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MAYA’s Mickey McManus joins a distinguished group of professionals advancing the role of design research in innovation at IIT’s conference in Chicago.

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus joins designers at the Aspen Ideas Festival to talk about how great design can improve our world and our lives.

The Crossland Group is hosting an interactive, dynamic, and educational event featuring Mickey McManus, who will talk about pervasive computing and how the trillions of computer nodes in the world will ultimately be connected.

Mickey McManus will deliver the keynote address, “Beautiful Complexity: Design, Technology, and Industry in the Age of Trillions,” at the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering in Long Beach, CA.

Mickey McManus will deliver the keynote address at the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining’s annual SUMMIT event.

Mickey McManus returns to the ad:tech Under the Influence Summit to talk about social media, technology, word of mouth at scale, the trillions of data nodes that are everyone’s future, and influencer marketing.

The web is over, it was a cute lab experiment, the sort of toy that Nature watches her children play with and laughs. Six billion mobile devices. Eight? Ten? Cute as a button. What will happen when we climb the next mountain? When instead of information being “in” computers; people, products, environments, and cultures begin to live “in” the information?

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus will present the panel Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology at the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin.

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus joins copanelists at Enterprise Forum Pittsburgh for a discussion of the opportunities in big data for business, technology and design.

What happens when every thing in your world—your laundry, your kitchen, your house—streams billions of bits of information from trillions of connections, communicating with each other and with you? MAYA CEO Mickey McManus delivers the keynote at the Mobile Marketing Association’s Forum, “The Mobile Connected Life,” in San Francisco.

Mickey McManus will lead MBA students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in a Trillions master class hosted by Professor Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group.

Technology is disrupting the way we make things at all stages of fabrication and in all industries. More and more, consumers are dictating what they see and when they see it. Mickey McManus will join TechShop CEO Mark Hatch and others to talk about customization and the future of making stuff at Autodesk University in Las Vegas.

Thanks to technology, instant, usable, and reliable access to our memories and life experiences means living forever may not be science fiction much longer. Surrounded by a sea of information, how do we weave this “data” into something more than the sum of its parts? Mickey McManus and co-panelists will discuss “Immortality for Fun and Profit” at Techonomy Tucson.

Pete Lucas and Mickey McManus will visit Essential Pittsburgh for a vibrant discussion about the future of computing live on the air at 12:00 on October 29th at WESA 90.5 FM, Pittsburgh’s NPR news station. Join the conversation!

Mickey McManus will visit Princeton University’s Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education to talk about Trillions on October 24th. Mickey will also be stopping by John Danner’s course, “Ventures to Address Global Challenges”

What will mobile mean for businesses in a world where there are at least a trillion embedded computers—where consumers actually live IN the information? Register for a webinar presented by Mickey McManus with the Mobile Marketing Association on October 17th for a discussion of the rise of “T-Commerce” and its potential impact on mobile marketers.

In the age of Trillions, utilities and policy-makers will have to think beyond the smart grid to a system whose enormity we’re just starting to contemplate. Mickey McManus will explore the ramifications of a trillion node network as the keynote at Gridweek 2012’s Taming Complexity general session.

What does digital word-of-mouth marketing look like in a massively connected world, where your laundry talks to your washing machine and can influence point of purchase decision-making? Mickey McManus will sit down for an interview with Christine Osekoski, publisher of Fast Company, at AdWeek’s inaugural Under the Influence Summit in New York on October 1, 2012 to talk Trillions.

Mickey McManus will speak at the 2012 Blouin Creative Leadership Summit in New York, September 20-21, 2012. The Blouin Summit is an annual think-tank forum organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation in strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships.

Mickey McManus, MAYA’s CEO, will talk about the “disruptors” in health care delivery
for providers and health care companies and the impact of an empowered patient at the Global Leadership Summit, which is geared to senior-level executives in the retail, professional, lab and supplier sectors of the optical industry.

Mickey McManus emphasized the importance of teaching design at a young age when he was a panelist at the Art & Design: Being in the World session on September 19 in New York City. The panel discussed the role of education with respect to innovation and creativity. The Blouin Summit is an annual think-tank forum organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation in strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships.

Mickey McManus delivered a “flash of genius” session at this Economist event, which took place in Santa Clara, California.

Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the Connectivity Week 2011 conference “Smart Grid, Beyond the Grid,” in Santa Clara, CA. Mickey talked about what we can do with the deluge of information coming from machines and the need for managing complexity.

Mickey McManus was a presenter at this event.

“TEDxCMU is a conference at Carnegie Mellon University that brings together some of the world’s most bold and innovative thinkers to give the talk of their lives.”

Mickey McManus participated in the Rotman School’s Design Thinking Experts Speaker Series. The topic of his session was “How Design Thinking Can Drive Innovation.” His talk was open to the public and attended by the Toronto business community, in addition to Rotman’s MBA students and faculty.

Mickey McManus gave a roundtable presentation to leaders of industry, including those from major Canadian banks and other financial institutions. He challenged assumptions, emphasizing the importance of designing for a satisfying user experience. The Task Force was appointed by the Minister of Finance of Canada to make recommendations on the future of the Canadian payments system in light of technological and other changes. The final report, Moving Canada into the Digital Age, is available on-line.

Mickey McManus joined a worldwide celebration for designers when he presented at Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh at The Grey Box Theatre. Pecha Kucha Night happens each year in hundreds of cities, where young designers network and presenters share their stories, collections, products, and/or work—in 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Mickey McManus was a presenter at the Cusp Conference held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater in Chicago, September 22-23. The conference provides a broad framework for discussion about a wide range of ideas and topics related to “the design of everything.” Mickey talked about biomimicry and its role in taming the complexity of the trillion node world.

Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. The Festival is a conversation-packed exploration of some of the most important ideas and pressing issues the world faces. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the Festival strives to highlight the ideas of a diverse group of experts at the forefront of their fields and of leaders whose actions are changing the world.

Mickey McManus participated in “The Pressure to Innovate” panel on May 19, 2010 at the Conference Board Conference Center in New York City.

Mickey McManus participated in this exciting inaugural event for senior-level executives on March 24 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He spoke on a panel called “The Hybrid Problem Solver,” which focused on design thinking and beyond. In addition, Mickey designed and led incubator/problem-solving sessions where teams develop new solutions to current problems.

On November 9 , Mickey McManus co-presented “Complexity and Functionality vs. Usability and Usefulness: Are We Seeing a Hobson’s Choice in Healthcare?” at WHIT’s Consumer Connectivity Summit. His co-presenter was Jay Srini, Chief Innovation Officer, Information Services Division of UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center).

Designmatters is dedicated to exploring the intersection between design, technology and business, with the view that achieving synergy between those three components is essential for success in designing products, services and experiences and for the creation of successful business developments.

Mickey McManus talked about how MAYA Design tames the complexity of powerful technology to make people feel super human.

Mickey McManus presented “Team-based Innovation” at the RSA Innovation Sandbox at RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco. The Sandbox is a half-day event focused on the future of innovation security.

Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the Economist CIO Forum in New York City. He spoke to an elite group of chief information officers and senior IT leaders about how the computing establishment is about to face a monumental “innovator’s dilemma,” but few people even realize it.

On February 5, Mickey McManus gave a presentation at the Business and Technology Club at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Mick’s talk focused on “Applying Design Thinking to Business Challenges,” especially when complexity is growing at exponential rates, and business leaders at major companies are grappling with the challenge of innovation in products, services, and processes in a world headed towards a trillion connected devices.

Mick presented how to “Transform Your Show by Understanding the Human Dimension.” Informed by MAYA’s firsthand research with the “invisible” exhibitor and the “invisible” attendee, he revealed what truly matters to each, and how it could affect the future of a trade show.

Mick participated in a panel discussion entitled “Exhibitors and Attendees in Their Natural Habitat: Tools and Metrics for Analyzing Showsite Behavior to Improve Your Show.”

HEALTHCARE DESIGN 08 is the premier conference devoted to how the design of responsibly built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future. Mick discussed the power of true Human-Centered Design as practiced in a deeply collaborative environment.

Mick spoke to business school students about how the key principles of design thinking can be applied to business challenges, and how MAYA is using them not only to create more satisfying user experiences but also to drive change in traditional, product-centered organizations.

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus released two new research papers about Human-Centered Design within the Exhibition Industry at ECEF 2008. This research was co-sponsored by The ExpoGroup.

