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Fortunately this phone is available in many countries.
Australia’s vision-impaired community has a new and affordable
connectivity tool at its disposal as the world’s first braille mobile phone
launches in Australia.
The
stripped-down OwnFone handset -- there’s no touchscreen, no text messaging and
no voicemail -- can be programmed with up to three personalised numbers, each
dialled from 3D-printed buttons labelled in braille.
It’s
the 3D-printing technology has enabled the British company that produces the
handsets to bring costs down for vision-impaired consumers.
“In
the past, the cost of developing a braille phone versus the market size has been
a barrier to entry,” OwnFone’s UK-based inventor, Tom Sunderland,
said.
“3D
printing provides a fast and affordable way to overcome this
barrier.”
Through a wholesale partnership with Vodafone, Australian
customers can now purchase the handset from $89, with a range of pre- and
post-paid price plans starting at $2.35 a week. OwnFone has been selling its handsets in Britain for the last 2.5
years. Its Australian operations, headed by Brad Scoble, launched in April with
the release of non-braille handsets designed for elderly and primary school-age
children.
“The
only difference is in the design of the phone,” Mr Scoble
said.
“Kids and seniors have the option of words or images as buttons,
whereas people who are blind have braille.”
At
$69, OwnFone’s non-braille handsets are even cheaper, but Mr Scoble told
Business Spectator the cost of producing the braille version is
higher.
“Braille is a very unique language and the alphabet’s very
lengthy, so we had to make some modifications to the phone to make it
user-friendly,” Scoble said.
Additionally, the manufacturing process requires each individual
handset to be customised, with users providing up to three contact numbers (for
example, of family, friends, carers or Triple Zero) which are then
pre-programmed into the handset and printed on the front in
braille.
OwnFone consulted extensively the vision-impaired community in
Britain in developing the product to best meet users’
requirements.
Mr
Scoble said the handset had been “very well received” in Britain because it was
“very simple to operate”.
“There’s one-button dialling and any-key call-answering, so there
are a few features about the handset that make it quite different,” he
said.
Local vision-impaired advocates are also welcoming the
product.
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network disability
policy adviser Wayne Hawkins said the affordability of the OwnFone handset was a
“positive addition” to the choices for the 35,000 or so consumers in Australia
who are blind.
Mr
Scoble told Business Spectator OwnFone is currently working on a new
handset and will “potentially” look at moving into the popular wearables space
as it continues servicing its target seniors market.
“We’re looking at how best to meet the needs of the community,
through for instance how to tie the handset in with hearing aids and improving
the way the handset will provide voice feedback to customers as well,” Mr Scoble
said.
“We’re certainly not in the business of trying to compete with
smartphone people.”
Tom Sunderland, the UK-based inventor of the OwnFone, talks about it's
special features, including being able to change the phone numbers at
any time due to the Cloud technology this simple 'dumbphone' utilises.
OwnFone
is a mini, light, low cost mobile phone that just calls the people you
need; simply press the name of the person you want to call. You can have
up to twelve names on your OwnFone and it receives calls too. It's
about the size of a credit card so you can keep it on you at all times.
Use
your OwnFone day to day or as an emergency phone. It is rechargeable
and in Shutdown mode your OwnFone will last up to a year without a
charge.
It comes in a wide range of colourful designs so there's an OwnFone to suit everyone.
Of course there have been many more brilliant mathematicians than five as the above heading suggests.
We owe a great debt to scores of mathematicians who helped lay the
foundation for our modern society with their discoveries. Here are some
of the most important.
Math. It's one of those things that most people either love or
hate. Those who fall on the hate side of things might still have
nightmares of showing up for a high school math test unprepared, even
years after graduation. Math is, by nature, an abstract subject, and it
can be hard to wrap your head around it if you don't have a good teacher
to guide you.
But even if you don't count yourself a fan of mathematics, it's
hard to argue that it hasn't been a vital factor in our rapid evolution
as a society. We reached the moon because of math. Math allowed us to
tease out the secrets of DNA, create and transmit electricity over
hundreds of miles to power our homes and offices, and gave rise to
computers and all that they do for the world. Without math, we'd still
be living in caves getting eaten by cave tigers.
Our history is rich with mathematicians who helped advance our
collective understanding of math, but there are a few standouts whose
brilliant work and intuitions pushed things in huge leaps and bounds.
