I follow Jim Tobias at inclusive.com (you should, too!) and really enjoyed his highlighting of "ESPN explaining captioning" (http://inclusive.com/2011/11/espn-explains-captioning/). Click on http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2011/10/how-closed-captioning-works/ to see how television networks closed caption their shows 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Too cool.
ESPN! Closed captioning! Awesome!
Susanne Croasdaile
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:01 GMT
The NFL’s Thursday Night Football schedule is now in full swing, but if your cable provider doesn’t give you access to the NFL Network, you’ve been missing out on some pretty good football. Well, that doesn’t have to be the case anymore, at least as long as you have an iPad, because the NFL’s official iPad app has been updated with access to the NFL Network’s online broadcast of Thursday Night Football.
The NFL Network’s online broadcast of Thursday Night Football provides game-long studio analysis, live look-ins, and game highlights, so you’ll never miss the big game-changing play. Since this isn’t a direct live stream of the game, it could also serve as a companion for those who already have access to the NFL Network at home.
Since the NFL Network’s online coverage of Thursday Night Football doesn’t begin until 8 PM ET, there’s no good way of knowing exactly how to access the feed from the iPad app. But if we had take a stab at it, we’re guessing it will be under the “video” section of the app. We’ll just have to wait and see.
While you wait until 8 PM to roll around, go download the free NFL ’11 for iPad app so you can dig around before the game starts. The app has come a long way since it was first introduced in April, and now includes on-demand NFL Network news and info, game highlights, the ability to follow game action with animated charts and stats, and live radio broadcasts via the NFL’s Audio Pass.
Update: Here’s how to view the NFL Network’s online broadcast of Thursday Night Football: When viewing “Game Schedules” you should see a big red “Live Video Available” below the Eagles vs. Seahawks game. Tap it to bring up the stats page, and at the top of the screen you’ll see a new “Live Video” button.
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A group of RIT/NTID students recently won second place and a $1,250 check in the Shark Tank competition at RIT for their project, V-Sports, a device designed to facilitate communication via vibration notification for deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes.
Members of the team are Jeremiah Thompson, a business administration major from Olathe, Kan., Tyler Swob, an applied mathematics major from Escondido, Calif., Shane Qualls, an engineering technology major from Olathe and Michael Della Penna, an accounting technology major from Tampa Bay, Fla. Ken Hertzog, a hearing student who is a computer engineering major from Henrietta, N.Y., serves as product developer with the team.
The four RIT/NTID students, with Hertzog, who developed V-Sports as part of his co-op job at NTID’s Center on Access Technology Innovation Lab, came up with the idea of a vibration notification system – a wristband or device placed elsewhere – based on some of their experience playing sports. They say miscommunication is common in deaf sports and can lead to aggression, extended plays, inequality with hearing players, confusion and false starts.
They entered the fourth Shark Tank competition at The Albert J. Simone Center for Entrepreneurship at RIT, a contest designed to provide winners prize money to help develop their products.
There were approximately 50 teams and only five teams were called back to give a formal pitch to a panel of judges.
“The judges were surprised to find that there is no other product like it out there,” Swob says.
The team has tested a receiver attachment that can be worn on any part of the body and connected wirelessly to one or two transmitters. One transmitter is known as the whistle and is designed for referees, although coaches can use it for practices. The second transmitter would be wirelessly connected to the coach’s smartphone that would be running a software application that sends a Bluetooth signal to receivers to make them vibrate.
The team says they hope to market their product to schools. A prototype was tested recently at Rochester School for the Deaf, and the feedback was “quite positive and encouraging,” Swob said.
He said the team will use their prize for marketing and product development.
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