Adidas Adizero f50 revamp gets a whole lot smarter

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Adidas’ Adizero f50 has undergone a revamp – where it also picked up another gram in weight, but the amount of features that comes with that extra gram is well worth its weight, can I say, even in gold. Director of miCoach at Adidas, Simon Drabble, described the new f50 boots as “the next generation of football innovation”. What went into the boot is a micro-chip known as the miCoach Speed Cell, where it will be slotted right under the sock-liner in a strategic position so that performance of insanely paid footballers will not be affected negatively.

Dubbed as “the world’s first boot with a brain”, the f50 is smart enough to track your performance during a match, doing 360-degree movement instead of relying on just gathering linear action data. All the collected data concerning speed and distance will be crunched using the Speed Cell software, where the statistician in you will be pleased to find out details of your performance such as the average speed, distance covered, time spent walking, and the number of sprints amongst others.

Adidas goes wireless with the f50 since it will ‘talk’ to a computer via a wireless USB dongle, and if you’re interested in upping the ante in your football game (soccer for those living in the US), the Adizero f50 powered by miCoach will arrive this November for €245, where that will net you the Speed Cell and dongle as well.

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Smarter Vehicle platform showcased at Extreme Blue

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Don’t you hate it when you have many family members sharing the same car, and you need to use the car but you need to spend the next several minutes adjusting the seat, mirrors, radio station, etc? While it may not be making its way into our vehicles in the near future, an Extreme Blue project organized by IBM has resulted in the Smarter Vehicle platform.

Through the use of an RFID tag that the car owner is wearing, the car will be able to react accordingly. I suppose one could think of the RFID tag as a user profile where the car will adjust the seat accordingly, change the radio to your favorite station, heat the seats, etc. The system will even store more than just personal preferences and apparently will learn where the user is going.

Not just content with minor conveniences and personal preferences, sensors built into the steering wheel can check the driver’s heart rate and blood pressure to keep an eye on the stress levels, levels which will without doubt rise during bad traffic jams. Those who took part in the project have apparently been in touch with car maker Jaguar who may be considering using this technology should it make its way outside of the lab.

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Google Chrome to get smarter spellchecker

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Don’t you hate it when you send email messages or when you blog and you get typos or wrongly spelled words? The good news is that Google Chrome will be getting an upgrade with a smart spellchecker that should hopefully solve some of your misspelt woes!

Similarly to Firefox, Chrome does not really feature a smart spellchecker, but instead it relies on a dictionary that suggests a list of words for you to pick from. Sometimes that can be a bad thing especially if you really do not know how that particular word is spelt. If you use Google for your searches, you’ll realize that often a misspelled word will result in Google displaying a “Did you mean…” message along with the correct spelling of whatever it is you were searching for.

Apparently this feature was not originally included into Chrome due to some concerns regarding privacy, but now it looks like that Google’s Chrome team has had a change of heart and will be incorporating the “Did you mean” feature into Chrome’s spelling suggestions.

Unlike a typical spellchecker, this one requires you to be connected to the internet and could mean that suggestions may not be displayed immediately, but given that it’s a more powerful tool compared to the current spellcheck system, what’s an extra second or two of waiting, right?

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How Crunching Key Sales Numbers Will Increase Sales & Help You Sell Smarter, Not Harder

In sales, it is the simple actions that generate the greatest results. If your desire is to increase sales, then take some time to crunch your key sales numbers. Taking this action allows you to work smarter not harder. So what are those key sales number?

I am continually amazed at the number of small business owners or sales professionals be them manufacturers, retailers, distributors realtors, mortgage brokers, insurance agents, financial advisers, lawyers, accountants, information technology consultants and even business coaches who do not now their numbers. No wonder they are working harder not smarter.

Here are some critical key numbers that every sales professional should know to be able to efficiently and effectively increase sales:

Total Sales for the last 12 months
Average sale value for the last 12 months
Number of active clients (those conducting business within the last 12 months)
Number of sales transactions for the last 12 months
Historical sales growth for the last 5 years
Average profit per average sale for the last 12 months

Let's say that you currently generate $240,000 in sales. Breaking this down further means on average that you receive:

$20,000 in sales per month
$5,000 in sales per week
$1,000 in sales per day

Now you determine that your average sale is $100 and this means that you must have 10 orders per day to make your current sales levels. You want to increase your sales from the historic growth of 7%-9% to at least 15% which is almost double your historical growth and starts to make you feel somewhat uncomfortable. Yet, you know that your marketplace is growing, more and more competitors are hanging up their signs so you believe that this is possible. Sales Coaching Tip: To be competitive means you must leave your comfort zone and that will make you uncomfortable.

