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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 481580, 10 pages
Physical Activity Recognition Utilizing the Built-In Kinematic Sensors of a Smartphone
The Key Lab for Health Informatics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
Received 7 December 2012; Revised 27 February 2013; Accepted 12 March 2013
Academic Editor: Shijian Li
Copyright © 2013 Yi He and Ye Li. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Physical activity (PA) recognition has recently become important in activity monitoring for the public healthcare. Although body-worn sensors are well suited to collect data on activity patterns for long periods of time, users may forget to wear special microsensors. On the contrary, more and more people take smartphone with them almost anytime. At present, most popular smartphones have three built-in kinematic sensors (triaccelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic sensor) which could be utilized to recognize PA. This study utilized three built-in kinematic sensors in a smartphone to recognize PA and found out which features derived from the three sensors were significant to different PA. We used a combined algorithm of Fisher's discriminant ratio criterion and criterion for feature selection. A hierarchical classifiers system including fourteen classifiers was proposed and employed to recognize fifteen activities. The optimal features derived from the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone were selected from 140 features. The results indicated that the accelerometer was significant to PA recognition, while gyroscope and orientation sensor were effective to recognize the change of body posture and detect falls, respectively. The total classification accuracy of 95.03% demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone to recognize PA.
1. Introduction
Physical activity (PA) recognition has recently become important in activity monitoring for the public healthcare. The progressive decline in the PA level due to the adoption of sedentary lifestyles has been associated with the increasing incidence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases [1, 2]. In addition, a "long lie" caused by a fall may result in negative psychological and physical outcomes [3]. The fear of falling can lead to a further decrease of physical activity. Thus, a reliable PA recognition system in daily life would not only encourage people to do more outdoor activities but also be an assessment of activities of daily living for chronic treatment.
Body-worn sensors [4, 5] are well suited to collecting data on activity patterns for long periods of time. In contrast to other approaches, such as laboratory-based systems [6] or video analysis [7, 8], they can be used under conditions of free living with minimal inconvenience to the user [9]. However, users may forget to wear these special microsensors. At present, smartphone is a fast-growing device which people take with it anytime. Most of state-of-the-art smartphones have the built-in kinematic sensors (such as triaccelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic sensor), Global Positioning System (GPS), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, camera, proximity sensor, microphone, and so forth.
The built-in kinematic sensors of smartphones are used to recognize PA, which not only reduces the cost of hardware but also exploits existing communication module and ubiquitous monitor. The previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of using a smartphone to detect a fall [10]. Acceleration was measured by two devices, a smartphone and an independent accelerometer, to confirm that fall detection using a smartphone is a feasible and highly attractive technology.
Most of the previous studies [10–12] only used accelerometers to research PA recognition. In our earlier study [13], we also utilized accelerometer built in a smartphone to detect falls and raised the alarm by Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). However, acceleration only reflects the change of PA in linear acceleration, but angular velocity and orientation information were not reflected by an accelerometer.
There are several studies using the combination of accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic sensor. Zhang et al. [14] evaluated a continuous activity recognition system, using three small wearable wireless sensors and a smartphone to store, transmit, analyze, and update data. Three sensors, each composed of a triaxial accelerometer and a triaxial gyroscope, are attached to the chest and both thighs. The recognition algorithm was developed using a decision tree based on time series data and spectrum analysis. Bahle et al. [15] found a particularly interesting result that adding the magnetic disturbance features significantly improves recognition based on the vector norm of accelerometers and gyroscopes. Chiang et al. [16] measured essential movements of human body through wireless sensor network body motion sensors that involve the accelerometer and gyroscope. Activities are recognized by the fuzzy algorithm. Jeannet et al. [17] used a monitor containing a 3D accelerometer and a gyroscope fixed on the subject's tee-shirt, on the chest. Multiple sensors systems could identify physical activity in a more refined way by recognizing subactivities such as jogging or rowing, due to the fact that a bigger amount of information on the body motion can be collected. However, the more the sensors were employed to record physical activity, the higher the interference of the measuring system with the spontaneous behavior of the user [18]. Therefore, the development of simple, small and light-weight systems to monitor physical activity in daily life should be recommended.
The aims of this study were to utilize the built-in kinematic sensors (triaccelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetic sensor) of a smartphone to recognize PA and find out which features derived from the built-in kinematic sensors were significant to recognize PA. This work will make the assessment of activities of daily living and fall detection more ubiquitous and portable.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 provides the method of the PA recognition. The experimental results and discussion are presented in Sections 3 and 4. Finally, Section 5 concludes the paper.
2. Methods
The block diagram of the main data processing scheme was described in Figure 1. The built-in accelerometer, gyroscope, and the orientation sensor of a smartphone collected information which reflected acceleration, angular velocity, and orientation of PA. And then features were extracted from the information, and the optimal features were selected. Subsequently, all activities were classified, and if a fall was detected, the alarm information about the location of the fall would be sent to the preset person by MMS.
2.1. Device and Data Collection
A smartphone (Samsung I9023 Nexus S, mm, 129 g, Android operating system version 2.3.6, Samsung, Korea) was placed inside an adjustable band attached to the chest of a subject, as shown in Figure 2. The activity recognition system requires firm attachment of the smartphone to the subject.
The smartphone has built-in triaxial accelerometer (STM KR3DM) with 19.6 m/s2 maximum range and 0.019 m/s2 resolution, triaxial gyroscope sensor (STM K3G) with 34.9 rad/s maximum range and 0.0012 rad/s resolution, and triaxial magnetic field sensor (Asahi Kasei AK8973) with 2000 μT maximum range and 0.0625 μT resolution. An application software of PA recognition was developed and installed on the smartphone. This application measured the acceleration, angular velocity, and orientation of the smartphone.
The standard sensor coordinate system of the smartphone is defined relative to the screen. As shown in Figure 2, the -axis () is horizontal and points to the right. The -axis () is vertical and points up, and the -axis () points toward the outside of the screen. The , , and of smartphone are according to the mediolateral, vertical, and dorsoventral directions of the subject, respectively.
The coordinate system of the accelerometer is the same as the standard sensor coordinate system. The accelerometer measures acceleration along (), (), and (), respectively. The low pass filter with 0.25 Hz cutoff frequency was employed to separate acceleration force to gravity acceleration (GA) and linear acceleration (LA). So was separated into and , the same as and .
The coordinate system of the gyroscope is the same as the one used for the accelerometer. Rotation is positive in the counterclockwise direction. Gyroscope measures the rate of rotation around (), the rate of rotation around (), and the rate of rotation around () in radian/s.
The orientation sensor is software-based and derives its data from the accelerometer and the geomagnetic field sensor. The orientation sensor monitors the position of the smartphone relative to the earth's frame of reference and measures azimuth (), pitch (), and roll (). is the angle between magnetic north of the earth and the positive of the smartphone. When is aligned with magnetic north, the value is 0, and when is pointing south, the value is 180. is the angle between the horizontal plane of the earth and the positive . is positive when the positive rotates toward the positive , and the range of values is from 90 degrees to −90 degrees. is the angle between the horizontal plane of the earth and the positive . is positive when the positive rotates toward the positive , and the range of values is from 180 degrees to −180 degrees.
