Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on ALT 105.7 and iHeartRadio 9/26/20 - Green Boom's Dr. Sudhir Sharma

Green Boom is making it a priority to clean up our environment.

Rick talks with Dr. Sudhir Sharma, the founder of Green Boom this week on iHeartRadio.

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Green Boom has announced a number of biodegradable, water repellent oil-only absorbents.
The patent-pending revolutionary line of eco-friendly absorbent products works for oil spill prevention, response and remediation. The Atlanta-based company is dedicated to producing a variety of products that can be used in marine, land and industrial environments to clean up oil spills and ensure a greener future.  

Available in industry-standard sized pillows, socks, booms along with custom sizes, Green Boom’s products are made from patent-pending biomass up-cycling technologies that use sustainably sourced agricultural wastes and textiles. Led by a team with broad chemical engineering experience, Green Boom created a technology that converts renewable, biodegradable and low-value agricultural materials into water-repellent, oil-only absorbents.


“The team at Green Boom is excited to introduce products that will have a positive impact on the industry and the environment,” said Green Boom Co-Founder Sharma. “Through our research and development, we believe that our revolutionary products are going to disrupt the oil spill industry.”

The numerous Green Boom benefits include:

Water Repellent - Water cannot pass through the water-repellent skin.

Rapid Absorption - Fast-wicking materials reduce clean up time and labor.

Absorbs Oil Only - Without absorbing a drop of water.

100 percent Biomass - Both the absorbent skin and filler are made from 100 percent natural fibers - zero plastic.

Tough Skin - Absorbent skin that won’t tear or shred during rough handling, unlike typical polypropylene absorbents.

Biodegradable - Our absorbents will biodegrade over time, unlike typical polypropylene absorbents.

Oil Degrading Microbes - Microbes can be added to “eat” the absorbed oil; this can save on disposal costs depending on your cleanup project and location.

These products were developed through extensive research of current plastic products, which showed an area ripe for displacement. Polypropylene is a commodity plastic used in consumer goods. In the oil cleanup space, melt-blown polypropylene is used for oil-only absorption applications. This is primarily due to the natural water-repellency offered by polypropylene and existing manufacturing infrastructure.

Dr. Sudhir Sharma is the Co-Founder & CEO of Green Boom Corp. After witnessing the devastating effect oil spills have on the environment, he sought a better and greener clean up solution. Sudhir’s work now focuses on identifying and engaging with various suppliers, manufacturers, and warehousing facilities to set up manufacturing, supply chain, as well as operations. Sudhir has published multiple peer-reviewed scientific articles with numerous collaborations and has won awards for his research and conference presentations. Prior to Green Boom, he was Co-Founder & CTO of Ipsum Nano, a nanotechnology company created from post-doctoral research done at Georgia Tech. He was part of a team that was awarded NSF SBIR and GRA grants totaling nearly $500,000. Sudhir holds an MS and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where his work focused on heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering and cellulosic nanomaterials. He also earned a B.E. with First Class Honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Auckland, where his thesis work focused on reaction engineering. He led the university’s team to the international ChemECar competition where they placed second overall.

Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on ALT 105.7 and iHeartRadio - 5/4/19 - Atlanta's Top Social Media Locations

Atlanta is a social media MECCA

Where are Instagram and social media snaps being taken?

Rick and Sully discuss:

1. The Jackson Street Bridge

The Jackson Street Bridge, Jackson St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, is one of the most iconic locations in Atlanta, because of its panoramic view of Atlanta’s skyline. You might have seen its view on AMC’s show “The Walking Dead” or scrolling down your Instagram feed. From the bridge, located in the Historic Old Fourth Ward, you can spot Atlanta’s prominent skyscrapers, such as SunTrust Plaza and Bank of America Plaza.
 

2.   Lenox Mall

Various places inside and out of Lenox. Selections at Urban Outfitters or Zara prove to be popular.

 
3. Atlanta Botanical Gardens

The grounds of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta, GA 30309, is an expansive space filled with spots to take a breathtaking photo. Take your pick of its many gardens, such as the Japanese Garden, Rose Garden and Skyline Garden. Plant sculptures, like the Earth Goddess, also photograph beautifully.


4.  Atlanta Sign  outside State Farm Arena

The Hawks may stink, but the Atlanta sign being in the background is a popular picture location in the ATL.

 
5. THE MUSIC ROOM BOOMBOX DOORS

327 Edgewood Ave SE. Atlanta, GA 30312

 

6. The Big Chicken

Found in Marietta – north of Atlanta – The Big Chicken has been a roadside icon for more than 50 years. Constructed in 1963, this 56ft-tall steel structure, atop a KFC, is at Cobb Parkway and Roswell Road. Recent renovations have given the location new life. Night or sunset (after the lights are turned on) is the best time to capture it.

Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on ALT 105.7 and iHeartRadio - 2/16/19 - Rick's Two Events this Week

Rick attended two big events in Atlanta this week.

The Technology Association of Georgia "Summit"
and
The Oracle Grow Live - Netsuite event with Magic Johnson

Rick and Sully talk about some of the topics at these two great events

 

1. TAG is the Technology Association of Georgia
www.tagonline.org

Their "Summit" is their biggest event each year.