There are many kinds of leaders from all walks of life, but how does one define the qualities they all share? What inspires, what drives, what challenges someone, anyone, to become a leader?

At this Centers for Disease Control conference, MAYA CEO Mickey McManus presented a white paper about team strategies for facilitating innovation sessions.

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus gave the keynote presentation about market risks and opportunities that have arisen from a convergence of disruptive technology and the need for user centered design

In Berlin, Germany, Mick McManus joins Hakan Kostepen of Panasonic Automotive Systems America in a panel discussion on the topic of “creating consumer value for back-seat entertainment.”

Mick McManus spoke about MAYA’s Pervasive Computing Practice at this conference about the integration of digital technology in everyday life.

Mickey McManus was an invited presenter for two sessions at the M2M Europe Expo in Amsterdam.

Mickey McManus joined Russ Sabo, a client partner from Eaton, in Dallas, Texas to present our project as an example of human-centered design and rapid product realization in the context of machine-to-machine communication.

Mick McManus spoke to an international audience about aiming for human-oriented experience design when designing products at the forward edge of machine-to-machine (M2M) flows of information.

The words “Internet of Things” barely scratch the surface of the opportunities, and challenges, ahead.

Summer reading, reverse innovation, archangels and hunchbacks, Alef, Existence, Gotham’s villains, flipdot madness, something to do at the Olympics, and the Department of Hopeland Security.

Gateway 4, Trillions, truthiness, the company of the dead, thinking fast and slow, TNT freaks people out, the greatest lecture on creativity ever given, and a beautiful and fluid dance.

Angelmaker, the Rook, the Orphan Master’s son, SXSW and the reason why beauty is embarrassing, the VIP Pizza Button, seeing around corners, the emergence of swarm spam, and Jim Henson’s foray into computers.

Wild Abandon, Mayan predictions, the Empire States, a MAYAn best of list, a show about management consulting, the toaster, some algorithms, knowing but not understanding, DNA sequencing for garage biotech, and of course Spike Jonze and 3000 bits of felt.

Grumpy blather, Audio Reality, best toys ever, MAYAn Action League!, projection mapping taken to a whole new level, turning air into plasma so you can see Obi-Wan, 138 years of Popular Science, and Ice Cube on Charles and Ray Eames.

A night circus, a russian mobster, some pictures of Thailand, a murmuration of starlings, superconductivity on ice, living bridges, mall tigers, the theoretical stereolizer, Eames, Hugo, Ukuleles, monster supplies, and yes, something made of legos.

What if there were a basic literacy beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic that we missed, or that wasn’t necessary until this moment in our history? And what if that new literacy were the organizing principle between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and SEL (social, emotional learning)? What if it could help the least among us leapfrog over the mainstream? What if it could help build collaborative, resilient, creative, & critical thinkers in an age of exponential change?

Innovate:Education, Embassytown and the Rise of the Iron Moon, Solo, virtuosity, the basic rules of makers, pendulum paradox, disposable digital paper, and how our hands help us solve problems.

Funes Lives, TED, AR toys and tools, everyone’s cognitive toolkit, putpockets, video conferencing with a bit of brains, the trials of the superplexus, and soviet monuments of the future’s past.

Airstream, you steam, we all scream for ice cream!, TEDxCMU, the Information, AMUL, the story of glass, cheetah bot, Citroen for 2, 100 million ceramic sunflower seeds, Google Ideas, and Mario had a harder time than I thought.

A friend of mine seems to be obsessed with using the game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to settle just about any dispute that arises in our team meetings. Most people think “Rock, Paper, Scissors” is a simple game of chance. Everyone knows the rules; rock breaks scissors, paper covers rock, scissors cut paper. Since it seems random, most of us just decide to play a favorite; I usually play rock, as an opening gambit. Sure enough every once in a while I get lucky. I’ve noticed that most of the time though, my friend wins. I decided I wanted to find out why…

Happy Holidays, Rube Goldberg, reading level search, personal fabricators, real heroes, the joy of stats, Mini Countryman, cold plasma, 360 degree Youtube, Sagmeister, and of course troll fighting 11 year old orthodox Jewish girl comics.

Powers of ten (for design patterns), malignant beauty, sketching an interaction guide, digital clouds, Nike grid, the Gettysburg Address brought to life, random objects as controllers for gaming, apparently we can see the future, a hundred million 311 calls, Disney rap, a revisiting of a classic series of urban planning studies as visualizations, Kinect hacking, and Kanye West wonders why the caged bird sings.