In Android operating system, four different sampling frequencies (fastest, game, normal, and UI) of sensors can be selected. The values of the four frequencies are not constant and depend on the computational workload of the smartphone. The fastest sampling frequency is selected and can reach 50 Hz normally. The acceleration, gyroscope, and orientation signals were sampled at 25 Hz and stored on a Secure Digital (SD) card in the smartphone. Table 1 showed the descriptions of activities performed by a subject. Ten healthy volunteers (6 males, age: years, body mass index (BMI): kg/m2 and 4 females, age: years, BMI: kg/m2) participated in the study.
2.2. Feature Extraction
The sliding window approach was employed to divide the sensor signal into smaller time windows (Figure 3). At a sampling frequency of 25 Hz, each window with 50% overlap represents 1.6 seconds. The features were extracted from the sliding windows signals for activity recognition. (1) Signal Magnitude Vector is the signal magnitude vector of linear acceleration. can be represented as Likewise, and have used the same computational method. (2) Tilt angle (TA) of body trunk TA is defined as the angle between the positive and the gravitational vector, as follows: Twenty signals derived from the acceleration, angular velocity, and orientation are listed as follows: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and TA.
As shown in Table 2, seven kinds of statistical features were defined and described. And all statistical features of each signal were calculated at each window. So 140 features were extracted from the acceleration, angular velocity, and orientation measured by the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone. represents the average value of over the window, and the remaining 139 features are defined similarly (Table 3).
2.3. Feature Selection and Classification
A combined algorithm of Fisher's discriminant ratio (FDR) criterion and criterion was used for feature selection [19]. Firstly, normalize the features to have zero mean and unit variance. Then the features were ranked by the scalar feature selection, which employs FDR criterion and a cross-correlation measurement between pairs of features. FDR is commonly employed to quantify the discriminatory power of individual features between two classes. The FDR is defined as where , are the mean values of features and , are the standard deviation of features in the two classes, respectively.
Then the 10 highest-ranked features were selected. And the exhaustive search method with the criterion was employed to select the best combination of two features. The criterion is done by the following equations: where is the within-class scatter matrix and is the between-class scatter matrix. The respective definitions are where denotes the a priori probability of th class Ci and is the respective covariance matrix of class Ci. Moreover, is the global mean vector.
Furthermore, large values of indicate that classifiers have small within-class variance and large between-class distance.
A hierarchical classifiers system was shown in Figure 4. According to level of intensity of physical activity, Classifier 1 was used to differentiate between static and dynamic activity. Likewise, Classifier 3 and Classifier 7 utilized the level intensity of activity to recognize high level of intensity of physical activities, such as falls, jumping, and running. In addition, Classifier 2 employed tilt angle (TA) of body trunk derived from accelerometers to identify lying from sitting/standing.
Moreover, Classifier 5 was employed to classify jumping and falls. Falls are said to have occurred if at least two consecutive peaks in the signal magnitude vector above a defined threshold are recorded [20]. According to the orientation, falls were divided into the categories of right-side fall (FR), left-side fall (FL), backward fall (FB), or forward fall (FF).
Furthermore, there were no obvious features to classify some certain activities, such as walking, walking downstairs and walking upstairs. In a classifier, all possible combinations splitting the activities were exhaustively formed, and for each combination its value was calculated. The combination with the largest value was chosen to be the scheme of Classifier 6. Likewise, Classifiers 4, 10 used the same method to choose the combination. Fourteen classifiers for two classes were employed to recognize fifteen activities.
3. Results
3.1. The Features Selected
The scatter graphs of part classifiers were shown in Figure 5. The symbols of pluses and circles indicated points into the two classes of classifiers, respectively. In addition, Figure 5 pointed out the combinations of selected features resulted in well separated classes in the 2-dimensional feature space.
As shown in Table 4, twenty-eight well selected features for fourteen classifiers included nineteen features derived from accelerometer, six features derived from gyroscope and three derived from the orientation sensor.
In these three sensors, accelerometer was dominant to PA recognition. In addition, gyroscope served well in recognizing the change of body posture such as transitions, and the orientation sensor was effective to detect falls. As illustrated in Figure 6, can be used to distinguish between forward fall and backward fall. Likewise, can be used to distinguish between left-side fall and right-side fall.
3.2. The Application of PA Recognition in the Smartphone
Figure 6 illustrated the application of PA recognition implemented in the smartphone when a subject changed the motion from motionless to walking. The green line indicated the SVM value of the accelerometer in real time. Five common activities (jumping, running, walking, lying, and motionless) can be represented by the blue line.
3.3. The Recognition Results for All Activities
We used hold-out method [21] to estimate the classifiers, which partitions the data into two mutually exclusive subsets: a training set and a test set. A set of experiments was performed with 10 subjects, with each performing a set of 16 different activities as described in Table 1. 600 windows were randomly divided into two parts: a training set (400 samples) and a test set (200 samples).
The confusion matrix in Table 5 was a representative of recognition errors for the test set. From the confusion matrix, we can see that walking may be misclassified as walking upstairs or walking downstairs, because these activities contain similar movements and frequencies at the lower limbs. In addition, falls may be recognized as sit-to-lie, because the posture of the two activities were lying at last. The accuracies of static, transitions, dynamic, and falls were 98.75%, 94.625%, 91.8%, and 97.63%, respectively. A total recognition rate of 95.03% achieved that our proposed PA recognition system based on the smartphone could accomplish high recognition rates for the fifteen activities. The application of PA recognition was displayed in Figure 7. The green line indicated the SVM value of the accelerometer real time, and the blue line presented the PA.
4. Discussion
A PA recognition system based on a smartphone was developed. The optimal features derived from the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone were selected from 140 features for each classifier.
In the previous studies [22, 23], the recognition rates of walking, walking upstairs, and walking downstairs were low, caused by the similarity of these three activities (Figure 8). In this study, the three classes were well separated. Figure 9 presented the scatter graphs of three activities (walking, walking upstairs, and walking downstairs), employing a combination of Std, Std, and Std. Pluses, circles, and dots indicated points from walking, walking upstairs, and walking downstairs, respectively.
The PA recognition system based on the smartphone provided several advantages, such as existing communication module and ubiquitous monitor. The previous studies have used Short Messaging Service (SMS)[10] or Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) [13] to send information of a fall to a guardian. In an earlier study, we warned falls of the elderly to a guardian by MMS including time, map of suspected fall location, and GPS coordinate. When a fall was detected, an automatic MMS would be sent to preset people. According to the convenient communication module of smartphones, more information of PA could be sent in real time. A remote PA recognition system based on a private cloud platform [24] will be developed in our future work.
The main limitation of our approach is that the smartphone must be worn on the chest. People put phones in the pocket of shirts or pants according to their respective habits, which would cause loose attachment between the body and smartphone resulting in the invalidness of the algorithm eventually. Khan et al. [25] used linear discriminant analysis to recognize PA based on a single triaxial accelerometer that allowed subjects to carry the sensor freely in any pocket without firm attachment. In future work, we plan to develop a PA recognition system based on a smartphone according to wearing habits of users.