Their thoughts and discoveries continue to echo through the ages,
reverberating today in our cellphones, satellites, hula hoops and
automobiles. We picked five of the most brilliant mathematicians whose
work continues to help shape our modern world, sometimes hundreds of
years after their death. Enjoy!
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
We start our list with Sir Isaac Newton, considered by many to be
the greatest scientist of all time. There aren't many subjects that
Newton didn't have a huge impact in — he was one of the inventors of
calculus, built the first reflecting telescope and
helped establish the field of classical mechanics with his seminal
work, "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica." He was the first to
decompose white light into its component colors and gave us the three laws of motion,
now known as Newton's laws. (You might remember the first one from
school: "Objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend
to stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force.")
We would live in a very different world had Sir Isaac Newton not
been born. Other scientists would probably have worked out most of his
ideas eventually, but there is no telling how long it would have taken
and how far behind we might have fallen from our current technological
trajectory.
Carl Gauss (1777 - 1855)
Isaac Newton is a hard act to follow, but if anyone can pull it
off, it's Carl Gauss. If Newton is considered the greatest scientist of all
time, Gauss could easily be called the greatest mathematician ever. Carl
Friedrich Gauss was born to a poor family in Germany in 1777 and quickly showed
himself to be a brilliant mathematician. He published "Arithmetical
Investigations," a foundational textbook that laid out the tenets of number
theory (the study of whole numbers). Without number theory, you could kiss
computers goodbye. Computers operate, on a the most basic level, using just two
digits — 1 and 0, and many of the advancements that we've made in using
computers to solve problems are solved using number theory. Gauss was prolific,
and his work on number theory was just a small part of his contribution to math;
you can find his influence throughout algebra, statistics, geometry, optics,
astronomy and many other subjects that underlie our modern
world.
John von Neumann (1903-1957)
John von Neumann was born in Budapest a few years after the start of the 20th century, a well-timed birth for all of us, for he went on to design the architecture underlying nearly every single computer built on the planet today. Right now, whatever device or computer that you are reading this on, be it phone or computer, is cycling through a series of basic steps billions of times over each second; steps that allow it to do things like render Internet articles and play videos and music, steps that were first thought up by John von Neumann.
Von Neumann received his Ph.D in mathematics at the age of 22 while also earning a degree in chemical engineering to appease his father, who was keen on his son having a good marketable skill. Thankfully for all of us, he stuck with math. In 1930, he went to work at Princeton University with Albert Einstein at the Institute of Advanced Study. Before his death in 1957, von Neumann made important discoveries in set theory, geometry, quantum mechanics, game theory, statistics, computer science and was a vital member of the Manhattan Project.(pictured above).
Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
Alan Turing a British mathematician who has been call the father of computer science. During World War II, Turing bent his brain to the problem of breaking Nazi crypto-code and was the one to finally unravel messages protected by the infamous Enigma machine. Being able to break Nazi codes gave the Allies an enormous advantage and was later credited by Winston Churchill as one of the main reasons the Allies won the war.
Besides helping to stop Nazi Germany from achieving world domination, Alan Turing was instrumental in the development of the modern day computer. His design for a so-called "Turing machine" remains central to how computers operate today. The "Turing test" is an exercise in artificial intelligence that tests how well an AI program operates; a program passes the Turing test if it can have a text chat conversation with a human and fool that person into thinking that it too is a person.
Alan Turing's career and life ended tragically when he was arrested and prosecuted for being gay. He was found guilty and sentenced to undergo hormone treatment to reduce his libido, losing his security clearance as well. On June, 8, 1954, Alan Turing was found dead of apparent suicide by his cleaning lady.
Turing's contributions to computer science can be summed up by the fact that his name now adorns the field's top award. The Turing Award is to computer science what the Nobel Prize is to chemistry or the Fields Medal is to mathematics. In 2009, then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for how his government treated Turing, but stopped short of issuing an official pardon.
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010) Benoit Mandelbrot landed on this list thanks to his discovery of fractal geometry. Fractals, often-fantastical and complex shapes built on simple, self-replicable formulas, are fundamental to computer graphics and animation. Without fractals, it's safe to say that we would be decades behind where we are now in the field of computer-generated images. Fractal formulas are also used to design cellphone antennas and computer chips, which takes advantage of the fractal's natural ability to minimize wasted space.
