You Never Know Where They’ll Show Up
Friday, November 18th, 2016Kickstarter – TAPS
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
TAPS is a pretty cool idea. It’s is a touchscreen sticker for your handwear, but it incorporates a unique fingerprint for touch ID. TAPS are formulated to stick and stay on almost any surface and guaranteed to work on all touchscreen devices. It’s a simple idea, but offers interesting applications for those who wear gloves all of the time.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/nanotips/taps-touchscreen-sticker-w-touch-id-ships-before-x
Gentex Corporation Partners with The Red Devils to Promote Parachutist Safety
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Carbondale, PA, November 16, 2016. Gentex Corporation, a global leader in personal protection and situational awareness solutions for defense forces, emergency responders, and industrial personnel has partnered with The Red Devils, the official parachute display team of both The Parachute Regiment (The Paras) and the British Army to promote soldier safety. As part of the agreement, Gentex Corporation will provide its Ops-Core FAST Carbon High Cut Helmet to each of the 12 members of The Red Devils to use during their promotional water jumps and for team training.
“Gentex is proud to have the opportunity to support The Red Devils in their mission to promote The Paras and the British Army, both long time customers of Gentex Corporation,” said Tom Short, vice president ground systems, Gentex Corporation. “Through this partnership we’ll also have the opportunity to help promote our common goal of advancing parachuting and skydiving safety.”
Corporal Nathan Connolly, Red Devils Team Leader, commented, “As a team we always seek to push the boundaries of display parachuting to ensure that we continuously showcase original and exciting displays. Our new partnership with Gentex Corporation equips our team with the advanced Ops-Core helmet, allowing us to train and practice new canopy formations with a helmet that provides outstanding protection. In addition to its safety features, the Ops-Core helmet also enables us to maintain perfect all round observation and clear voice communication; key components when practicing Canopy Relative Work.”
The streamlined design and durable, lightweight carbon construction of the Ops-Core FAST Carbon High Cut Helmet provide parachutists an unobstructed field of view, comfort, and industry leading blunt trauma protection. Other key performance and safety features of the FAST Carbon Helmet include Accessory Rail Connectors (ARCs) that allow the helmet to be easily, and fully customized with situational awareness and other performance enhancing accessories, plus a 4-Point Chinstrap that provides comfort and stability, and allows for the convenient donning and doffing of communication headsets with internal headbands.
With its unique system design and rail technology for mounting helmet accessories, Ops-Core is today’s leading brand of modular, scalable, open-architecture helmet systems for elite defense and security forces. Ops-Core helmet platforms and components are designed to seamlessly work together to provide true system level performance for the modern soldier.
Save 10% on US Made Rifle Bag
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
In the market for a American made, Berry compliant rifle bag? Save 10% when you use the coupon code below.
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Sera-Brynn Announces Addition of Patrick McLaughlin as Director, Business Development
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016Suffolk, Va., Nov. 14, 2016 – Sera-Brynn is pleased to announce the addition of Patrick McLaughlin to the key position of Director, Business Development.
McLaughlin brings a unique combination of traditional Department of Defense (DoD) business development as well as technology sales experience stemming from his background in working with large companies, including Netapp, Dell/EMC and Riverbed Technologies.
His experience in working with the DoD and other federal agencies in the area of cybersecurity, mission critical IT systems and consulting services will be instrumental to the Sera-Brynn team, said CEO Rob Hegedus.
“We welcome Patrick and are excited he has joined our team,” Hegedus said. “We feel confident Patrick will be a key factor in our continued growth across all of our business units and strengthening relationships with our existing clients as well as business partners.”
McLaughlin has more than 25 years of experience with U.S. federal and DoD agencies. This includes discovering and then introducing new products and technologies in emerging markets.
About Sera-Brynn: Headquartered in Suffolk, Va., Sera-Brynn is a global Cyber Risk Management firm with an international client base. The company is dedicated to helping clients secure their computing environments, pre- and post-breach, and meet applicable mandatory industry and government compliance requirements. Sera-Brynn is the only Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor in North America directly partnered with a multi-billion dollar financial institution, and the firm works closely with the insurance industry, legal offices nationwide, crisis management firms, financial institutions and law enforcement at all levels to provide the most comprehensive protection to its clients.