Ian Banks, MAYAmake, you know more than you know you know, and where is rob?

Cusp2010, techshop, touch comes to town, puppet making by the master, and Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon show why they (and the Roots) completely rock.

Ford, Bucky, star wars, dark patterns, the Mongoliad, rules for radicals, hackerspaces, iPony, and the most unsung actor in Hollywood.

Cutting for stone, raising Chicago, duck knight, words, toast, and the problem with thinking too much.

Aspen Ideas Festival, TEDGlobal, holograms, creativity, and edible brains.

Fordlandia, under heaven, best small company to work for, slow motion disasters, rent a white guy, Al Franken explains the value of the constitution, best illusion of the year, and a real time world cup tracker.

Facejobs, the quantified life, didgets and data platforms, thinking about tomorrow, zip files all the way down, the marshmallow challenge, and the show book of the world.

The Girl with the Tattoo, the iPad Challenge, Ed Catmull and the Hybrid Problem Solver, Panorama, robodog and rosie, heat vision and jack, will it blend, an impressive portfolio, and shaking your way to literacy.

The Ideas Economy, have paper will prototype, a case for design literacy, Black Hills, the heatswell coffee cup, an indoor tornado, the arrow of time (teeth edition), Ms. Badu visits Dallas, insect bling, and data data everywhere.

Vice guide to a strange land, Ninendo plays with dimensions, Tom Waits sings a song, digesting the web, charting the Beatles, cat food, mothership, and a glass harp virtuoso.

Your man, massive attack, Pittsburgh winter sports, howtoons, the lady, and the reaper.

First thoughts about Apple’s new iPad in the context of the future.

Our hero, how to report the news, soap box derby delight, a very personal annual report, the political power of visualizations, Lost is found, tape measure masters, and exit through the gift shop.

Rhiza Earth tours, TEDx, mini left overs, CES highlights, the lost supper, voiceband, and of course, Sneans (err, Jeakers?).

Festivus, chrome, doppelgangers for sale, photo-collage sculptures, holiday-based computing, your brain on checkers, the Copenhagen wheel, and a taste of a London that never was.

Work is a game, zettabytes, art is a lie, living stories, the CO2 cube, LEGOS, Scott Kim, bioprinters, and an engine with a difference.

Free, makers, networked car driving Elmos, a few bright spots in the healthcare morass, trillions, idle human initiatives, autocaptioning, Tim Burton, and a magic wand.

A million miles, succeed once in a while, 99 red balloons, I miss Carl, how Facebook makes money, making healthcare better, beautiful newspapers could happen, and a simple idea for storytelling.

Chronic City, Petman, flowcharting the Beatles, failing to learn, the perils of having feet of clay, the quality of light.

A ship of gold, juliet naked, the meaning of night, caveman sci-fi, the theory of fun, Manhattan before all those pesky westerners, an amazing new (old) camera, a game for snoopers, and the botany of desire.

A few book reviews to clear off my shelf, a classic segment (from this week’s news) of the daily show, tools for the mind, memristors, the power of time off, and a different way to draw borders on a map.

Yes is more, random stats, tag, a little known band, a politician who can actually draw all the states from memory, a few nice moments, and a drill powered bike.

The angel’s game, the book of space, remixing youtube, T-Pain or not T-Pain, projectopong, spike gets his interview, I always knew something was going on at IKEA, USB eye warmers, and a house made of legos. Who could ask for anything more?

Staring at goats, tracking the amazing and positive growth of health and prosperity in the world (really, Jeesh, lighten up!), tasting light, a human interface, grilling brats on your phone, the design of EMR systems (or lack thereof), a sustainable city of umbrellas, blinky things, and spots before our eyes.

Short list this week, Bobby, Dean, George, Kanye, and Aldous.

TEDGlobal, Manahatta, BIG,trompe l’oeil… but with light instead, Mr. Fox, touchable holographics, Zeitoun, iPhone robots, and how people really spend their time.

Great documentary, patented shoes, living by the numbers, cooking with greenscreen, Low-poly fashion, the architecture of data farming, napping, and the Roots.

