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Color-shifting Medallions, and The Man Without a Butt

April 24, 2013 in collaboration, Community, creativity, downtown, maker, Tucson, Xerocraft by Xerocraft

Tucson’s Xerocraft is having a fundraiser, and they’re having fun raising the funds.

Their Indiegogo site is offering some mighty unusual gifts in exchange for donations:

- a medallion with special optical properties, and…
- a statue of a guy whose butt has dropped off.

In direct sunlight, the 4 inch diameter medallions look like old doubloons hauled up from a sunken pirate ship. The plaster-like castings have been faux-painted to resemble blackened, oxidized metal—each emblazoned with Xerocraft’s x-shaped logo, and the Latin inscription, Facite Vestra Artificium (“Get your craft on”).

But if you look at the medallions under other types of lighting—halogen reflectors, for example—colorful apparitions begin shimmering, gleaming, and sparkling across their unexpectedly shiny surfaces.



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by Chad Lehrman

Interview: Dan Jaffe, Founder of LawLytics

January 6, 2013 in Featured, Local Companies, Startups, Technology, Tucson by Chad Lehrman

After graduating from law school at the University of Arizona, Dan Jaffe left Tucson, grew two successful law firms, and then started an online legal directory that was acquired in under two years. Now back in Tucson, Dan’s new venture, LawLytics, is poised to change the way attorneys use the web and manage their online presence.

Startup Tucson: What brought you from San Francisco back to Tucson?

Dan Jaffe: I like everything about Tucson. It’s a friendly, relaxed environment. It’s a great place to live and work, and in my opinion the ideal place to grow a business built on a strong foundation. I spent time hanging around the Silicon Valley ecosystem after my first startup was acquired. The Tucson ethos and business climate is supportive of our vision of efficiency. Also, California just passed Prop 30 which is a huge blow to innovation and entrepreneurship in that state.



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Gangplank Tucson

by Gangplank Tucson

New Year Resolutions – Tucson: What do you wish was different?

December 19, 2012 in 2013, catalyst, change, Community, Gangplank Tucson, Tucson by Gangplank Tucson

tumblr llpckg5BAT1qhaldyo1 500 150x150 New Year Resolutions Tucson: What do you wish was different?It’s a little early to be making resolutions, but we want to be ready!   At Gangplank we’re all about enabling positive change in the community, but we also want to stay focused since there are so many different ways that we can accomplish this in 2013.

This is where you come in!   We’d like to hear what ways you wish Tucson was different in this coming year?   How can we help facilitate that?  Please share your thoughts here so together we can make Tucson a better place!

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Interview: Dan Jaffe, Founder of LawLytics

December 19, 2012 in Local Companies, Startups, Technology, Tucson by Startup Tucson

After graduating from law school at the University of Arizona, Dan Jaffe left Tucson, grew two successful law firms, and then started an online legal directory that was acquired in under two years. Now back in Tucson, Dan’s new venture, LawLytics, is poised to change the way attorneys use the web and manage their online presence.

Startup Tucson: What brought you from San Francisco back to Tucson?

Dan Jaffe: I like everything about Tucson. It’s a friendly, relaxed environment. It’s a great place to live and work, and in my opinion the ideal place to grow a business built on a strong foundation. I spent time hanging around the Silicon Valley ecosystem after my first startup was acquired. The Tucson ethos and business climate is supportive of our vision of efficiency. Also, California just passed Prop 30 which is a huge blow to innovation and entrepreneurship in that state.



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by Bob Hagen

Medical Research & Technology Company to Relocate to Tucson

August 16, 2012 in Articles, Bioindustry, News, News Releases, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Biotech firm Accelr8 to move HQ to Tucson

Inside Tucson Business

August 16, 2012

By Patrick McNamara

Article Summary: Accelr8 Technology Corporation plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Denver to Tucson. The medical diagnosis and instrumentation firm intends to have its new facility in Tucson up and running early next year. It will be located at 3950 S Country Club Rd near the University of Arizona Medical Center – South Campus.

For more details, visit the full ITB article at the link below:

http://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/biotech-firm-accelr-to-move-hq-to-tucson/article_1227cbf4-e7c2-11e1-9e83-0019bb2963f4.html

 

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by Bob Hagen

Local “Hackathon” Served as Preliminary Event to Upcoming Startup Weekend 2012 in Tucson

August 14, 2012 in Articles, Hackathon, Hackathon, IT, Startup Tucson, Startup Weekend 2012, Technology, Technology Business Development, Tucson, Tucson Tech by Bob Hagen

Tucson tech: Hacking apps in 24 hours

August 14, 2012

Author: David Wichner Arizona Daily Star

Over the weekend, about 35 programmers and assorted computer nerds got together in Tucson to compete for bragging rights and prizes in the Old Pueblo’s first “hackathon.”

