretty much?. But aside from these obvious questions, when the wedding day was set?and I knew she would be going to a new home with her husband, I was shocked to find how much I was going to miss her.
Relationships between two people can be?compared to two horses?used to working in tandem to pull a carriage. Walking on, side by side, they pay little attention to each other as they are put?through their paces. Oh sure, if one stumbles the other chuffs, and when one slacks off, the other may nip a shoulder, but for the most part they keep their eyes forward, plodding along. But the day that one of the pair cannot join the team, the remaining horse finds she is alone and pines for her missing partner. Alone, in her stall, the second mare is missing the comfort she derives from standing shoulder to shoulder with her teammate, too. ?
Now, my sister would kill me if I compared her to a horse, but in some ways, as she prepared to leave the barn, eh, the house, I felt like the teammate being left behind.? Becoming an only child was a daunting challenge. Hiding would no longer be an option. All eyes would be on me. Yikes!
A little part of me hoped she would change her mind, a sentiment she would later share. But for the next two years I became a personal testament to the line from the song, ?You Don?t Know What You?ve Got Till? It?s Gone.? When her big day finally came and went, I found myself missing my pesky big sister much more than I anticipated. Somehow the silent bond we had shared could not be bridged long distance.
A wedding can feel like an ending to everyone except the bride and groom. That?s the real reason friends, parents, and siblings cry at weddings. Not that they aren?t happy for the couple, which they are, but more for the changes wrought by this new, stronger allegiance. As sad as I was to see my sister leave I was sadder still when our first attempts to reconnect seemed awkward and strained. But ironically, when I married some years later, we found each other again.
I was reminded of this because I am reading a book, The Big Girl, in which the central character is preparing to leave for college in a distant state. She, too, was leaving without establishing a solid basis for lifetime relationships with her first family. Suddenly I remembered in vivid detail how I felt when my big sister went away. If instead of all those years, months, days and hours that we trudged along shoulder to shoulder, we had invested in face to face bonding, I would not have missed out on twenty years of knowing, understanding, and loving my sister.
But, that is the past for us.? It may not be too late to secure a deep bond with your first family before you leave home. ?The effort will yield valuable interest in the years ahead, I promise. That said, though now Betsy and I now live 1000 miles apart, we are never really farther apart than two tired mares sharing a bag of oats after a long day of lugging our families around.?
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Huawei Ascend P1 XL hands-on
Knowing that Huawei's just announced the Ascend P1 XL for power users alike, we swung by the company's booth at Mobile Asia Expo to see how much bulk the 2,600mAh battery adds to the body. In fact, at 9.9mm thick, the Android 4.0-powered XL is almost as thick as the original P1's thickest point, and in terms of weight the extra 930mAh of battery juice adds another 25g on top of the P1's 110g, which isn't all that noticeable when we fiddled with the new phone. Leaving the thickness and the camera shape aside, the XL is otherwise identical to its sibling device. We'll let you see the external differences in our hands-on photos below.
Huawei Ascend P1 XL hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Scandal-hit Italy turns to patriotism vs England
By ANDREW DAMPF
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 1:33 p.m. ET June 22, 2012
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) -With surprisingly little fan support in stadiums at the European Championship, Italy is taking motivation from a passionate message sent to the squad by the country's president.
His voice cracking with emotion, Giorgio Napolitano wished the team well ahead of Sunday's quarterfinal with England, saying advancing from the group stage had provided a boost to the nation.
Later, Italy captain Gianluigi Buffon opened a routine news conference with a statement to explain how much the message means to the squad, which has been affected by a match-fixing and betting scandal back home.
"In a tough time for our country and for our profession, it gives us a lot of strength," said Buffon, who recently had his banking records examined on suspicion he made large bets. "Spoken by someone of his stature, it doesn't go unobserved. ... We hope we can repay him, and our nation, with the pride and joy that comes with wearing this shirt."
Napolitano attended Italy's opening 1-1 draw with Spain, and hugged Buffon after going down to the changing room after the match. No Italian politicians will attend the match in Kiev to protest the treatment of jailed Ukraine opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
The presence of the 86-year-old Napolitano evoked memories of former Italy President Sandro Pertini cheering the Azzurri on during their title run at the 1982 World Cup, which came in the wake of a similar betting scandal.
"We really created a special feeling of reciprocal respect," Buffon said Friday. "He's our top citizen and also our top fan."
While never known for traveling en masse, Italian supporters were greatly outnumbered at each of the team's group games against Spain, Croatia and Ireland. With Italy hit by hard economic times, only 3,000 fans are expected in Kiev compared to more than 10,000 English supporters.
Special charter planes arranged to fly fans in have been canceled due to low demand.
The week before Italy flew to Poland, reports surfaced over large payments from Buffon to the owner of a tobacco shop in Parma that is also a betting parlor. Buffon has not been placed under investigation and is not accused of any wrongdoing, but the revelations still shook the Azzurri camp.
Also, center back Leonardo Bonucci is under investigation for match-fixing and fullback Domenico Criscito was a late cut from the squad after he, too, was placed under investigation.
