Mesa Solutions’ line of commercial and industrial mobile natural gas generators

We at GPS are thrilled to partner with Mesa Solutions.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (PRWEB)
October 19, 2021

Global Power Supply, LLC. (GPS) – https://www.globalpwr.com, a privately held leader in integrated power solutions, is pleased to announce it has expanded its mobile natural gas power generator product offering through a U.S. distribution partnership with Mesa Solutions.

In a continued effort to venture further into new and emerging markets, GPS is excited to be a preferred U.S. distributor for Mesa Solutions’ line of commercial and industrial mobile natural gas generators. This is a new and exciting addition to GPS’s network of high-quality backup and prime power system manufacturers. As commercial and industrial markets continue to adopt natural gas power generation as an alternative to diesel, this partnership gives GPS a proven, high-quality product to offer their customers. The partnership provides Mesa Solutions the opportunity to sell into GPS’s fast-growing customer base, with the support of GPS’s sales, solutions, and project management teams having 75 years of combined experience in the backup power industry.

“We at GPS are thrilled to partner with Mesa Solutions. GPS is currently undertaking a significant broadening of our power systems products and technical services offering and Mesa’s natural gas fueled generator products fits perfectly with our strategic plans and more importantly, our customer’s desire to lower their carbon footprint. Natural gas power generators provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional diesel generator units and MESA’s products are some of the best available.” said Global Power Supply CEO, Trent Robbins.

“Companies across the U.S. are taking charge of their energy, looking to alternatives outside the grid to provide standby, prime, and backup power. Today, we’re pleased to collaborate with Global Power Supply to help get responsible, reliable power into the hands of these organizations across the U.S. The partnership provides a broader range of distribution outside the oil and gas industry to reach a mass audience of commercial and industrial businesses and have a greater impact on creating a resilient, greener infrastructure for our customers and communities.” said Mesa Solutions Vice President, Colby Friday.

Mesa Solutions is a leading power solutions company specializing in the manufacturing, sales, leasing, and operations of natural gas and liquid propane-powered mobile and stationary generators sets and microgrids. Mesa’s best-in-class power solutions enable customers to reduce their energy costs and capital expenditures as well as increase reliability and operational up-time, all while lowering emissions and decreasing their overall carbon footprint.

GPS is a leading U.S. provider of high-quality backup and prime power systems for sale or rent including new and refurbished diesel and natural gas generators, UPS systems, and electrical switchgear. GPS designs custom solutions to meet your facilities’ critical infrastructure power system needs and offers turnkey installations, decommissioning of existing equipment, asset recovery, and complete project management services throughout North America. GPS is proud to offer unmatched technical assistance and support services to its customers.

For more information or to explore backup or prime solutions for your business, visit the Global Power Supply website at https://www.globalpwr.com/

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Capture, Transform, Stream

Holograms are no longer the stuff of science fiction.

VENICE, Calif. (PRWEB)
October 14, 2021

8i, the market leader in the capture, transformation, and streaming of holograms (aka volumetric video or 3D video), today announced the launch of Real-time Holograms. 8i’s technology represents a fundamental advancement in volumetric video that enables the future of communication in 3D, where real people — not avatars — are broadcast live into immersive digital environments within seconds. View a short video of how real-time holograms work here.

Historically, rendering volumetric video could take days, even weeks, to process a worthy asset. However, with 8i’s advancement in machine learning and computer vision, this once arduous process can now be completed within milliseconds, enabling people to be broadcast live in 3D. Real-time holograms unlock a new way of content consumption, enabling participants to literally choose their viewpoint, zoom in and out, or even walk around the performer, speaker, or presenter depending on which way they choose to interact — be it through browser, augmented reality, or virtual reality. The result is a profound shift for dozens of use cases for immersive experiences, including presentations and events, sports and entertainment, education and training, e-commerce and more.

“Holograms are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Real-time holograms empower an entirely new range of experiences for consumers that will foster deeper communication and connection, put you in the front row of a concert or sporting event, eliminate barriers of entry and democratize open access to education, training, information and resources — and ultimately level the playing field between the haves and have nots,” said Hayes Mackaman, CEO of 8i. “We are creating and delivering interactive content directly to the consumer. Consumers will be able to experience, interact with and replay content in a totally new, immersive way from any angle or perspective, ushering in a new era in the way society communicates, learns, works and plays. Across all industries, there are multiple opportunities and use cases for real-time holograms to enhance our daily lives.”

