CONTEST: Win 2 Tickets, Airfare, and Hotel to the NHL Winter Classic in Boston
Mashable is proud to be offering one lucky reader and a friend the chance to attend the third annual NHL Bridgestone Winter Classic in Boston, MA, between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins!
The NHL has been one of the most active sports leagues in the social media realm. They’ve been organizing fan tweetups, creating social networks through Twitter Lists, and, of course, holding Twitter contests.
Now the NHL is reaching out through social media channels in order to get two of our readers to Boston, MA, for the NHL Winter Classic Game on January 1, 2010. On top of that, they’re providing round-trip airfare and hotel for the night of December 31.
Here’s how to enter:
1. Post in the comments below, providing a link to either an image or a video that uniquely demonstrates your NHL fandom. This could be a cheer, an outfit or anything you can come up with, but it must focus around you and the NHL or a specific NHL team.
2. Make sure that the title of your picture or video includes the hashtag #MashableNHLContest. Post your media, with the hashtag in the title, on a site such as Flickr, 12Seconds.TV, or YouTube.
3. After the end of the contest on Sunday, December 27th at 11:59 PM PT, we will pick our favorite photo or video and contact that person to get him or her two tickets, plus airfare and hotel accommodations, to the NHL Winter Classic. We’re looking primarily for entertainment value, creativity, and NHL fan spirit.
4. Only one comment per person, please (duplicates will be disqualified). Please use a Disqus account to comment, or sign in as a guest. We’ll need to pull your email address from your comment to notify you if you’ve won, so Twitter and Facebook Connect do not work!
Contest Rules and Restrictions:
You must be 18+ years of age and currently reside in one of the 50 US States. If you would like to participate but are not of valid age/residence, please note “not eligible” in your comment below. By submitting, you are agreeing to the full rules and restrictions. Final entries are due on this post by Sunday, December 27th at 11:59 PM PT.
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Philadelphia wants to buy Earthlink’s former hardware, keep municipal WiFi dream alive
It never came to pass. Philadelphia’s city-wide WiFi plan was announced in 2006 and then, after struggling on for two years, died when Earthlink decided it wanted nothing to do with muni wireless. A private company called NAC bought the hardware last year and now the city wants to buy it from them for $2 million. The Mayor’s Office pledges to “provide free internet in targeted public spaces,” which is somewhat less aggressive than the previous city-wide reach, but ditching the $20/month that Earthlink was asking seems like a fair trade. The only question now is exactly which spaces will be targeted, and if South Street Philly Bagels doesn’t make the list that’s a damn shame.
Philadelphia wants to buy Earthlink’s former hardware, keep municipal WiFi dream alive originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/NSF_backs_development_of_laser_guided_robot_wheelchairs’; It’s been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project. According to associate professor John Spletzer, the recipient of a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the goal is to “extend the autonomy of the wheelchair so it can navigate completely in an urban setting and take you wherever you need to go.” This will be done by equipping robotic chairs with laser and camera sensors (which the team developed for the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge) as well as exhaustive, Google Street View-esque maps of the city where they will be operating. Of course, these guys will be operating in a busy urban environment, so in addition to large-scale 3D maps, they must be equipped with motion planning features for operating in dense crowds and a changing environment. It’s too soon yet to say when these things might become available commercially, but if you’re a resident of the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown, PA, you might have your chance to test one soon enough.
[Via PhysOrg]
Filed under: Robots
NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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