Buffon has been Italy's starting goalkeeper for more than a decade and, with 117 appearances, is the Azzurri's most experienced player.
When Italy won the 2006 World Cup amid a similar match-fixing scandal involving his Juventus club, Buffon was one of the standout players - conceding only two goals in seven matches, with one of them an own-goal and the other a penalty from France's Zinedine Zidane in the final.
"We nearly always have (a scandal)," Buffon said. "So we're probably used to living with these difficulties."
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Problems loom as Greece parties seal coalition
ATHENS (Reuters) - The parties that have dominated Greece's discredited politics since 1974 agreed a coalition government on Wednesday intent on renegotiating the terms of an international bailout that is staving off bankruptcy but fuelling social tensions.
The government brings together the conservative New Democracy party and Socialist PASOK in an uneasy alliance of rivals facing an emboldened opposition determined to fight against austerity.
Party leaders said a team would be formed to renegotiate the terms of the 130 billion euro ($164.79 billion) bailout, setting up a showdown with Greece's European partners who say they will adjust but not re-write the document. Europe's debt crisis began in Greece. Two and a half years and four bailouts later - two of them for Greece - there is no end in sight.
"Our efforts have yielded a parliamentary majority to form a durable government which will bring hope and stability," New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras told President Karolos Papoulias, three days after he narrowly won a Sunday election.
PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos warned of a "big battle" in Brussels to craft a new deal that would promote growth and contain unemployment.
"The most critical issue is the formation of the national negotiation team and ensuring that it is successful," he told reporters.
PASOK will back the government in parliament but there was no word on who would serve in the new cabinet. Venizelos said the make-up of the government remained to be fixed and would be discussed by the evening.
The conservative-socialist alliance will also be backed by the small Democratic Left party, whose leader, Fotis Kouvelis, called on the government "to gradually disengage from the terms of the bailout that has bled society."
An official from one of the three parties in the coalition said that they had agreed to name National Bank Chairman Vassilis Rapanos as finance minister.
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New Democracy narrowly beat the radical leftist Syriza bloc, which had vowed to scrap the withering terms of the bailout blamed for driving the country into depression.
New Democracy and PASOK have little history of cooperation, having alternated office from the fall of military rule in 1974 until last year, when the economic crisis brewing under their watch forced them to share power in a short-lived national unity government.
They will face immediate pressure to try to soften the bitterly resented austerity measures demanded of Greece under the bailout deal agreed in March with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, Greece's second since 2010.
At the same time Samaras must contain the rising social tensions created by the crisis and hold together a coalition in the face of Greece's most severe economic test since World War Two.
He inherits a nation facing its fifth year of a recession that has left one in five workers jobless, seen tens of thousands of businesses close and a growing number of homeless on the streets. The capital Athens is scarred by repeated bouts of violent protest.
Democratic Left party members endorsed a motion to back a coalition if a final agreement is reached, but according to party sources refused to place senior politicians in the cabinet, a move which potentially weakens their commitment to the new government.
PASOK, the former ruling party humbled in a May 6 inconclusive election and Sunday's re-run, may also stop short of sending senior leaders of its own to serve in the government.
Greek media reported that Venizelos had clashed angrily with other senior party leaders over his insistence that the Socialists should not put ministers of their own in a cabinet led by the right.
Both centre-left parties could nominate technocrats from outside politics to serve in the cabinet but their reluctance to throw their own weight behind the new government may not augur well for the battles ahead.
"It will be a very weak coalition," said Nikos Konstandaras, managing editor of leading conservative daily Kathimerini, pointing to the decades of enmity between New Democracy and PASOK, the two traditional giants of Greek politics.
SUSPICIOUS
Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, remains suspicious of Samaras, who switched from opposing the bailout when PASOK was in power to cautious endorsement when the Socialist government began to unravel late last year.
"What is needed is more decisiveness in swiftly implementing the measures which have already been agreed," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the weekly Die Zeit in an interview.
However European Union officials have signaled that some adjustments are likely to a program that has slipped behind target in the weeks of political uncertainty following the May election and a deeper than expected recession.
With Greek society deeply split, a repeat of the violent anti-austerity protests seen last year is a constant threat.
Greek electoral law gives New Democracy a 50-seat bonus for coming first, so an alliance with PASOK would have 162 seats, a majority in the 300-seat parliament. Adding the Democratic Left would give it 179 seats.
Fast running out of money, the new government's first mission will be to convince officials from the so-called "troika" of European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund inspectors to sign off on the next installment of aid from the bailout.
Patching up funding gaps, gas supplier DEPA overcame a cash crunch with a 100 million euro bank loan to pay foreign suppliers and avert an imminent energy crisis, a company official said on Wednesday.
"The money was cashed in earlier today. It gives us a breather to pay for July and August deliveries," the official said on condition of anonymity.
($1 = 0.7889 euros)
(Additional reporting by Harry Papachristou, Tatiana Fargou, Karolina Tagaris, Greg Roumeliotis and Dina Kyriakidou; Writing by James Mackenzie and Matt Robinson; Editing by Janet McBride)
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