So each year, the state’s tech community gathers at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Cobb County to celebrate and take a look at where the business of technology is heading in Georgia.

The Summit brings together and engages more than 1,200 prominent technology, business and thought leaders centered around the most prominent and relevant trends that are sparking, disrupting and driving innovation today through the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) — one of the country’s largest technology associations with 34,000+ members.

Summit Day is an invitation to engage with the tech community! It provides an opportunity to learn, meet, and discover new ways for your company to get involved, develop relationships, and identify potential partnerships. The Summit allows you to ‘be in the know’ on who is leading the industry in innovation and inspiring what’s next in technology.

The Summit showcased nationally recognized speakers, trending content sessions, the newest inductee into the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia, and Georgia’s most innovative tech companies revolutionizing business. Attendees will also have an opportunity to demo the latest technology and interact with TAG’s 27 tech professional societies for ways to get plugged into what’s happening in the Georgia tech market. Keynotes were delivered by Tiffani Bova and Guy Kawasaki.
   
 
2.   Awards Given Away this week:

Top 10 and Top 40 Innovative Companies of Georgia
Companies selected as the “Top 10” and “Top 40” Innovative companies are showcased at The Summit, including an opportunity for the “Top 10” to address the Summit’s attendees.

“Top 40” recognition is awarded based on specific criteria focused on innovation, including:
degree of innovation
scope and financial impact of innovation
likelihood of success
promotion of Georgia's innovative efforts nationally and internationally

3. Highlights of the Summit and reports released

Georgia continues to be a top technology employment market
Georgia's technology sector grew significantly faster than the US average and employs nearly 300,000 private sector tech employees
Technology wages in the state have continued to increase – up 2.6% over last year, which is more than the increase seen from 2016 to 2017
Capital invested in Georgia remained high - and the total number of deals was the second highest since the report began tracking in 2012
 

4. Magic Johnson in town for Oracle Netsuite
www.netsuite.com

Grow Beyond!

For more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organizations grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides a suite of cloud-based applications, which includes financials, along with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce. It’s one-stop shopping for businesses all over the world.

Netsuite is always being optimized for “what’s coming next.” New themes, new extensions and new ways to track sales and merchandise where introduced recently.
 

5. The Wisdom of Magic

Magic has been more than successful as he's made the transition from the basketball court to the boardroom.
He is involved in many successful business ventures.

Johnson may have retired from the National Basketball Association in 1991, but he says he needed to start his own business but lacked the knowledge. The key, he said, was getting mentors.

Atlanta played a key role in Johnson’r business success. He started off by leveraging on the spending power of African Americans who spend a trillion dollars a year. His first venture, after putting up Magic Johnson Enterprises, was investing in movie theaters.

“Our first movie theater ended up topping revenue for its opening weekend and was one of the highest grossing in the business.”

6. Magic on Teamwork, Building his Brand

He touched on his basketball career, what it takes to build a team and how he loves to hire and work with young people since they have fresh ideas and a glimpse into the future.

Other tidbits from Johnson included his philosophy on creating brand ambassadors by overserving and he told a great story about how he landed his first Disney contract.

Limpert Tech "SullyCast" on Radio 105.7 and iHeartRadio NASCAR and Unplugging

NASCAR invades Atlanta this weekend and that means new tech will be on display at the track. Both for drivers and fans.

There is racing everyday this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway leading up to Sunday's Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500.

For more information about the 2017 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Weekend or to purchase tickets today, contact the Atlanta Motor Speedway ticket office at (770) 946-4211, (877) 9-AMS-TIX or visit www.atlantamotorspeedway.com.

Have a listen to Rick and Sully:

1.  Ford

For 2017, Ford Performance will field seven Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series organizations featuring 13teams.

Driving Ford Fusions for the first time this year are Stewart-Haas Racing drivers Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Clint Bowyer and Danica Patrick. Harvick won the series title in 2014 while Busch was the last Ford driver to win the series’ championship, in 2004 with what is now Roush Fenway Racing.

The Ford Performance Technical Support Center was up and running prior to the formation of the Ford Performance program – it opened in the summer of ’14 - and it has been an integral part of developing not only Ford’s racing efforts, but the company’s production vehicles as well.

Housed in Concord, N.C., the 33,000-square-foot building features a full-motion simulator that allows teams to ferret through various track-specific setups, obtain a better understanding of changes made to their race cars and be in position to fine tune those setups once they arrive at the track. It’s the next-best thing to being on track, and there’s never an issue with weather.

For drivers, use of the simulator has also helped shorten the learning curve for those going to a track for the first time, while helping others reacquaint themselves with different venues.
 

2. Repairs in the Pits

NASCAR will not allow teams to repair crash damage in the garage. Teams will get five minutes on pit road after the crash -- timed from when they hit the yellow line at pit road entry to when they exit pit road on pit-road exit -- to fix cars and will not be allowed to replace body panels or pieces.