How Real-time Holograms Work.

Producing real-time holograms involves all of the following transpiring — within milliseconds:

• Recording volumetric video from an array of computer vision cameras;
• Fusing the footage from multiple camera angles in real-time into a single 3D asset;
• Leveraging proprietary machine learning algorithms to compress the 3D footage into a streamable size, and lastly,
• Distributing it to any device — either as a WebAR experience on a smartphone or tablet powered by 8th Wall, or as a WebXR experience through a VR headset or any web browser.

The use cases and benefits of real-time holograms are expansive, and include: immersive keynotes and presentations, live 3D concerts and performances, live sports and entertainment events in 3D, immersive training and education experiences, personal fitness, live immersive shopping and beyond. Viewers can see a performer broadcast live inside of an immersive VR scene while wearing a head mounted display (HMD), watch it through any web browser from any angle, or experience the performer in their physical space through augmented reality on their smartphone or tablet.

The announcement of real-time holograms took place at an exclusive launch event earlier today — The World’s First Livestreamed Hologram Interview — where 8i CEO Hayes Mackaman and 8th Wall CEO, Erik Murphy-Chutorian were interviewed by AR/VR industry influencer, Catherine Henry, in real-time volumetric 3D video and broadcast live in front of a Zoom audience of senior executives across multiple industries, including technology, media and entertainment, press and AR/VR influencers.

Contact hi@8i.com to schedule a demo or visit https://www.8i.com to learn more.

About 8i

Founded in 2014, 8i is an industry leading hologram technology (aka volumetric video / 3D video) company on a mission to improve the way people communicate, learn, work, shop and play. We provide an end-to-end solution to capture, transform and stream holograms that can be experienced through any device, browser or VR/AR headset. We put real people — not avatars — inside of immersive 3D experiences, either pre-recorded or in real-time, leading to more authentic human connection in digital worlds and the metaverse. 8i empowers new dimensions of experiencing content, with profound use cases, including immersive presentations and events, education and training, sports and entertainment, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our customers span forward-thinking organizations across technology, media and entertainment, retail and government, including Softbank, the U.S. Army, Google, Verizon and Walmart.

8i is a privately held company based in Venice, California, with offices in Chicago and Wellington, New Zealand, and is backed by VCs and strategic investors, including One Ventures, Verizon, RRE, LG Tech Ventures, Founder’s Fund and Hearst. Learn more at https://8i.com.

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Mashgin: Checkout So Fast, It Feels Like Magic

“It’s as much a signal for the future of convenience stores as it is an honor to have our technology recognized,” said Mashgin VP of Strategic Partnerships, Jack Hogan.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (PRWEB)
October 18, 2021

Convenience store leaders made it clear that frictionless is the future at the 2021 NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) Show, where Mashgin’s Touchless Self-Checkout System was officially named the top cool new product at NACS’ first return to an in-person trade show since the onset of the global pandemic. Among 270 new products showcased at the show, Mashgin received the most interest among attending retailers. Retailers voted by scanning a barcode next to the product in the “Cool New Products” showroom to learn more about Mashgin and find their booth location. Winning this top spot at NACS further validates Mashgin’s recent Stevie International Business Award for “Retail Company of the Year.”

Attendees of the 2021 NACS Show were also able to experience Mashgin upon arrival to and departure from Chicago O’Hare International Airport, where Mashgin also recently expanded deployment. View a short video of Mashgin in action here.

Mashgin is the most vetted computer vision powered self-checkout system with over 550 locations that span convenience stores, corporate cafeterias, stadiums, hospitals, and airports. It can visually identify items, including open plates of food, from virtually any angle or orientation with 99.9% accuracy — without the need for barcodes or RFIDs, perfectly consistent packaging or any particular orientations. Customers simply place the items they wish to purchase on the Mashgin kiosk, pay, and are on their way in as little as 10 seconds.

The ability to recognize objects and patterns the way the human eye does is something researchers of computer vision have long pursued. Mashgin’s proprietary technology mimics the complexities of the human visual cognitive system into a simple, but sophisticated system that creates an instantaneous checkout experience that’s as much as 400% faster than cashiers and 800% faster than traditional self-checkout systems. To date, Mashgin has completed over 20M transactions and $155M in transaction sales worldwide.

