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Future technology...

Skinput: replacing cell phones?

Microsoft is working on a new flesh-control technology called “skinput,” which allows you to use your skin as the surface for inputting information for mobile devices. So with a simple click of your arm (or other body part) you can control your phone, your music, whatever.

Now your friends can screw up your calls with a simple slap on the wrist!

Although we must say, it sounds amazingly practical when you see the video here.
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Past technology...

A very timely death for IE 6...

This past week, a "funeral" has been held for Internet Explorer 6, the aging web browser, survived by IE 7 and IE 8.By Mid-March, both YouTube, Google Docs and Google Sites will no longer support IE6. (This is a development supported by website designers worldwide.)

But what does this mean to the hangers-on still using IE6? It means it's time to update to IE 8 (for FREE!) if you want to see what the rest of the world sees online. Even the fine folks at Microsoft agree: it's time...
At Sevell + Sevell
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Some recent awards

Two awards from SMPS Columbus

This week, SMPS Columbus (the local chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services) had their marketing awards, and we did OK. SMPS Columbus is one of the larger chapters of SMPS National, and has rekindled their awards event, and our work for Woolpert Design & Construction won for advertising and self-promotion.Samples of the ad series is shown here, and the self-promotion winner was for an email series.

And speaking of awards, there's an awards event called the "Tracy Awards" which is given, in their words, for "a unique little nugget of embarrassment that's helped lower the bar in the world of advertising creativity and execution".  Check it out.