The object of the 24-hour event at the Spoke6 co-working space was to complete a new mobile , game or other software project from start to finish.

But there was more to the exercise than just throwing together some computer code for grins.



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by Bob Hagen

UA-developed Virtual Agent Being Used to Screen Border Crossers at Nogales

August 13, 2012 in Articles, IT, News, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech, U of A by Bob Hagen

Avatar Virtual Agent

Avatar interviewing Nogales border crossers

Tech avatar being used to screen applicants for streamlined entry

AUGUST 12, 2012 12:00 AM  •  JOSEPH TREVIÑO ARIZONA DAILY STAR

NOGALES, Sonora – With his black tie, dark hair and light blue eyes, a dapper new agent is one of U.S. Customs’ latest tools in screening border crossers

But this handsome, if ethnically ambiguous fellow, who started work Tuesday at the Dennis DeConcini Port in Nogales, is less – and more – than human. He is a virtual agent, an android and a kiosk all rolled into one.

Created by scientists and researchers from the University of Arizona, the artificial agent is called an AVATAR (short for Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time). His job is to screen border crossers without prejudice or bias while freeing human agents to address more pressing matters, said Aaron Elkins, one of the scientists who developed the AVATAR.



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by Bob Hagen

UA-operated HiRISE Camera Successfully Captures Picture of Curiosity Rover Landing on Mars

August 7, 2012 in Aerospace, Articles, News, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech, U of A by Bob Hagen

Curiosity Rover Parachuting to Mars

UA-run HiRISE camera snaps parachuting rover of Mars rover as it lands

Source: Arizona Daily Star

Date/Time: August 7, 2012

Author: TOM BEAL

HiRISE has done it again.

The UA Lunar and Planetary Lab team that operates the high-resolution camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a clear, stunning image of the Mars rover Curiosity descending by parachute toward the surface of Mars on Sunday night.

The single image had been planned for months, and after Curiosity, formally known as the Mars Science Laboratory, landed at 10:31 p.m. Sunday, the Tucson-based team waited for it.

About 1:30 a.m. Monday it received it. It clearly showed the Curiosity capsule suspended from its giant parachute, plunging toward the Martian surface.

It was the second image of a Martian landing caught by the HiRISE team, led by Alfred McEwen. HiRISE had also captured the descent of the Phoenix Mars Lander in May 2008.

The photo was planned months in advance, said McEwen of the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Lab.

The orbiter and the HiRISE camera had to be carefully positioned at the right place at the right time. The time delay in transmissions left no room for last-minute changes.



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Voice Analysis Technology Developed by UA Being Used at Arizona-Mexico Border to Facilitate Crossings

August 7, 2012 in Articles, IT, Technology, Tucson, Tucson Tech, U of A, UA MIS by Bob Hagen

Scientific American

Avatar Officer Installed at Arizona-Mexico Border Station

A new kiosk is expected to streamline applications for frequent traveler benefits, freeing up human officers to catch drug smugglers

By Larry Greenemeier  | Monday, August 6, 2012

AVATAR AGENT: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is installing an updated kiosk in Nogales, Ariz., to test its ability to help enroll applicants in its Trusted Traveler program at the Mexican border. Unlike its predecessor, the new Nogales kiosk speaks and understands both Spanish and English (rather just English) and wears a tie rather than a black T-shirt.

People crossing the Mexican border into Nogales, Ariz., this week will have a chance to meet U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s newest officer—a polite yet no-nonsense bilingual gatekeeper with a thick shock of black hair and a striped gray tie. He may not have a name or join his fellow officers for coffee or lunch breaks, but his presence will likely be welcomed both by them and the commuters who regularly pass through this southern Arizona outpost on their way to and from Mexico.



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by Dr. Patrick Marcus

JLAB Audio, Former INC 5000 Leaves Tucson

August 7, 2012 in Local Companies, News, Technology, Technology Business Development, Tucson, Tucson Tech, Uncategorized by Dr. Patrick Marcus

JLab moves from Tucson to Oceanside to hire talented workers, INC 5000 Article

JLab LLC, a maker of headphones and earbuds, recently moved from digs in Tucson, Ariz., to offices in Oceanside to tap the active lifestyle of San Diego County and a larger base of workers.

“As we grew, and we wanted to hire a deeper talent pool, San Diego came to everyone’s mind,” said Josh Rosenfield, 35, the JLab founder and CEO. “It wasn’t hard to convince our board.”

Rosenfield said that his seven-year-old company was purchased in January by Ada, Okla.-based Mach Speed Holdings LLC, a private equity-owned firm that makes digital media players.

Dallas-based Transition Capital Partners, which has a portfolio of more than 40 companies under its belt, this week purchased a third company that will complement JLab and Mach Speed’s market, according to Rosenfield. The third company, Bentonville, Ark.-based Bear River, as well as Mach Speed and JLab, are expected to generate a combined annual revenue of $100 million, he said.



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