How to win a cosmic war, the CIO 100, pop-psych persuasion, the appeal of aged news, teaching kids to argue, doctors focusing on patients, a little black hole, Banksy is back, Zaha takes on Burnham, and a taste of Tomato.

Babies, learning design through reality TV, a new kind of controller, gestures, a better place, mapping the Internet by hand, the wisdom of the crowds in your head, asking nature, fun with liquid metals, google squared, a powerful story about human-centered design, and of course budgets are sexxy.

Rebranding USA, improve everywhere, an easy solution, avant gardeners, Guilloche patterns, and the swiss army camper of my dreams.

Alpha, Data.gov, Imogene, brands that will disappear, the selected works of T.S. Spivet, working with your hands, push-button house, ancient artifact graffiti, calling cards and playing cards.

Flutracker, information-centricity, a notebook, physics is the new black, the singularity, bendy things, and of course a slow motion piano crash.

The wrong cloud, deathcasting for dollars, is America still innovative, Luigi Colani’s fever dreams, hairhats, gorrilla specs, and the rise of silly motoring.

Junior MAYAn Action League, where the wild things are, this little light of mine, balloonimals (or fun with the microphone on your iPhone), smoking hot electric cars, skateboard friendly housing, hot dog octopi, and of course robots that spit fire.

A book about Dickens (ok sorta about Dickens), Dave Eggers co-writes a film, plants are good, I love motorcycles (though no I won’t drive one), holograms are bad, improv is everywhere, LEDs take the iPhone back in time, and a bit of fun with projectors.

Mr. Stewart mixes it up, where did the money go, 6th sense, wind power, and a wrist computer for people with very big arms, and very keen eyesight.

Who watches, how we decide, building a world, garbage bag monsters, robots and playbourers unite, and love will tear/keep us together/apart.

Light week in linkland… What happens when you take out keyframes, tinkering is good, abandoned luxuries, and the second lives of things.

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Information Architecture but were afraid to ask, a kid approved storymaker, jetpacks available now (sorta), who watches the watchmen, and really nothing at all to worry about.

Two short films and a bit of a rant about Information Architecture.

Slow week in link land. How the world will end, UAVs for all, buttons ATMs Legos robots, a fire on the mountain, and dying towns.

Steeler baby, focused sound, chiabama, zooming is the new black, Rem Koolhaas comes to New York, and a nice clip about this generation.

A new day, some nice pictures of the inauguration, beating plowshares into swords, understanding comics, the new lunar rover, and how the day sounds.

How to make soda water, mind games, Burger King figures out a way to help you cull your “friends,” some strange maps, a little something musical, and a way to hack your brain without drugs.

Very light week in linkland. Core77’s best of the best, custom scooters, Zbig takes someone to school, digging into the wayback machine, self-balancing table, an art show in Miami, and a bit of Feynman.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the Harlem Children’s Zone, tunable glasses, scouting for cool locations, handmade fonts, music list for 2008, and something that clearly needs to be demodulated before appreciating it.

Books for the holidays, the Onion’s version of the Geobrowser, Caractacus Potts, the fabled “Z” dimension, a year full of ideas, the sweet smell of a Whopper, Brian Eno makes an iPhone app to help you sleep, and of course the Evil Dead musical.

The true cost of the twelve days of Christmas, 5 things that will change our lives, the problem with “Just in Time,” a true prince, radical knitting, brain pictures, and a flying nun chair… all while my ukulele gently weeps.

Two book reviews, a musical instrument made out of the pictures you draw as you draw them, Elvis’ new spectacles, a little sugar, a mystery man, and some beautiful hype.

Tutoring kids, white castles of joy, Bruce Lee, active video objects, diagrammatical excess, Lessig on Rose, and a story of rags to riches in Bollywood.

Why super capacitors are better than batteries for some things (if you can afford them), a dancing moustache, Jeff Han’s conspiracy, James T is a teenage rebel, the Coen brothers tell stories, Proust was a Neuroscientist, and that is not Milwaukee.

Minority reports, the muppets, your new girlfriend, new money, a book that shows you how to do everything, muybridge lives, Rod Serling we hardly new ye, and a collection of blackboard diagrams from mathematicians to musicians.

Mick spoke to business school students about how the key principles of design thinking can be applied to business challenges, and how MAYA is using them not only to create more satisfying user experiences but also to drive change in traditional, product-centered organizations.