5. Conclusion
For this study, the optimal features derived from the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone were selected to recognize PA. The results of selected features suggested the accelerometer was significant to PA recognition, and gyroscope and orientation sensor were effective to recognize the change of body posture or detect falls, respectively. Despite the limitations of this system which requires firm attachment of the smartphone to a subject, the experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing the built-in kinematic sensors of the smartphone to recognize PA.
This work was supported in part by the National S&T Major Project of China (no. 2011ZX03005-001), Guangdong Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Project (no. 2011A090100025), and National Natural Science Foundation of Youth Science Foundation (no. 31000447).
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Reminder: Killing Bernie Madoff Not Actually a Good Idea
The violent tone cropping up regarding Bernie Madoff is creeping us out a little.
When Bernie Madoff swanned into court yesterday in a little Kevlar number, we weren't exactly surprised. The financier's $50 billion Ponzi scheme wiped out numerous old people, businesses, and charities, and there are bound to be a few crazies who might want to exact a little vigilante justice to earn the heart of Kevin Bacon. Madoff's already reportedly received a few threats. But we are surprised, and creeped out by, the violent tone that seems to be cropping up in the discourse of non-crazies. Such as this choice quip New York securities lawyer Howard Sirota gave to Bloomberg today: "I'd love to put a hatchet in Bernie Madoff's head, and I know there are other Jews who feel that way."
Also, the Cityfile folks have made a Madoff-shaped target, "if you happen to be a gun enthusiast," for um, practice; and this morning's Post also carried a nice big picture of trader Clark Landis's sign, which he held in front of Madoff's apartment building yesterday, urging him to "Do the right thing: Jump!"
Before we all get carried away here, let us remind everyone that stuff like this is not only unfunny and barbaric, it's actually stupid. Jumping is not the right thing for Madoff to do: He needs to be alive, or else how will the Feds extract whatever investor money he has stashed around the globe? Anyway, all told, wouldn't it be better if, in the end, he was left to wander along the dusty African plains, clad in sagging adult diapers, like Mobutu after he was exiled from the Congo? Let's just refocus our anger on that scenario, okay? Use the Secret. Put it out into the Universe. There. That's better.


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Looking for a one-of-a-kind baby shower theme? One adorable way to celebrate a new baby joining the family is to throw a nursery rhyme-inspired shower! Children's rhymes are filled with fun characters and plenty of inspiration for decorations, games and snacks. Pear Tree Greetings has a creative collection of nursery rhyme-inspired baby shower invitations, thank you cards, stickers and address labels from which to choose. Here are a few ways you can incorporate this theme into your baby shower plans:
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It cannot be stressed enough how important breast cancer screening is for women. In Quebec we have had cases of mammogram readings that were erroneous leaving women thinking that they did not have breast cancer when they did. Unfortunately, the cancer was detected it was too late for some of these women.
As a woman it is important that you go for your routine checkup and make sure that the doctor examines your breast for lumps. If you do have a lump do not accept that it is nothing if your doctor should say that, insist on cancer screening. It could mean the difference between life and death.
The same holds true for other forms of cancer as well. Do not put off getting your regular pap smear. Sometimes women don't always have symptoms when the cancer is in its infancy and beyond.
Warning signs for possible breast cancer
lumps in the breast
nipple discharge
"Dimpling of the skin over the breast, particularly if it looks like the skin on an orange, "is something to be worried about," Karlan says. Such dimpling is most often linked to inflammatory breast cancer, a rare, usually aggressive cancer characterized also by swollen, hot, red breasts."
Sign of other forms of cancer
Vaginal bleeding
If you have been experiencing Irregular vaginal bleeding if you are postmenopausal. Even stains and drops are not normal and could be a symptom of endometriosis or cervical cancer.
Rectal bleeding
Though rectal bleeding can be from hemorrhoids it might be colon cancer which is the third most common cancers in women.
Smelly discharge
Foul smelling discharge can be a symptom of cervical cancer.
Ovarian cancer is known as the silent killer because of the absence of alarming symptoms. It is also the most common reproductive cancer in women.
Other symptoms for ovarian cancer can be feeling full after eating less than you normally do, urinating more frequently, lower back or pelvic pain.
As you can clearly see this symptoms do not appear that alarming and actually may be caused by something entirely different but it is best to have it checked out.
Weight gain and weight loss
If you are not dieting and your eating habits have not changed, unexpected weight loss can be related to pancreatic, stomach, esophagus, or lung cancer. Gaining weight on a monthly basis could be a sign of ovarian cancer.
Persistent cough
A persistent cough can be many things such as an infection, it can also be caused by smoking or inhaling secondhand smoke, therefore these symptoms can be linked to lung cancer.
Lymph nodes
We already know that swollen lymph nodes in the breast could be an indicator of breast cancer, however lymph nodes in the head, neck and breast can be an indication that the head, neck, and breast cancer has already spread.
Unusual fatigue which is remedied by a good night's sleep can be a symptom of many disorders. It should not be overlooked and a visit to the doctor is recommended. Unusual fatigue could be linked to stomach cancer, colon cancer, or leukemia.
Skin changes
Sores in the mouth that don't heal could be a sign of oral cancer. Moles can be melanoma and a sore in the vagina that does not heal can be a sign of vulvar cancer.
The bottom line is that not every difference happening in your body will be a result of cancer; but, being vigilant about the changes in your body and following up with a doctor may save your life.
Early diagnosis has beaten cancer and saved the lives of many women. Make sure you do not delay and see your doctor immediately if you have a gut feeling or a sign that something may be wrong.


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Riverside, Calif. (March 8, 2006) - The ETSU women's tennis team continued their winning ways, defeating the University of California-Riverside, 5-2. The Lady Bucs are now 10-2 on the season while the Lady Highlanders fall to 3-9 with the loss.
Action began when Olya Batsula (
The Lady Buccaneers again dominated the singles action, winning four of the six sets, with all of the victories coming in straight sets. In No. 4 singles Tara Byrne defeated Catrisha Cabanilla, 6-1, 6-3. Senior Sylwia Ziolkowska defeated Bethany Brendon, 6-1, 6-3 in No. 5 singles. In the No. 6 position, Vita Moskaliova (
"It was good to get our first match in, good to get a win in our first match our here in California," said head coach Steve Brooks, "the weather was a lot different here, a lot more windy and balls are slower. We were challenged by ourselves more than anything,
The ETSU women's tennis team will return to action tomorrow, March 9 against the
No. 1- Casey Cross (UCR) def. Masha Ilina (ETSU) 5-7, 6-3, 10-8
No. 2- Olya Batsula (ETSU) def. Yasaman Sakhakorn (UCR) 6-3, 6-4
No. 3- H.R. Espiritu (UCR) def. Sandie Knight (ETSU) 6-3, 6-1
No. 4- Tara Byrne (ETSU) def. Catrisha Cabanilla (UCR) 6-1, 6-3
No. 5- Sylwia Ziolkowska (ETSU) def. Bethany Brendon (UCR) 6-1, 6-3
No. 6- Vita Moskaliova (ETSU) def. Colette Chau (UCR) 6-2, 6-3
No. 1- Batsula/Byrne (ETSU) def. Cross/Oki (UCR) 8-5
No. 2- Knight/Ilina (ETSU) def. Espiritu/Yoshimoto (UCR) 8-4
No. 3- Ziolkowska/Volobueva (ETSU) def. Sakhakorn/Cabanilla (UCR) 8-4


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Owners say slow recovery of housing market makes two more years crucial for continued development
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Cheney Community Development Department
A map of the plat of the entire Golden Hills development is shown above. The fourth addition receiving the extension is outlined in bold, however the extension also applies to the third addition located above and wrapping around to the west.