Mashgin recently introduced new payment integrations for convenience stores and fuel retailers, including an integration with Glory, a global leader in cash technology solutions. The new payment integrations allow customers to purchase fuel at Mashgin kiosks and use cash to checkout even faster than paying by credit card.

“It’s as much a signal for the future of convenience stores as it is an honor to have our technology recognized,” said Mashgin VP of Strategic Partnerships, Jack Hogan. “Mashgin had 290 total kiosks deployed at the start of 2021, and that number has grown by more than 300% to over 900 deployed across 550 locations today. Given the huge surge in requests for deployment by our partners and the rapid rate of adoption, the potential for a ubiquitous frictionless future enabled by touchless technology is more near-term than many realize.”

Email contact@mashgin.com to schedule a demo or learn more. Interested media, please access the Mashgin press kit here.

About Mashgin

Mashgin is the world’s fastest self-checkout system powered by AI and computer vision. Consumers demand instant gratification. Mashgin’s Touchless Checkout System eliminates consumer frustration while increasing revenue for retailers with checkout that is four times faster than cashiers and traditional points-of-sale. There’s no need to look for and scan bar codes: customers simply place their items on Mashgin’s tray, pay electronically, and can be on their way in as little as 10 seconds.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Mashgin is a privately held company backed by Matrix Partners, Susa Ventures and Y Combinator. Follow Mashgin on Twitter and LinkedIn or learn more about Mashgin at http://www.mashgin.com.

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Report: The Future of Youth Sports

Youth Sports Is Dead. Long Live Youth Sports

SAN FRANCISCO and BOSTON (PRWEB)
October 13, 2021

Attention Span Media, a strategic marketing and strategy agency, today announced that it has published “The Future of Youth Sports,” a deep dive into the cultural, technological, and economic forces that drive the $30 billion global youth sports industry.

The 46-page report was nearly completed in early 2020 before COVID-19 shut down almost every form of sports. Attention Span pushed the release date out by more than a year in order to explore and include the pandemic’s momentous impact on all components of youth sports. The project features ten topics, envisioning both positive and negative scenarios for youth sports in a post-pandemic world.

The publication—available for $24— is an extremely readable and actionable starting point for a wide spectrum of stakeholder audiences; including young athletes, parents, coaches, sports industry insiders, legislators, and regulatory bodies who are alarmed and dismayed at the trends and interested in improving the state of youth sports.

The days of youth sports as casual, mostly inclusive, relatively inexpensive activities intended to provide kids with a way to spend some of their free time getting exercise while learning how to compete with and collaborate with each other, are over. Little league baseball and self-organized playground games like H-O-R-S-E and stickball have been replaced with expensive nationally touring travel leagues, personal coaches, increasingly early specialization and high-pressure tryouts for elite teams.

“This report explores how the end of amateurism in youth sports has eroded away the traditional pathways that connect youth sports to success in college and beyond, looks at the ramifications of this sea-change for both the sports industry and society as a whole,” said Josh McHugh, a youth sports parent and coach as well as the CEO of Attention Span Media and the report’s editor in chief.

Previous Attention Span Media sports industry research, notably the Future of Sports 2.0, has called attention to the need for reform across several areas of the youth sports ecosystem.

The 2021 “Future of Youth Sports” calls for 10 specific reforms to fix youth sports, to include:

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  De-emphasize elite teams. Promote leagues and organizations that open teams to all players and “Make Youth Sports Fun Again.”
• Get kids moving. Ensure that kids engage in actual physical movement and resist trends towards categorizing sedentary video games as actual sports.
• Bring back recess. Require schools to schedule multiple recess periods where kids can engage in unstructured free play.
• Increase access for underserved communities. Encourage municipal government and private industry to work together to bring down the inflated and ever-rising costs of youth sports.
• Create a more level playing field for all genders. Begin all-gender games, leagues, teams and activities from an early age.
• Help young athletes manage the new flow of endorsement money. Now that NIL rules allow for sponsorships, endorsement contracts and revenue from social media to go directly to the athletes, they’ll need help dealing with sponsors – and keeping a healthy perspective on what’s important.
• Reduce early recruitment. Release athletes in revenue-generating sports like football and basketball from the need to specialize and excel too early and allow them to enjoy a broad youth sports experience.
• Increase resources for “Alt” sports. Expand kids’ horizons beyond the traditionally most popular team sports and increase the options and benefits for a broader category of athletes.
• Eliminate sexist toxicity in esports. With esports now incorporated into hundreds of collegiate sports programs, the industry must self-reform or add external oversight to ensure safety and equality for women participants.
• Merge digital games with physical sports. Create opportunities for kids to increase their exercise levels with emerging digital exercise platforms and devices.