To reach your new growth goal means an additional $36,000 in new sales or $3,000 more a month. This translates to 30 more transactions per month (average sales value is $100) or 1.5 more new sales per day. When you begin to crunch the numbers, securing another 1.5 sales does not seem that impossible.

Now you further realize that your existing customer base of 100 active clients make on average of 2 purchases a month. By doing the math, you quickly determine that by increasing monthly purchases to 3 for 10% of your customers, you can easily pick up another $12,000 in sales. Sales Coaching Tip: Look for the low hanging fruit that is probably there, but you ran by it because you just did not see it.

In reviewing your inactive clients of 300, you notice that some of them buy once a year. If you make sure that just half of them buy twice a year, instead of just one time, you can add another $15,000 to your total sales. Sales Coaching Tip: Working with existing client is much more cost effective than trying to find new customers.

Finally, in your historical growth you receive an average of 10 new customers per year. Your research suggests that only one third of them will buy twice a month and the rest will purchase only one time. This results in another $12,000.

Your projections look something like this:

$12,000 from additional monthly purchases for 10 existing customers
$15,000 from one additional purchase from 50% of inactive customers
$12,000 from historical growth of 10 new customers
$39,000 in total projected new sales by focusing on just 3 sales areas

All of a sudden you see that you can achieve your sales goal and with some additional sales to spare. This activity is much like answering the question: How do you eat an elephant? Answer: One bite at a time. By taking small bites in specific areas, you can increase sales.

Now you understand the importance of knowing your sales numbers. So get the #2 pencil out or the Excel spread sheet and start crunching those numbers!

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Study Smarter, Not Longer: ACT Prep, PSAT and Practice AP English Literature Exams

With all the emphasis that is placed on standardized testing these days, you might think that those tests one might think that they truly measured a person's intelligence. But it's impossible to measure a person's intelligence with just one test, especially one like the SAT. What if a student gets a poor score on the SAT/ACT/GRE, but wins a Pulitzer Prize at age 18? That's a highly unlikely example of course, but there are certainly multiple ways to measure intelligence and potential for success. Of course, grades aren't a surefire indication either. Einstein is said to have done poorly in math in high school and both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college, but it's doubtful that anyone considers them unintelligent or unsuccessful.

But in the absence of a perfect indicator of potential success in college (and life), tests like the SAT and ACT are really students have. Just about any SAT or ACT prep book will start off by declaring that tests like the SAT and ACT don't actually measure a person's intellect; they measure how well that student can take the SAT/ACT/etc. All of those standardized tests are relatively formulaic and if students know what to study and how to study it, their chances for success on them are significantly higher.

The are a variety of practice tests available for just about every standardized exam out there (LSAT and MCAT students may take more than 10 practice tests before sitting for the real thing), but the SAT actually has its own standardized practice test, the PSAT. High achieving students spend an awful lot of time studying and preparing for something that has the word "practice" at the front of it, but they might not be as obsessive as one may think. Qualifying scores on the PSAT can make a student eligible for a National Merit Scholarship. Even if students don't actually get the scholarship, if they're National Merit Finalist they can put that fact on their college applications. College admissions are getting more and more competitive all the time, so every little achievement helps.

Students hoping to do well on AP exams have it slightly easier; if the teachers in their Advanced Placement classes are doing their jobs properly, they should be preparing students for the appropriate AP exams all year long. Unlike the SAT or ACT, these AP exams only test mastery in a specific subject, and aren't simple fill-in-the-bubbles type tests. The AP English Literature Exam, for instance, requires students to write multiple short and long essays about a variety of works of literature (usually students can pick one or two from a provided list; they're not immediately disqualified if they didn't happen to read Crime and Punishment in high school).

Students may dread these tests (and rightfully so; who wants to give up Saturday morning in May to fill in a Scantron?), but if they learn to know their enemy, they don't need to fear them. The right resources and insights from instructors and mentors can help them to study smarter, not longer.

Paul Thomson is an writer and frequent online contributor who is passionate about improving college readiness. He frequently writes about the ACT prep, PSAT, and AP exams. In his spare time, he loves to promote the joy of reading to youth in his community.

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