Owners of the final two phases of Cheney's Golden Hills subdivision will get an additional two more years to finish a project that began almost nine years ago and has helped expand the city's northern residential boundary.
Cheney planning commissioners unanimously approved a preliminary plat extension for Golden Hills Fourth Addition at their regular meeting Monday night, Sept. 9. The hilly, 8.15-acre site is one of two plats located north of the current second addition straddling Golden Hills Drive. Originally one plat, Cheney planner Brett Lucas told the commission that it was split i...
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There's an interesting story making rounds today in the Linda McMahon for Senate campaign. Campaign rival Christopher Shays is making bribing accusations against Linda McMahon as Republican Town Committee chairman John Slater was ringside at Wrestlemania XXVIII in Miami and publicly endorsed McMahon a month later.
"I find it interesting that John Slater went to WrestleMania in Miami, and soon after he returned came out and endorsed Linda McMahon," said Amanda Bergen of the Shays campaign.
Slater has denied the accusations, claiming he attended the show on his own dime and sent a photo of his bank statement and ticket stub for the event to the Greenwich Time. According to the materials sent to the publication, Slater paid $355 for a central rise seat at Wrestlemania. Slater officially endorsed McMahon on May 8th.
"If they're insinuating a bribe, which I can prove never happened, that's totally wrong," Slater told Greenwich Time. "If that's the road that his campaign is now taking, it shows another reason why not to vote for him, because it's a lie."
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Web 2.0 Expo: Twitter is the "Canary in the Coal Mine"
One of the most packed presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Wednesday was about how businesses should – and shouldn't – go about using micro-blogging service Twitter.
Even as Twitter tries to figure out a business model for itself, more and more companies are trying to use it to make money.
But Sarah Milstein, a Web 2.0 strategist who has written a book on Twitter and who co-founded 20slides.com, a site that runs work-related workshops, warned in her presentation that companies shouldn't just think of Twitter as another way to tout their own wares.
"The biggest mistake a company can make is thinking this is a great place to push out information about itself," said Milstein. "It turns out it isn't a great place to do that at all." Twitter, she warned, isn't advertising — it's an opt-in medium.
Rather, she said, companies should see the service as a way to have conversations with current and potential customers. She recommends allowing employees to have a personality in their tweets, linking to sites beyond their own company, and sharing information that might be of interest to their customers even if it isn't about their company.
Contests also work. Milstein highlighted domain registry company Namecheap.com, which grew sales in December by holding a Twitter-based trivia contest that went viral.
But the most important first step for a company, she said, is to use Twitter to listen. "Before you get on Twitter, keep an eye on what people are saying that might be unhappy. They are going to expect that you will be able to respond," said Milstein.
Twitter, she said, can be a "canary in the coal mine" for companies to hear what their customers are saying about them before the problem explodes.
For example, she pointed to cable and Internet provider Comcast, which tweets under the name comcastcares. Comcast uses the service to listen to and resolve complaints.


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Introduce the world of melodies to your child with the Schoenhut day care durable piano. Built on a mahogany frame, the sound of the piano is impeccably imitated with the high-precision chromatic tuning of the German steel music rods. With the aid of the unique learning system, your child will be able to play the correct notes and chords that span across 3 octaves of this musical instrument. Ages 3 and up. Adult assembly is needed.
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Date: July 03 2013
Former Australian limited-overs paceman Mick Lewis is set to become Victoria's new bowling coach.
The appointment will continue a trend of the Bushrangers recruiting former seamers to mentor their bowlers. David Saker was appointed England's fast-bowling coach after his stint there, while Damien Wright won the same role at New Zealand.
Wright returned to Victoria after one season but has since been poached to lead the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League and assist new Tasmanian coach Dan Marsh in the Sheffield Shield and Ryobi Cup, creating the vacancy.
Lewis, 39, did not make his first-class debut until he was 25 but finished with almost 300 wickets for Victoria in the three formats.
The right-armer's sharp pace and accuracy earned him nine limited-overs internationals for Australia in 2005-06. While Lewis retired a year after his international career ended, he made a dramatic return from suburban cricket to play for Western Australia, as a 35-year-old, in the last season of the state-based Big Bash in 2010-11.
The move will reunite Lewis with Greg Shipperd, who was his coach when he finished playing in Victoria. He will effectively be their third-ranked coach, behind Shipperd and Ryobi Cup coach Simon Helmot.
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of Dora Dolz
This film portrait of the Spanish
visual artist Dora Dolz, viewed
through the eyes of her daughter,
the filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz,
illustrates the possibilities
one has to take control of one's
own life and destiny.
Dora Dolz' playful, down-to-earth
and accessible work and personality
appeals to people from all walks
of life. She is a 'working-class
hero' and a diva at the
same time. She migrated from
Spain to the Netherlands in 1965.
Her capacity to develop from
an isolated outsider into an 'insider' is
a universal phenomenon among
expatriates who sometimes have
to fight harder, inwardly as
well as outwardly, than the local
Over a span of thirty years,
Dora Dolz' many-sided,
trend-setting artwork and monumental
ceramics have put an indelible
stamp on the Dutch and the international
art scene. Presently, she is
at the apex of her creative life.
The film's purpose is not
to mystify that life, but to
show it as an example of how
one can have a 'light' approach
to the weight of reality.
This sparkling film lifts a tip
of the veil of the bountiful
art and soul of Dora Dolz.
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Spoilers: Saturday Morning Slam, Main Event, and WWE Superstars
Apr 1, 2013 - by Steve Gerweck
WWE Superstars
1. The Great Khali beat JTG
Main Event
1. The Miz defeated The Prime Time Players in a handicap match. Wade Barrett sat in on commentary.
Saturday Morning Slam
1. Kofi Kingston defeated Justin Gabriel. A very acrobatic match
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Mr. Tokyo Japanese RestaurantSince we're long past the point when sushi was considered too exotic for New Mexico, it's time to start paying attention to other fine Japanese favorites like tempura, hibachi-grilled meats and seafood, teriyaki without the La Choy, and the beauty of udon noodles. Mr. Tokyo is modestly sized, moderately priced, and an excellent place for a quick, relaxing lunch or a quiet dinner with friends and family. They have mostly repeat customers because they're just so darn good, and the owner's pint-sized daughter, Shyana, will even wipe off half your table for you (give her a break, she's still a shortie). (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)
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Renamed in honour of former state Governor Sir Mark Oliphant's contribution to conservation, Mark Oliphant Conservation Park provides plenty of bushwalking opportunities to enjoy the forest landscape.Tall forest trees, spring wildflowers and relaxing bush sounds make the park an ideal walking environment catering for all levels of fitness. Look out for the native birds that are commonly seen in the area, including the scarlet robin, golden whistler and the Adelaide rosellas.
