European Poker Tour 2014Live GraphicsDancing On Ice Live Tour 2014Judges Voting System / GraphicsSaturday Night Takeaway Win The Ads Game / Computer Graphics Saturday Night Takeaway - Win The AdsThe Voice UK - Coaches Chair ControlWould I Lie To You?Question Of SportChannel 4 Election 2010Push The ButtonThat's Britain - Word WallQuizbox Round One engineer a wide variety of computer-based systems for broadcast, corporate and entertainment events. Over the past 25 years, our clients have included all of the UK's major broadcasters and many independent production companies. Our systems have been at the heart of the most familiar gameshows, live spectaculars, news and sport events, children's programming, light entertainment shows and drama on British television.IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2002 Jun;10(2):122-5.Author information1Texas Robotics and Automation Center, Houston 77058, USA.AbstractSeveral researchers have described voice control mechanisms for a power wheelchair, but voice control has yet to become a commercially viable control alternative.
One problem with voice control is that the voice's limited bandwidth renders it impossible to make frequent small adjustments to the wheelchair's velocity. One possible solution is to utilize voice control in combination with the navigation assistance provided by "smart wheelchairs," which use sensors to identify and avoid obstacles in the wheelchair's path. This paper describes an experiment that compares the performance of able-bodied subjects using voice control to operate a power wheelchair both with and without navigation assistance.PMID: 12236450 DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2002.1031981 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication TypesCase ReportsEvaluation StudiesMeSH TermsAcoustics/instrumentation*AdultEquipment DesignFeedbackFemaleHumansMaleSpeech*Task Performance and Analysis*User-Computer Interface*VoiceWheelchairs*Full Text SourcesIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyOther Literature SourcesCOS Scholar UniverseCited by Patents in - The Lens« Previous Post | L.A. at Home Home
These are some of the high-and-mighty folks who sit in judgment of America's singing-dancing wannabe stars. But where do they actually sit, and can you get a throne just like one of theirs? Let's get to the bottom of this. NBC's "The Voice" crowned Javier Colon the winner less than a month ago and the show is scheduled to return in the winter -- good news for design fans like me, who were fascinated with the synchronized rotating judges' chairs, as shown at right with winning coach Adam Levine. Made with red leather cushions and black gunmetal finished frames, the chairs were "the hero element," said "The Voice's" production designer Anton Goss of Consortium Studios. Each had to be calibrated with rotating mechanisms and decked out with cushions that allowed for the different-sized judges to appear to be the same height. "We really feel we raised the bar," he added. "They're a little bit 'Star Trek' mixed with Midcentury design and rock 'n' roll styling." Goss had them produced as proprietary designs at a cost estimated at tens of thousands per chair by the Burbank firm Scenic Route.
Translation: You can't order one, even if you could afford it. By contrast, the chairs on NBC's "America's Got Talent," top, and Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," right, look much more familiar. Indeed the only difference between the two is that the judges on "America's Got Talent" have leather-backed versions, and the chairs on the panel of "So You Think You Can Dance" are mesh-backed. "The chairs are very comfortable," said "America's Got Talent" production designer James Yarnell, who identified them as under-$1,000 In chairs by Trendway. "The judges have never said anything against them, which is a good thing as they're very verbal if they are uncomfortable with anything." Speaking of comfort, Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and L.A. Reid will be sitting in the lap of luxury when "The X Factor" debuts this fall. The show's art director, Tamlyn Wright, chose a Midcentury Modern classic for the panel. "For the British version of 'The X Factor,' they had used the Aluminum Group chair in black leather," she said.
"They liked the Eames design aesthetics and it complemented the art direction of the show, so we wanted to stay in that world of design, quality and comfort." Wright ordered the Aluminum Group's more deluxe Soft Pad Management chair, shown below, a 1969 Charles and Ray Eames design, customizing it with an added cylinder adjustment rod in the neck of the chair to accommodate the judges' various heights. It can be ordered directly from Herman Miller, with prices starting at $2,689. -- David A. Keeps Photo credits: NBC, Fox, Herman MillerBotswana’s Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi says she is busy “mopping up any last minute votes” for this afternoon’s African Union (AU) Commission chairperson position. Speaking to the voice this morning, Venson-Moitoi said is thankful to all the support she has received from Batswana. “The Team here in Addis, Ethiopia are high on alert mopping up any last minute vote. We are thankful for all the incredible support from our volunteers and Batswana and Africa,” she said.
The voting by heads of state is scheduled to commence this afternoon at 1430 hrs. The Southern African development Communicty (SADC) early this year endorsed Botswana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs after a meeting in Gaborone on February 26. Last July, she failed to secure enough votes for a win in Rwanda hence the second run of votes today. She only managed 23 of the required 36 votes for a clear win. Other candidates contesting for the AU Commission’s top position are Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat, Equatorial Guinea’s Agapito Mba Mokuy, Kenya’s Dr Amina Mohammed and Senegal’s Dr Abdoulaye Bathily. Over and above the AU top job, the 28 ordinary session of the Heads of State and Government is expected to focus on a number of issues including the financing of AU, Continental Free Trade Area, state of peace and security in Africa; African Peer Review Mechanism, gender equality and education, progress against malaria among other issues. Other positions include deputy chairperson, appointments of eight Commissioners of the AU Commission, as well as appointments to other organs of AU.