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#IMTS – Everywhere You Look! #TBT Edition

Remember when IMTS 2014 announced their photo contest and we submitted this scrumptious morsel of photography??  For #TBT, I’d like to pay tribute to this delicious day in Bernard & Company history: “Chicago’s Favorites”  featuring Bernard & Company, IMTS, Portillo’s Chicago-Style Hot Dogs/Fries and Italian Beef Sandwiches, Lou Malnati’s Deep Dish Pizza and Garrett’s Chicago Mix Popcorn.

Click Photo to Enlarge Deliciousness

Click Photo to Enlarge Deliciousness

(Original Tweet here)

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Ensuing food hangover included!

(Original Tweet here)

Keep warm and keep having fun, manufacturing world!

– n

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IMTS – Everywhere You Look!

When IMTS 2014 announced their photo contest, we couldn’t wait to get to work!

Presenting our entry:

“Chicago’s Favorites”  featuring Bernard & Company, IMTS, Portillo’s Chicago-Style Hot Dogs/Fries and Italian Beef Sandwiches, Lou Malnati’s Deep Dish Pizza and Garrett’s Chicago Mix Popcorn. What could be better?? Nothing, I tell ya.

Click Photo to Enlarge Deliciousness

Click Photo to Enlarge Deliciousness

Do NOT miss IMTS this upcoming September!! Our clients, including Siemens Machine Tools, Siemens Production MachiningRattunde, Advanced Machine & Engineering, Heimatec, TCT Stainless, GMTA, Suhner and Chemtool will all be exhibiting!

And if the photo above did not leave you reaching for a napkin to wipe the drool, IMTS will be home to over 100,000 decision makers showing new manufacturing technology and ideas. So come on over to Chicago and get a taste of everything IMTS will have to offer!

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Happy Father’s Day!

Fathers-DayFather’s Day is this Sunday, June 15…

We did it for Mother’s Day, and now it’s dad’s turn. They’ll make you laugh, they’ll make you cry, they’ll make you appreciate dad more than ever before!

Here’s a collection of the best commercials/videos celebrating dads:

Dove’s #RealDadMoments

VISIONFUDGE – Dads Can’t

Google Chrome – Dear Sophie

Miller Lite – Here’s to Dad

American Greetings – The Dad Life Rap

And here’s a little extra:

25 Absolute Greatest Dad Jokes of All Time

** Happy Father’s Day!! **

Do you have must-see commercial to add?? Share the link in the comments below!

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Happy (Post) Mother’s Day!

Is there a better way to celebrate and honour Mother’s Day than to make you weep uncontrollably at your office desk?

Mothers-DayI think not. Here’s a collection of the best commercials/videos celebrating moms:

Olympics P&G – Thank You Mom

Olympics P&G – Pick Them Back Up

Publix – Mother’s Day Commercial

Kobo – The Gift of Reading

Google – Here’s to Moms

#WorldsToughestJob

Video – Parents Announce New Baby; Daughter Has Best Reaction. Ever.

And then there’s this one. Disclaimer: this commercial is incredibly creepy. But also hilarious.

Old Spice – Momsong

 

** Happy Mother’s Day!! **

 

Do you have must-see commercial to add?? Share the link in the comments below!

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Is This Real Life?? A Note on Augmented Reality

Remember this? Star Wars is a great example of  maximum creativity in the imagining and depicting of innovative, futuristic gadgets and concepts (meanwhile, creativity for costume design = minimal, pretty sure they all just wore potato sacks and bedsheets)

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What’s even more impressive is that THIS IS HAPPENING.

Recently, Watry Industries, LLC exhibited at the AFS 118th Metalcasting Congress and handed out these cards at their booth:

Scan with actable™ for AWESOMENESS

Scan with actable™ for AWESOMENESS!

 

Download the actable™ app for Android, iPhone or iPad and hold the scanner up to the card. Yes – you can even hold it up to a computer screen or the screen of another phone or tablet and scan! Or, if you’re stuck in the dark ages, you can print the card out and scan to play 🙂

See a quick video of the whole thing going down >>HERE<<.

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Augmented reality is emerging full force and making big splashes (ex. Pepsi in London and Lego). Computer-generated sensory input (sight, sound, feel) can change and enhance the way we interact with just about anything!

Well done, Watry. We applaud this shiny new toy.

Watry is a permanent mold aluminum foundry in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. They take part design and do all of the following, all in-house.

That’s their single-source promise.

For more information about Watry Industries, please contact:

Dale Christel
Sales Manager
Watry Industries LLC
3312 Lakeshore Drive
Sheboygan, WI 53081
Office: 1-920-457-4886
www.watry.com
dchristel@watry.com
Connect with Watry Industries online: fbligplustwitwpyt

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Hi. I’m new here.

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Hi!

Here I am. Marketing Information Specialist/Director of Social Media/Blogger all rolled into one – a perfect storm dynamic combo of job titles and caffeine.

Social media 101: Social media is, um – social. It’s engagement – it’s a conversation and I’m finding it difficult to have that conversation in 140 characters or less (à la Twitter). So, Hi. I’m new here. Offer me greetings of salutations below or on Twitter or Facebook. As an extended voice of our advertising/PR agency, I want to show you that there’s more than meets the “i” in our industrial world [haha – get it?]! And I’ll show it to you one blog post at a time. I mean for these posts to vary in levels of information and entertainment. After all, we’re not just PR robots here at Bernard & Co!

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Say ‘hi’ NOW! Do it!

 

I just used 745 characters and it felt glorious. I love you, Twitter – but you can’t hold me back!

 

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