Mark Oliphant Conservation Park is located 22km south east from Adelaide. Access is via South-Eastern Freeway.
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A Trustee gives no less than $10,000 per year for at least three years and provides advice, counsel and direction to the Board of Directors and management of the Foundation. The Foundation looks to the Council for resources that will promote organizational growth, respect and long-term stability in the community.
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Plant of the week - Wild cacao
This rain forest tree is native to Costa Rica, and like many tropical trees its flowers appear directly out of its trunk and branches. One of the flowers is shown here and it's a little hard to figure out. It seems to have more perianth parts than usual flowers. From the top down, there are bracts, sepals with a curved, translucent base and a small heart-shaped red apex folded back upon itself, and lastly red petals. The stamens are hidden within the base of the sepals.
The fruits that later develop are rather hard, grooved, pink capsules within which a soft pulp surrounds hard seeds from which the chocolate is obtained. Such fruits are mammal dispersed. The soft pulp provides a nutritive reward and the hard seeds are discarded, or if swallowed, pass through the GI tract unharmed, and perhaps prepared for germination.
This particular species (T. siminaca) is wild and not the cacao tree of commerce (T. cacao).
A rotten apple in every faculty?
Does every faculty have to contain at least one jerk who gets their jollies out of being an a$$? Could there be any more cowardly act than to hide behind a secret vote? What sort of inadequacies prompt such actions? And what do they think it accomplishes? What did their protest vote really mean since no one has any idea whatever it is?
Well, it let us know that there is at least one person among us that you would not and should not trust with confidential information. It lets you know that at least one of us is in not fully rationale and socially mature enough to be treated as an adult. It lets you know that someone is being eaten away by an ethical and intellectual rot that cannot help but damage themselves, a skulking, nasty, venomous sort of rot that leaves your core black, a real rotten apple. And you have to watch and make certain that such apples don't spread their rot to any others. Unfortunately you just don't know which one.
This demonstrates the down side of secret ballots; it lets cowards hide. Someone without any guts dislikes our junior colleague, and maybe the whole department, and they wanted to send a message. Quite a few years ago, a now retired colleague routinely voted against virtually all tenure and promotion decisions, but at least he had the decency to say, "They don't measure up to my impossibly high, arbitrary standards." Of course setting the bar so high no one can clear it, including himself, and withholding his approval of anyone who was not a member of the national academy of science, demonstrates a certain tenuous hold on reality. But at least you knew his reason.
The actual list of potential bad apples is not as long or as extensive as one might expect. You see after my afore mentioned colleague retired this sort of thing stopped happening. In the interim we have tenured and promoted only a few people, and now a bad apple appears. I've worked with some of my colleagues over 30 years, and while all are not necessarily charming, I know of what stuff they are made. None of us liked the way many senior faculty used, abused, the tenure process to bully junior faculty. We changed the department's climate, but apparently one of my newer colleagues did not learn that lesson. How very unfortunate! It hurts to know the department made at least one mistake in deciding tenure. And without doubt such people never get better, they only get worse as the perceived slights and injuries mount up and the rot continues to grow.
I shall tell my young, newly tenured colleague to use the freedom of tenure well because it comes with responsibilities too. One of which is that you deal with your colleagues honestly and forthrightly.
Plant of the week (eon?) - Cooksonia
This fossil is looking particularly good because it is a model on display in the Darwin House at the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew.
Cooksonia is significant because this is the first land plant sporophyte to show apical branching. As the axes grew, the apex divides into two equal axes, a type of branching called dichotomous. Fossils show axes of Cooksonia branching thusly 1 to 4 times. Each axis then terminating with a sporangium. This appears to be a way of getting the maximum number of dispersable offspring from a single fertilization event.
Cooksonia is also significant because at the time this was the tallest plant of its day. These axes towered some 5 centimeters (nearly 2 inches) above the substrate. It is also the earliest appearing plant to have vascular tissue, xylem, although the oldest specimens found in Silurian sediments may not have possessed true xylem.
This plant is the first step on the way to trees, and it did not really take too long for the first trees and forests to appear (near the end of the Devonian).
Will I get a new "commander-in-chief"?
Actually too much is made of this constitutional definition, although the buck has to stop somewhere. If the president was not also the commander-in-chief, then the military would only answer to its own commanders, who would be free to act outside of any civilian rule. So the highest elected official has to have that authority.
Many of my fellow citizens argue that only a person with military experience should be in such a position, but I think it may be a good idea to let the military try explaining their reasons for military actions, and what might go wrong, to someone who doesn't necessarily think like them. Guns, bombs, and military might just don't solve all problems. And the big problem the military has is that it is a closed fraternity; they only talk and trust each other. They don't have enough civilian friends or confidants.
It reminds me of visiting the Naval War College many years ago while still in my long-haired days. I have never been looked at with so much disdain and disgust ever before or since. And why? Well, I wasn't one of them, clearly, so I wasn't to be trusted, or liked, or anything. I was some inferior who probably thought the war in Vietnam wasn't a very good idea (true enough!). So making the military explain itself to a civilian leader is a great example of balancing power.
Too much is made of the commander-in-chief's authority. We don't have to do a damned thing the president says unless it becomes a rule of law. Indeed, only congress can declare war, and since they haven't the USA is not fighting a war in Iraq or Afganistan. It's only a military action. And by definition you can't have a war on terrorism. And that probably should tell the president something important; you're trying to fight terroism the wrong way. You fight other states with a military.


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LAUREL, Md. — The Drycleaning & Laundry Institute (DLI) expanded its Seal of Approval program to include the Masterminds Group. The creation of the group is an effort to unite Seal of Approval cleaners in a management group-style forum where they can share success stories and foster excellence among participating cleaners.
Al Lautenslager, spokesperson and marketing coordinator for the program, says the idea came to him during DLI's Five-Star Seminar last February. "A speaker was presenting an idea when someone in the audience said, 'I tried this and here's what happened,' then another person piped in, 'When we tried it, we got this,' and then it blew up into a full-on roundtable discussion in the middle of a presentation. It was magical to see all these people sharing ideas and comparing notes. I've often said you learn more in the hallway than in the lecture room when you go to a convention or seminar like this, but here they were having a hallway discussion in the lecture room."
At that moment, Lautenslager decided the SOA program needed a forum for members to share ideas and compare notes.
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African Perspectives on Catechesis
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The Rev. Dr. Grant LeMarquand
June 18th, 2011
Rev. Dr. GRANT LeMARQUAND, Professor of Biblical Studies and Mission at Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on an African perspective on catechesis.