Attention Span Media is a strategic marketing and business business strategy agency. We are a team of makers, polymaths, coders, craftsmen, creators, entrepreneurs, journalists, critics, innovators and travelers. We are passionate about doing inspired work with great partners and clients.

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STEADY LINK™ Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies

NAI’s STEADY LINK™ Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies have been designed to provide high precision FTSP performance for use with Nokia AirScale* wireless systems and cellular installations. Series-S Cable Assemblies have been designed to accommodate the growing demand for 5G mobile networks.

TROY, Mich. (PRWEB)
October 14, 2021

NAI’s STEADY LINK™ Series-S Cable Assemblies have been designed to provide high precision FTSP performance for use with Nokia AirScale* wireless systems and cellular installations. Series-S Cable Assemblies have been designed to accommodate the growing demand for 5G mobile networks. They will accommodate a variety of 5G applications, from Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) to airports, commercial enterprises and even deep rural villages.

These interconnects support the challenges of the rapidly developing Internet of Things (IoT) for high-capacity networks with simultaneously connected devices and low latency. AirScale and similar technologies increase cell capacity, lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) and facilitate faster delivery of 5G to consumers and businesses.

NAI Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies connect the devices used in these wireless tech¬nologies and networks, such as connecting radios in a base station. They are suitable for indoor and outdoor applications that meet the IEEE 802.11ac / Wi-Fi 5 standard for WLANs.

Standard components for NAI’s Steady Link™ SERIES-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies are made to order from inventoried materials, with quick shipment options available.

NAI’s Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies represent a cutting-edge solution for harsh outdoor environments. Engineered to withstand extreme temperatures, their ruggedized design will also tolerate other demanding conditions of continued outdoor exposure.

Part Numbers & Length Options:

NAI offers a choice of two standard lengths, along with a custom-length option.

Part No. / Length

NAI-5251-005 / 5 meters (16.4 ft.)

NAI-5151-015 / 15 meters (49.21 ft.)

NAI-5251-XXX / XXX = custom length in meters or feet, as specified by the customer

NAI provides a Quote Request form to obtain pricing for the GPS & Sync Assembly length desired.

GPS & Sync Cable Description:

The cable used for these assemblies includes 3 pairs with 24 AWG conductors The cable is shielded for EMI protection and is CMR rated, moisture and water resistant and RoHS compliant.

The Chlorinated Polyethylene (CPE) jacket is suitable for use in hostile environments where resistance to extreme temperatures, oxidation, oil, solvents, ozone, abrasion, or other harsh environmental conditions is needed.

High-Definition Multimedia Interface Connector Description:

The Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assembly includes a 19-pin High-Definition Multimedia Interface Type A connector, pre-terminated at both ends. The connector is gold-plated with a nickel copper shell. The connectors feature an over-molded flexible black PVC strain relief and a weatherproof boot, which fits Nokia Sync Port (PN TMC 825640B).

Other Specifications:

All Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies have a nominal DC resistance of 24 ohms per 1,000 feet and pass Hi-pot testing at 200VDC. Operating and storage temperatures are -40⁰F to +167⁰F. The cable assembly is IP67 rated for dust and water protection and is UV stable. See GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies Data Sheet for details.

For more information visit the NAI Steady Link™ Series-S GPS & Sync Cable Assemblies web page.

NAI will be launching other new Steady Link™ assembly products, including flexible assemblies, sync cable assemblies and more.

*Trademark of Nokia Solutions.

About NAI

NAI is the most resourceful interconnect solutions provider customers count on to solve design, manufacturing, and logistics problems. Offering copper and fiber optic cable assemblies and harnesses, coupled with block assemblies, panel and box builds, NAI provides an unparalleled breadth of capability. Being remarkably scalable, flexible, and agile, NAI customer projects are brought to life very quickly, while meeting or exceeding expectations and delivering high reliability.

NAI strives for high integrity with customer relationships by providing notable transparency and delivering on promises. Product and market diversity, an extraordinary talent base and an ability to supply globally are distinct characteristics of NAI.

Only NAI provides this unique combination of company attributes, distinguishing them as the most reliable supplier of interconnect product solutions and expert service.

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