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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:18px;text-align:-webkit-left">This month, aimWest will have a new event format called </span><strong style="font-size:15px;line-height:18px;text-align:-webkit-left">New Tech Meetup</strong><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:18px;text-align:-webkit-left">. Five local companies and individuals will talk about their cool new tech. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to discuss their exciting new technology followed by 5 minutes of Q/A.</span></font><br>
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Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM<br>Subject: aimWest June Event: West MI New Tech Meetup<br>To: Casey <<a href="mailto:casey@grlug.org">casey@grlug.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<strong style="font-family:Verdana">Wednesday, June 19th, 2013</strong><br>
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This month, aimWest will have a new event format called <strong>New Tech Meetup</strong>. Five local companies and individuals will talk about their cool new tech. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to discuss their exciting new technology followed by 5 minutes of Q/A.</font></p>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><strong>Joe Johnston – </strong><a href="http://aimwest.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=070e09bdfdb01078ca26807a1&id=3085adece8&e=fa9b431191" style="color:rgb(247,147,30);text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" title="Universal Mind" target="_blank"><em>Universal Mind</em></a><br>
Hot off winning the iPad Table won the People’s Voice Webby in the Experimental & Innovation category in 17th Annual Webby Awards. Universal Minds iPad table explores what’s possible when 15 iPads are set up as a table and controlled by an iPhone application.</font></p>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><strong>Daniel Morrison – </strong><a href="http://aimwest.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=070e09bdfdb01078ca26807a1&id=d0eb14032e&e=fa9b431191" style="color:rgb(247,147,30);text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" title="Downside App" target="_blank"><em>Collective Idea</em></a><br>
Downside is an iOS social game that encourages you to ignore your phone and talk to the people around you.</font></p>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><strong>Ben Lambert – </strong><a href="http://aimwest.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=070e09bdfdb01078ca26807a1&id=abc5eba3ba&e=fa9b431191" style="color:rgb(247,147,30);text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" title="Be Bert" target="_blank"><em>be-bert.com</em></a><br>
Inspired by classic puzzle games like Tetris and Dr. Mario, Hungry Munchers is a simple, quick, and challenging game for everyone (regardless of how many stomachs you have).</font></p>
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A home for our local Mad-Scientists and makers, GRMakers will share a neat industries project being built within GR’s newest Maker Space.</font></p>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><strong>Paul Kortman – </strong><a href="http://aimwest.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=070e09bdfdb01078ca26807a1&id=500075e881&e=fa9b431191" style="color:rgb(247,147,30);text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal" title="Thing Share" target="_blank"><em>ThingShare</em></a><br>
A platform for sharing tools and things focused on bringing the sharing economy to the maker movement.</font></p>
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