The unexpected and almost unprecedented response to the gospel in the non-western world raises missiological and pastoral questions concerning evangelism and catechesis. Why have so many people 'become Christians' in the global south in the last hundred years, such that mission historian Andrew Walls has spoken of the church as having had a 'shift in the centre of gravity.'
- Can we simply attribute this growth to a move of the Holy Spirit?
- How much of this response is a desire to join the global community, or to become prosperous like the west ('where the missionaries came from') is prosperous?
- How much is the response a sign that the culture in which it has been received was 'a preparation for the gospel' (Clement of Alexandria)?
- How much is it true that Christianity in some places like Africa is 'a mile wide and an inch deep'?
- In the light of this massive growth in the global church, especially among the poor, what kind of catechesis is needed and possible?
- How are pastors to be theologically formed and trained? Are there implications for the church in the west?
- These questions were addressed by LeMarquand on the final day of the Conference.
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In the United Food and Commercial Workers, you are the union. You come together to talk with your coworkers; you nominate and elect union officers; you determine the working conditions and concerns that will be bargained in a contract; you will be part of a larger movement to improve the lives of working men and women in the workplace and in their communities.
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This past year has been full of unforgettable red carpet moments, both good and bad. Celebs seemed to play it a bit safer than years past, preferring classic shades and silhouettes to crazy concoctions, with Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and Katy Perry being the notable, frequently extreme exceptions. Even at events known for potential shock value, fashions were, for the most part, relatively tame. Thankfully, the good outweighed the bad in 2011, so here are the year's fashionable highlights.
Mila Kunis at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
When the awards season started at the beginning of the year, many expected the then-pregnant Natalie Portman to capture the style spotlight. In reality, her Black Swan co-star stole her thunder in a variety of amazing numbers like this Alexander McQueen Resort 2011 chiffon printed gown with sweetheart neckline. Mila polished off this particular look with an estimated $300,000 worth of Cartier gems.
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Lady Gaga at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
What list of the year's most memorable red carpet moments would be complete without Lady Gaga? She's certainly provided a lot of eye-catching ensembles to select from (like when she introduced the world to her male alter ego, Jo Calderone), but her egg entrance at the Grammys towers above the rest.
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Cate Blanchett at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
The Givenchy Spring 2011 Couture lilac pleated chiffon gown Cate donned for this year's Oscars at the end of February was the epitome of glamour. It featured embroidered pearl detailing with yellow accents and was partnered with Van Cleef & Arpels jewels.
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Princess Beatrice at the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Although it's not technically a red carpet moment, Beatrice's attire for the epic ceremony at Westminster Abbey in late April gained notoriety for that fascinating Philip Treacy fascinator. Such a pity, since it took all the attention away from her pretty blush-colored Valentino coat and dress along with coordinating shoes, which all came from the Spring 2011 Couture collection.
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Daphne Guinness at the Met Gala
The Irish heiress is known for ornate and outlandish getups, so no one was really surprised by her dramatic choice for the annual gala, which this year paid tribute to Alexander McQueen. Daphne's insanely feathered Spring 2011 creation with excessively exaggerated hips is actually from the late designer's fashion house. Silver Mary Janes, tasseled earrings and her signature voluminous hairdo rounded out the look.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at the Opening of the Moscow Film Festival
Rosie treated her promotional tour for Transformers: Dark of the Moon like a veritable runway show. At the Moscow Film Festival, the model turned actress opted for this chic Gucci Fall 2011 gown, which included a chartreuse one-shoulder floral appliqué top paired with a sheer black skirt. Her sandals were also by Gucci, while those rings are from Vhernier and Jack Vartanian was behind her earrings.
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Natalia Vodianova at the White Fairy Tale Love Ball
Natalia wore a custom design by Valentino Garavani to the ball over in Paris this summer. The supermodel's red tulle gown was topped off with a pearl-accented tiara covered delicately by a red hood and was partnered with a matching clutch along with a pearl bracelet to create this Little Red Riding Hood meets couture look.
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Emma Watson at the New York Premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hermione has certainly grown up, and at no point was that transformation more obvious than at the New York unveiling of the franchise's last offering. Emma's Bottega Veneta Fall 2011 gown was extremely edgy with its linen bustier and satin bronze full skirt, but it was her intense smoky eyes and slicked back hairstyle that really made a statement. Chocolate brown Giuseppe Zanotti platform peep-toes and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry completed the look.
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Beyonce at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards
It was on the red carpet at the always unpredictable awards show where Beyonce revealed she was pregnant by posing with her hands cradling her stomach. She looked positively radiant, especially decked out in this orange one-shoulder Lanvin silk crepe gown, which was combined with jewelry by Lorraine Schwartz as well as Rene Caovilla ivory platform heels with Swarovski crystal and pearl details.
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Nina Dobrev at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards
The Vampire Diaries actress had the fashion equivalent of a coming-out party dressed in this knockout red Donna Karan Resort 2012 strapless gown. Nina's accessories were also on par and included Neil Lane gems, a clutch by Judith Leiber and Brian Atwood footwear.
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New HiFiMAN HE-1000 In Stock
Special Deal with HeadAmp GS-X mk2 Amplifier
July 12, 2015
HiFiMAN's new flagship
headphone, the HE-1000, is now in stock and ships
immediately -
order it
here! For a limited time we are also offering a $500
discount on the GS-X mk2 when purchased with a HiFiMAN
HE-1000. To receive this discount, order a HE-1000 and GS-X
mk2 and you'll receive the discount when making your final
payment on the GS-X mk2 (current lead time is 4 weeks).
HiFiMAN: HE-560 now in stock!
July 7, 2014
The eagerly
awaited HiFiMAN HE-560 is now in stock, ready to ship
immediately. This is a great headphone and offers
significant improvements in weight, build, design, and sound
compared to earlier models. Go to the
order page
to buy a pair.
HiFiMAN: HE-400 now $299,
January 27, 2014
While supplies
last, the HiFiMAN HE-400 and HE-500 headphones are now $299
and $599! We have no idea if this is a temporary sale price
or new pricing. Go to the
order page
to buy a pair.
Audeze LCD-2 Headphones Sale
December 13, 2013
While supplies
last, the Audeze LCD-2 Black Friday sale is back from
December 13-19! Available with leather pads/headband
or leather-free (vegan). Go to the
order page
to buy a pair.
Note: We can only ship Audeze headphones to addresses in the
United States.
Black Friday-Cyber Monday
Sales Now Over
November 29, 2013
(updated December 3, 2013)
Thank you for
a very successful Black Friday-Cyber Monday sale (especially
on the HiFiMAN HE-400 headphone --- we more than sold out
and have the backordered headphones on the way). Audeze
LCD-2 (mostly bamboo) were also sold out, as the sale was
announced at the last minute by Audeze. We quickly ordered
more pairs that should be here soon
We will be
sending out an email as soon as time allows to inform on the
status of the remaining HiFiMAN HE-400 and Audeze LCD-2 orders.