Teams will be able to add supports, brackets, beat out fenders and body panels and use tape and Bondo to make repairs. If they can't get up to minimum speed without coming back down pit road once they have used their five minutes, they are done for the day.
 

3. Atlanta's Fan Experience Center

Also new to AMS in 2017, the Fan Experience Center will serve as the main hub for all things race weekend to enhance the at-track experience for fans attending the race. Beyond the wealth of information available for inquiring fans, the Fan Experience Center, located in the Fan Zone, will live up to its name with a full-size replica flag stand, an interactive 10-foot-tall banking display mimicking the angle of AMS’s 24-degree turns, a gallery of iconic moments in AMS history, and of course, an interactive selfie station.

4. Fans on Victory Lane on the Frontstretch

For the first time since Jeff Gordon scored his 85th career victory at AMS in 2011, fans will be able to experience the Victory Lane celebration up close and personal, as Sunday’s post-race festivities move back to the frontstretch in 2017. Once the checkered flag flies for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, the winning car and driver will return to the start/finish line, the new home for Sunday’s Victory Lane, where fans will be allowed onto the track surface to see and hear the celebration firsthand. Think of the social media hits!

 
5. A Mention of March 3-4 being... National Day of Unplugging, from sundown to sundown – a great movement to unplug for 24 hours and reconnect with people and the world around you. The value of offline discovery is largely what inspired the creation of the Screen Time app. Screen Time is an app parents can use... to monitor and regulate their kids online usage.
www.screentimelabs.com

When families download the app, which offers a free 14-day trial, Screen Time recommends starting with a family conversation about screen time, with the parent-child pact (attached). This gives kids insights into why offline discovery is important to their health and wellbeing, while also giving young people a chance to have input. Everyone gets on the same page, and everyone agrees to be subject to the same tech etiquette and household rules.

My Appearance on WGST's "The Sully Show" 5/30/14 Talking Tech Topics and More

Current tech topics

Rick with all of the tech news of the week...   including Blackberry since Sully wants that

Have a listen:

listen to ‘The Sully Show May 30, 2014’ on Audioboo

Change your eBay Password

If you have an eBay account and haven't changed your password since May 21, you should do so today.
There was a big security and data breech at eBay and they have been advising everyone to change their password.

It's official - Apple buys Beats

It's not really about the headphones, it's about streaming music and what a big industry that is becoming.

Google Working on Tablets With Enhanced Vision Capabilities

Could be used for 2 purposes - will capture and allow you see 3D and complex images on a tablet as well as helping visually impaired.

Google is working to create some 4,000 prototypes of advanced mobile tablet devices equipped with features that will allow users to view complex 3D objects on their screens.

The development of the futuristic tablets, which are allegedly slated to begin production sometime in June, was reported May 22 by The Wall Street Journal, based on information from sources who had been briefed on Google's activities. The tablets will be equipped with 7-inch screens and include two rear cameras, infrared depth sensors and software that will render the three-dimensional images, the story reported,

Such a phone could be used, according to Project Tango, with apps that could use the camera to offer guidance to the visually impaired or even apps that use the camera to show shoppers how the furniture in a catalog would literally fit in their living rooms. Other potential apps could even scan a room in a home to create a virtual game world within it, or offer directions that don't stop at the front door of an office.

LG to announce New Ultra Widescreen Display

"Forget about 4K displays, are Ultra Widescreen 'cinematic' displays the real deal? Earlier this year LG announced its new 34UM95 – a 34-inch Ultra Widescreen monitor with a cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio and a generous 3440 x1440 resolution — a recent hands-on review suggests that this monitor might be the new productivity king, for those who simply can't stand that annoying bezel between their multiple monitors."

The  LG 34UM95 – a 34 inch Ultra Widescreen monitor with a “cinematic” 21:9 aspect ratio and a generous 3440 x1440 resolution is perfect for editing pictures and those long videos.
 

Redbox to get rid of 500 rental kiosks

Do you rent from Redbox. Redbox has more that 40,000 kiosks around the country.
To say there are a lot of Redbox kiosks is an understatement. Almost 70 million Americans currently live within a five mile drive of a Redbox kiosk. You probably walk by a Redbox kiosk more than once a day.

They are located inside or outside grocery stores, gas stations, drug stores, and even restaurants.

A Redbox kiosk only takes up about 12-square feet of retail space and they hold about 630 movie and game discs.

By the end of 2014, the company will uninstall more than 500 of it's DVD/Blu-ray machines.

Will you notice a difference?

Probably not.
There will still be well over 40,000 Redbox kiosks to serve your needs.

Redbox is running out of locations to put new machines and with any business, current spots that are underperforming are the ones that are up for elimination.

Redbox is also looking to renegotiate their deals with movie studios by the end of the year. Redbox has been hurt by some of their current deals which don't give them access to movies until they have been on retailer's shelves for a couple weeks.

Redbox is also fighting the tough batter against streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. While many are used to Redbox's $1-per day rental service, the times are a changing.

While Redbox Instant, Redbox's attempt at a streaming service hasn't really taken hold, there is some room for growth. To attract customers and subscribers to "Instant," Redbox is offering bonuses like rental credits.