The past year has been something of a nirvana for local craft beer fans, as their local options increase with the openings of Metropolitan Brewing, Half Acre Beer Company and Revolution Brewing. If all things go well, a fourth microbrewery/brewpub will be joining those ranks by late summer.
Construction is currently underway on Haymarket Pub and Brewing, in the former Bar Louie space at 741 W. Randolph. The project is a partnership between Pete Crowley, senior brewer at Rock Bottom Chicago, and his friend John Neurauter. We’d been hearing rumblings for weeks about Haymarket and Crowley, who’s also president of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, was more than happy to fill us in on some of the details.
Crowley said that Haymarket will focus on “classic Belgian and contemporary American ales and lagers paired with hand made sausages, pulled pork, pizza and rotisserie chicken.” There are plans for an outdoor beer garden, full bar, dining area with pool tables and games. About 600 square feet downstairs will be allocated for a barrel room for aging and blending. The centerpiece of the pub will be a walk through kitchen and brewery that leads to a “drinking and writing” theater. This means that, when Haymarket opens its doors, the long running and popular Drinking & Writing series with Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda will have a home. Crowley is the “brewer” for Drinking and Brewing.
For the past 6 months Tanagram has been working on a research grant from DARPA to develop a User Experience Model for Augmented Reality using Head Mounted Display Technology (HMD). We’ll be sharing the outcome soon, but for now here is an amazing technology we are researching as a potential ingredient.
Vitamin D is a consumer ready video recording and management system. From their website:
“Our easy-to-use software brings professional-grade video monitoring to anyone with a webcam or network camera. Know exactly what you’ve missed without scanning hours of video.”
Here is a video of Tim, Tanagram’s Senior Design Technologist, turning down the annoying audio notifications I set up for each trigger event.
The folks here at Tanagram get very excited when we see products exploring visualizations that truly utilize the advantages of current display technologies. We’ve always adored Weatherunderground for their approach to syndicating data, but today they get a vigorous hat tip for some nicely done User Experience (UX). Sure there could be a nicer font, or better color palette, but this experience is so much of an improvement over the state of the union, we don’t really care. Thanks guys for being great. We salute you.
FROM GOLD COAST BLOG: A common need for Windows 7 touch user interfaces is to react to a touch gesture. In this screencast, I demonstrate a very simple and easy way to interpret single touch gestures using MouseGestureTrigger from the Expression Blend Samples (http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/).
To learn more about Behaviors, Triggers, and Actions mentioned in the screencast, visit http://tinyurl.com/TriggersActionsBehaviors. If you are interested in touch/multitouch Behaviors, then have a look at http://touch.codeplex.com/. You can download even more Triggers, Actions, Behaviors, etc. at Expression Gallery.
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