If you send an
email (to email@example.com)
about the status or question regarding a backorder, please
use HiFiMAN HE-400 Backorder or Audeze LCD-2
Backorder as the email subject.
Audeze LCD-X/XC Now In Stock +
Black Friday
November 25, 2013
Check out the
order page
as the new Audeze LCD-X and LCD-XC are now in stock! These
headphones have the black rings and the XC have bubinga wood
On Black
Friday, we will have the HiFiMAN HE-400 for $299. We ordered
20 pairs for this deal, and it's looking like that might not
have been enough -- so place your order early. If we do run
out of stock, the website will be updated, and you will
still be able to get it on backorder at that price.
There will
also be some rare sale prices on some of the best Sennheiser
Holiday Headphone Sales +
Black Friday Preview
November 17, 2013
Check out the
order page
for some factory authorized headphone sales (this means they
still come with a warranty, be careful buying elsewhere).
featuring the Sennheiser HD700 - was $999.95, now
Check back on Black Friday for a fantastic deal on the
HiFiMAN HE-400 as well as rare sale prices on the Sennheiser
HD600, HD650, HD800, and Momentum.
HeadAmp now authorized dealer
for Fostex and Sennheiser headphones. Free NEXT DAY
shipping for the summer!
June 17, 2013
HeadAmp is now
an authorized dealer for Fostex and Sennheiser headphones!
We still have Audeze, HiFiMAN, and STAX, too, including the
latest models. In celebration of this, we are going to
offer free next day shipping again on all headphone orders!
Just use the promo code "NEXTDAYSUMMER" in the shopping cart
on the
Order page.
headphones: TH-600, TH-900
Sennheiser headphones: HD598, Momentum, HD600, HD650,
Free NEXT DAY Shipping on Audeze, HiFiMAN, STAX
and Picos Amps/DACs!
December 19, 2012
Thru the end
of 2012, we are offering FREE next day shipping
by FedEx for all Audeze, HiFiMAN, and STAX headphone orders.
Orders placed before 4PM EST should ship the same day.
We are also offering the free shipping on our Pico portable
Amps & DACs, which will ship the same or next day.
Just enter discount code "NEXTDAY" in the shopping cart.
Note: you will
not see the price change as we already offer free ground
shipping, but be assured that the discount code has been
International orders will receive free standard shipping.
in stock: LCD-2 (bamboo & rosewood), LCD-3
HiFiMAN in stock: HE-400, HE-500, HE-6
STAX in stock: SR-507, SR-007 MK2, SR-009 +
You might have
noticed we are now an authorized STAX dealer and we're
taking pre-orders for the upcoming STAX "in-the-earspeakers".
Visit the
Order Page to see our extended selection.
Free Shipping, Audeze &
HiFiMAN Headphones,
and Pico Power Pre-Orders
September 8, 2012
We now have a
new improved
order page/shopping
cart system. It accepts PayPal, Google, and just
regular credit/debit cards. Try it
and get free domestic or international shipping this month
We are also
now authorized dealers for Audeze and HiFiMAN headphones.
Right now, the Audeze LCD-D, LCD-3 and the HiFiMAN HE-500,
HE-6 are in stock for immediate shipment.
Finally, you
can now place pre-orders for the upcoming Pico Power
portable amp. To do so, please post in this thread:
If you are not a Head-Fi member, you can email your
pre-order request to
More Updates on Availability &
New Colors
May 18, 2012
Order page
has been updated with the new colors and wait times for our
Pico DAC/Amp
In Stock - Black, Silver, Gray, Purple, Gold,
Blue, Red, Orange
Portable Amp
In Stock - Black, Silver
Upsampling USB DAC
In Stock - Black
Pico Slim
In Stock - Black, Silver, Gray, Purple, Gold,
Blue, Red, Orange
Blue Hawaii
SE Electrostatic Amp (BHSE)
We are currently taking refundable deposits for the next
production run that will be built this summer.
Electrostatic Amp
One more small production run of the Aristaeus, and they'll be ready by end of summer/early fall.
Make a refundable deposit to reserve an amp.
Headphone Amp/Pre-Amp
Now sold out.
Headphone Amp/Pre-Amp
Wait time is currently 12 weeks.
New Address - Important
July 25, 2011
Our address
has changed. Please check the
Us page for details.
Order Now - 10% of your purchase will go to relief efforts
in Japan (March 16 - March 24)
March 16, 2011
From March 16
thru March 24, Eastern Standard Time, we will donate 10% of
all order revenues to benefit relief efforts in Japan, from
the earthquake and tsunami.
All our amps/DACs/accessories
can be
ordered here through PayPal/Google Checkout/Credit Card.
The "fine print" since I'm sure some will ask.
- This is a donation of 10% the total amount we receive by
PayPal/Google Checkout, after they take their fees, and
excluding shipping costs. It is not 10% of "profits" or
anything tricky like that.
- If the order is for a
Blue Hawaii SE, and you make the required 1/4 deposit,
then it is 10% of that deposit that will be donated.
Leather case
now included with all Pico
March 15, 2011
immediately, the custom leather case will be included with
Pico Portable Amp,
Pico USB DAC/Amp, and
Pico Upsampling USB DAC orders (it was previously
available for $15).
A leather case
has always been included with the
Pico Slim amp.
GS-1 Amplifier: Now In Stock
December 16, 2010
GS-1 is now In Stock, as all pending orders have been
Pico Slim
Portable Amp: Lead Time Update
November 29, 2010
Now that all
orders from the
pre-order list have shipped, the lead time
for the
Pico Slim has been reduced from 8 weeks to 2 weeks.
Pico Slim can be ordered on
the Order
Amplifiers: Lead Time Update
November 29, 2010
The lead time
for the
GS-1 and
GS-X amplifiers has been reduced from 8 weeks to 4
Weekend +
Cyber Monday Sale: Pico USB DAC
November 27, 2010
Saturday, Nov
27 thru Monday, Nov 29, receive 20% off the
Pico Upsampling USB DAC. You must use the purchase
buttons below to receive the special pricing.
Pico Slim
Portable Amp: Now Open to Website Orders
September 3, 2010
The new
Slim Portable Amp is now available to order on this website.
New orders placed here will ship in the order they are
received, AFTER existing pre-orders (see the below post)
have shipped. The estimated wait at this time is 8
You can find
the Pico Slim on
the Order
If you have
already placed a pre-order on Head-Fi, there is no need to
order again, it may just cause a delay.
Pico Slim
Portable Amp: Pre-Ordering Now Open
December 10, 2009
The Pico Slim
Portable Amp can now be pre-ordered here:
Pico Slim Pre-Order Requests
We are
offering a special price for any amps ordered during the
pre-order period, which will be open until the first amps
are ready to ship.
Also, a
lifetime warranty and lifetime batteries is being offered
for the first 250 units only. This special status will
be engraved onto each amp. See the
pre-order thread for more details.
Pico Slim
Portable Amp: Update
November 25, 2009
Please keep
checking the
Head-Fi Pico Slim Sponsored Thread for the latest
updates on the Pico Slim portable amp.