Sera-Brynn’s clients include Fortune 1000 companies, healthcare, financial institutions, insurance carriers and re-insurers, higher education, municipalities and state governments, manufacturers, law offices, large retail establishments, technology enterprises, accounting firms, national non-profits, and international joint ventures.
Prometheus Design Werx – Technical Picnic Blanket
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016I love picnics and I love blankets. Although the new T.P.B. From PDW, is called a picnic blanket, and I might use it as such, it’s so much more, and I’m looking forward to ordering one just as soon as they are up.
San Francisco based specialty outdoor products brand Prometheus Design Werx releases their packable, multi-purpose T.P.B. (Technical “Picnic” Blanket) designed to be used in a variety of roles, from an insulated ground sheet, weatherproof wilderness throw, picnic blanket, to stadium blanket. The lightweight yet durable nylon ripstop ground liner is impregnated with silicone to repel water and also coated with PU for extra protection against the elements. The T.P.B. is inspired by the classic “cowboy bedroll,” but PDW’s take is updated with modern, lighter, technical materials with the silnylon, tried and true wool Melton, and yet this 54” x 84” back country throw rolls up into the included small stuff sack to easily stash in your pack. Designed and made in USA.
The T.P.B. is part of the Made in USA CORE-Line of products by Prometheus Design Werx, and will be available in Charcoal Gray wool Melton with dark OD Green silnylon.
The Design and R&D Team at PDW states:
“We came up with the product name of ‘Technical Picnic Blanket’ with a bit of a chuckle. As serious as a piece of backcountry gear this is, it certainly can be casually used as a picnic blanket but will kick the pants off of those crappy plasticky jobs you see being offered at big box stores. We really felt there was something missing from our gear line up and this product really fills that niche. We’ve used it hiking, backpacking, overlanding, the beach, watching fireworks and meteor showers, and lining the floor of our tent when snow camping. The seasoned outdoorsman knows that wool insulates even when wet and we’ve found that the weight of the wool Melton we selected to be a great balance between packed trail weight and all season use. This best made product uses custom milled lightweight but durable 30D nylon ripstop that has been impregnated with silicone for the hydrophobic properties and also lined it with PU for even more protection from the elements. The 14 oz wool Melton is sourced from a US supplier that has been in operation since 1922. It’s surprisingly soft to the touch and uses 15% nylon fibers to add that extra touch of durability to the 85% wool content. There are 6 staking points to secure it to the ground and the entire 54” x 84” foot print rolls up into its 6.5” x 11” stuff sack to easily stow into just about any pack. We also always keep an extra one in the 4×4 for just in case.”
The PDW CAB-2 will be available for purchase on Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:00pm PST via their website, prometheusdesignwerx.com.
LaserMax names Jay Duncan Vice President of Marketing
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016Rochester, NY – November 14, 2016 – LaserMax announced today that Jay Duncan will join the executive management team to direct and lead the marketing efforts for the innovator and manufacturer of high quality laser sighting systems.?
“Jay is a strategic hire for LaserMax as we focus our branding, product offerings and message on delivering high quality laser aiming solutions to the consumer.” said Chris Tinkle, Chief Sales Officer for LaserMax. “Jay brings a ton of experience, and he’s an inspiring leader who exemplifies LaserMax’s core values, I’m excited to have him on our team.”
Mr. Duncan has over a decade of experience in marketing in the shooting sports industry. That experience provides Jay with the skills and talent for developing, implementing, and supervising the marketing initiatives of LaserMax in support of organizational strategy and objectives.
“I am profoundly honored to join LaserMax,” said Duncan. “I have enormous respect for the team and I am excited to contribute to the company’s continued success and growth. LaserMax is uniquely positioned in the firearms accessory market with incredible product offerings for both Self Defense and Military markets. This creates an awesome opportunity to tell the wonderful story of this iconic brand via captivating marketing initiatives.“
Prior to joining LaserMax Duncan most recently held the position of Director of Sales and Marketing for Gorilla Ammunition where he executed all sales channel development and directed all aspects of marketing. Prior to his time at Gorilla Ammunition Mr. Duncan also served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Daniel Defense for over 8 years.