A short film on the electoral process, x-rays from scotch tape, the secret behind helping kids excel in life, how much time it takes to be really good at something, and 10 bucks worth of sharpies.

Post-it cheat sheets, the remix economy, zapping zoom, boolean hyper-realism, bomb sniffing laundrymat, and a new way to sketch in 3-d.

A visit to one of my favorite streets (don’t be afraid of all the words, they like you), shared paper, the financial crisis as told to a 14 year old, an amazing home library, and yes, finally, a vending machine for men (err women).

Heavy week, light collection of links. Warren Buffett with some timely comments on the economy, architecture as special effect, a museum dashboard, a nice take away, and a quantum of solace.

Fun with magnets, stunning photographs of books, curious experiments in pay for performance, cat 5 compliant wedding rings, and an inside look at the future? of magazines (and every other surface the geeks can get their hands on).

Being a bird, alive, silly, human, and potentially ground beef. Plus don’t miss a new form of text entry and tips for collecting humans.

English language is a mess, trusting what we see, what it feels like to make code, pointillist telepresence, an operating system about nothing, and as we may (or may not have enough time to) think.

Light leftly longingly lately lamentable links lie in wait…

The National Attention Deficit, Summer Songs, a visit to the Uncanny Valley, Muons for Mayans, and the Last Supper.

Watch a wonderful animation that brings John Lennon’s words to life, wonder at a new computing method that makes bad videos better (and reminds us why we can’t trust what we see anymore at all), and listen to the Irrepressibles haunting sounds… and of course the usual detritus of a week on the web.

The opening ceremony, Britain from above, David Bryne is in a valley of robots, Michel has a comic book, tracking the last hope, and EamesPunk finally has a manifesto.

A light week in linkland apparently the tubes are slowing down for the summer heat. Visit the Toaster Museum, learn about Dr. Horrible , and stare in wonder at the Super Collider…

Mickey McManus, Erik Dahl, Paul Gould

What’s in a name?

Ubiquitous computing, ubicomp, context aware computing, whatever you call it the basic idea is the same. Somehow we have to use the physical world to help “Tame” the complexity that is rapidly overwhelming us all.

A few links from our overseas trip, jetpacks?, Feist, and a snippet of Ms. Portman as an Octopus.

Mickey McManus, Paul Gould, Erik Dahl

Heather McQuaid, Aradhana Goel, Mickey McManus

Heather McQuaid, Aradhana Goel, Mickey McManus

Mike Higgins, Mickey McManus, Marc Peterson, Aradhana Goel

Koempel; Jeremy (Pittsburgh, PA);McManus; Michael L
(Oakdale, PA); Seung Chan Lim (Pittsburgh, PA)

An entertainment system for a vehicle and includes a vehicle environment sensor apparatus that captures data indicative of the vehicle’s environment and that generates a vehicle environment data feed.

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McManus; Michael L (Oakdale, PA); Piraneque; Javier E. (Cranberry Township, PA);

Abstract: A handheld electronic device, such as a fob, includes a wireless communication port and a display alternatively displaying a first or right-handed display orientation and a second or left-handed display orientation.

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Joseph Ballay (Atlanta, GA); Mickey McManus (Oakdale, PA); Luebke, Charles J. (Sussex, WI); Sabo, Russ C. (Sewickley, PA); Sabram, William C. (Lynn, MA); Ballay, Joseph M. (Atlanta, GA);

Abstract: A home wellness system includes a base station having a wireless communication port, a telephone communication port and a memory with a plurality of digital images.

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Joseph Ballay; Joseph Milan (Pittsburgh, PA), Mickey McManus; Michael Lawrence (Oakdale, PA)

Abstract: A home wellness system includes a server having a wireless transceiver, a plurality of sensors each of which has a wireless transceiver adapted to communicate sensor information to the server wireless transceiver, and a portable display and configuration fob, the portable fob includes a rotary thumbwheel encoder, a display and a wireless transceiver communicating with the server wireless transceiver, the thumbwheel encoder and the display cooperate to provide a first rotary menu for displaying the sensor information of the sensors and a second rotary menu for configuring the sensors.

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Mickey McManus, Charles Luebke

Abstract: A home system includes a server having a first wireless communication port and a user interface.

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