Pico USB DAC/Amp:
All Colors Now in Stock
June 10, 2009
Pico USB DAC/Amp is now in stock in all colors.
Please always check the
page for the latest status.
Pico Slim
Portable Amp: A Preview
May 5, 2009
A release of a
new portable amp, the Pico Slim, is planned for late summer.
What will the Pico Slim offer?
- Thinner than
an iPod Classic or iPhone (about 0.4" thin).
- 1.75" wide front panel with 3.5mm input & output, volume
knob, and illuminated power switch; 3" length.
- Up to 4.2V/250mA output per channel
- 40 to 50 hour battery life (Lithium Polymer).
- Charging by USB or DC Adapter.
The above specifications are subject to change.
But most
importantly the Pico Slim is different.
The heart of the Pico Slim is a feature not found on any
other portable amp.
With the growing popularity of IEMs that have extreme
sensitivity, portable amps have enough power but fall short
in other areas. The Pico Slim will solve these
problems and still be a fraction of the size of other
portable amps. That's why the Pico Slim will make the
most sense as the amplifier in your portable rig.
A few months
ago, an early prototype was sent to a Head-Fi member for
evaluation. Here are his thoughts. Parts of
these impressions have been removed to hide details of the
Pico Slim's design.
"I believe
that [the Pico Slim] is the perfect solution for IEMs. It's
the no holds barred approach to dealing with providing an
amp for IEMs. The degree to which you can ___________ is
insane. [The Pico Slim] is a design tailored specifically to
address the issues with current tech portable amps, namely
the fact that it is impossible to ____________. So [HeadAmp]
dealt with this in a way that as far as I know has never
been done in any headphone amp, portable or otherwise. So
you custom IEM freaks might want to be on the lookout, you
ain't seen nothing like it."
For now, we're
keeping the feature that sets the Pico Slim apart under
wraps. More info will be revealed this month at CanJam
2009 - be sure to bring your IEMs and full-size headphones
Upsampling USB DAC Available for Pre-Order
March 9, 2009
The Pico
Upsampling USB DAC is now available for pre-ordering.
We are taking pre-orders through a
Sponsored Thread on Head-Fi. You can also place a
pre-order by sending an email to
Please specify what color you want (black or silver), the
country you live in, and if you want a USB Mini-B cable for
$5 - they are available in 1, 3, or 6 foot lengths.
See the
Sponsored Thread on Head-Fi for detailed information
about the Pico Upsampling USB DAC.
Blue Hawaii SE
Electrostatic Headphone Amp
March 9, 2009
first Blue Hawaii SE
(BHSE) electrostatic headphone amp has been completed and
shipping will begin. The BHSE has sold out, but another
run is planned for this summer. Please see our
page if you're interested in reserving a spot for a BHSE.
Some photos of
the first unit are below (click for enlargements).
Headphone Amp Page Updated
January 28, 2009
Electrostatic Headphone
Amp page has been updated with a spot for the upcoming
Blue Hawaii SE
(BHSE). Some photos of the prototype unit have been
made available. The first BHSE orders will begin
shipping in about 3 weeks.
HeadAmp Audio
in 2009
January 2, 2009
Here are some
updates and new products to expect from HeadAmp in the first
few months of 2009.
Pico USB DAC/Amp
will be in stock for next day shipment in most of the
popular colors
The Pico
USB DAC will be released - this will be just a DAC, with
both RCA and mini line outputs. It's the same
great DAC found in the Pico USB DAC/Amp, but no
headphone amp, battery, or charger. Check
for a sponsored thread soon.
Wait time
on the GS-1 and
GS-X amps will
drop to no more than 1 week.
Gilmore Lite and
AE-2 have been
in stock and that will continue.
We'll also be
creating a newsletter for new product announcements, special
offers, and even asking for your input on future products.
The first newsletter will be sent out to all email addresses
that have placed an order with us before. If you have
never placed an order but would like to be added to the
subscriber list please send an email to
Order Page Updated
December 14, 2008
We have
extensively updated the Order
page. Here is a summary of the changes.
Shopping cart now allows easier selection of color,
supports Google
Checkout in addition to
AE-2 is in
stock in all colors
Gilmore Lite is
in stock
Pico USB DAC/Amp
is in stock in silver or gray - don't forget a USB
Contact Us if you find any
bugs, mistakes, or have questions about the new
Order page.
Pico USB DAC/Headphone Amp
December 2, 2008
HeadAmp Pico is a
new portable headphone amp, with a unique optional 24/96 USB
We have
been taking orders through a Sponsored Thread on Head-Fi.org, or you can send an email with your request to firstname.lastname@example.com. As time permits, the Pico Pre-Order
List page will be updated.
The current wait time is 4-6 weeks, and once the order backlog has been cleared they will be available for purchase on our Order page. However, the fastest way to get a Pico is to ask now!
Blue Hawaii SE Electrostatic Headphone Amp
December 2, 2008
A new version of the Blue Hawaii electrostatic amp will be shipping soon to those who have made a reservation for one of the 20 units to be built. All have been reserved and because of the demand, another run of the
Blue Hawaii SE will be built to ship in Spring/Summer 2009.
A reservation can be made with a refundable 25% deposit on
the Order page.
Blue Hawaii SE features a separate power supply of a new design, many improvements to the amplifier circuitry, higher quality components, and build quality on a new level for electrostatic headphone amps. Inputs are 2 RCA and 1 XLR, and a set of XLR and RCA tape outputs. There are 2 headphone outputs, which can be for Stax or Sennheiser Orpheus, or one of each. The volume control is a DACT CT2 stepped attenuator or an optional Alps RK50 potentiometer.


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Think of it as a magic anti-aging wand, an outside the box breakthrough in skincare. The new JeNu Active-Yough Skincare System makes miracles happen seriously reducing wrinkles and lines around the eyes and plumping up lips to a youthful pout.
The first and only at-home, ultrasound system that raises the anti-aging over-the-bar can be your ticket to a younger looking 'selfie'. Your LA Beauty Products Examiner began using the sleek, little instrument two days ago and has already witness amazing improvement in the eye area. What's really cool is it is portable so you can take it on trips, to the gym or where ever you go and continue treatments. If it's as effective on the lips (which I will be testing next) as it is on the eye area, we really have discovered the fountain of eternal youth.
The wand comes with two products, one for the eyes and the other for your lips. All you do, after charging the device overnight, is wash your face, then apply a dab of either product to the area you want to work and gently rub the wand over it for a minute or two. Both vitamin-packed Eye and Lip Serums supply a solid dose of hyaluronic acid, essential vitamins, and other skin-firming ingredients to your eyes and lips. But the real power is in the professional-grade ultrasound wand, the serums just add an extra punch (like 12 times the effectiveness).
There is a great video explaining the system at http://www.newbeauty.com/video/575-get-youthful-eyes-and-lips-with-jenu/.
JeNu Active-Youth Skincare System costs 249 at www.nordstrom.com, www.neimanmarcus.com, www.jenu.com , or New Beauty at Fred Segal.
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