Mandelbrot was born in Poland in 1924 and had to flee to France with his family in 1936 to avoid Nazi persecution. After studying in Paris, he moved to the U.S. where he found a home as an IBM Fellow. Working at IBM meant that he had access to cutting-edge technology, which allowed him to apply the number-crunching abilities of electrical computer to his projects and problems. In 1979, Mandelbrot discovered a set of numbers, now called the described by science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke as Mandelbrot set, that were "one of the most beautiful and astonishing discoveries in the entire history of mathematics." (To learn more about the technical steps behind drawing the Mandelbrot set, click over to the infographic I made last year for a class that I'm taking.)
Benoit Mandelbrot died of pancreatic cancer in 2010.
'Imitation Game' trailer gives us Benedict Cumberbatch as code-breaker Alan Turing.
The first trailer for the "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaker Alan Turing, has arrived — and it has Oscar bait written all over it.
The drama tells the true story of gifted British mathematician Alan Turing and his efforts to crack Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code. Taking place during "the darkest days of WWII," audiences will be transported back to Britain’s top-secret code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, where Turing and his team made history.
Turing, widely considered considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, unfortunately was later charged by his own government with "gross indecency," after admitting to having a sexual relationship with another man. Forced to take hormone injections, he was later found dead at age 41 from an apparent suicide.
In recognition of his accomplishments, Queen Elizabeth last year gave Turing a rare posthumous royal pardon. Justice Minister Chris Grayling, who requested the pardon, said the mathematician "deserves to be remembered and recognised for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science. A pardon from the Queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man."
This article by Michael d'Estries and also at MNN.
In the past there was another movie about the Enigma machine.
It will be interesting to compare them, as there is no mention of Alan Turing.It was co-produced by Mick Jagger.
What can you do to bring some of the Smithsonian's 137 million objects to life? Put them in 3D!
This
is a full-time job for two of the Smithsonian's very own "laser
cowboys," Vince Rossi and Adam Metallo, who work in the Smithsonian's 3D
Digitization Program Office. They work hard to document, in very high
three-dimensional detail, many of our priceless and important
collections so that the objects are available for research, education
and general interest.
We got over the moon too soon, Neil Armstrong’s biographer says. VETERAN NBC reporter Jay Barbree
makes a damning point about the US space program as we approach the 45th
anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing: it’s been 42 years since a
manned spacecraft last broke Earth’s orbit. Despite the shuttle program and its contribution to the
International Space Station, Barbree accuses the US and others of
spectacularly failing to follow up once its foray into outer space ended
with Apollo 17 in 1972. And if anybody ought to know, it’s
Barbree, 80, who is now in his 56th year with NBC and has covered the
space program since 1958. He makes the point about failure not just on his own behalf but on behalf of his good friend Neil Armstrong. Barbree
has done something his friend would have found extremely uncomfortable:
he has told Armstrong’s story — from his time as young fighter pilot in
Korea to his career as a test pilot with the X-15 rocket plane and
beyond his historic moon walk. The notoriously private Armstrong, who in his twilight years enjoyed
not being recognised, agreed to a book by his trusted friend late in
his life, but it had barely got under way when he died suddenly after a
heart operation. “He was a friend of Charles Lindbergh, he
developed a friendship with him and Charles told him how to keep private
because he did that after his baby was kidnapped and he lost his
baby,’’ Barbree says. “I tried to explain to Neil the difference was
that Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris was on his own dime and
his backers’, it was a private venture, whereas the taxpayers paid $US25
billion for Apollo to go to the moon and land. Therefore, they signed
contracts at the time that any part of the flight was open to the
public; the public paid for it, they were entitled to know .’’ Armstrong read and approved of the first chapter of what became
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
dealing with his ejection from an F9F Panther after hitting an anti-aircraft wire stretched between two mountains. The
wire ripped off half of Armstrong’s right wing and, after grappling
with his crippled plane, the young pilot was forced to eject. The official report at the time, picked up by military newspaper Stars and Stripes, said Armstrong had hit a wire between power lines, which was something he had always wanted to correct. Barbree
had covered some of Armstrong’s flights in the X-15 but didn’t meet him
until he joined the Gemini Nine, the astronauts who would take the US
space program from the Mercury era into its next phase. But it was the
shared tragedy of the death of young children that would make them
friends. “I knew Neil from just being in the news conferences but
he came in a restaurant that morning where I was and he could tell I was
down so he told me about his little girl that he lost to a brain
tumour,’ says Barbree. “So we got pretty close talking about our
children that we lost and we developed a trusted friendship. In fact,
there are things that Neil told me in confidence that I never put in the
book, and I never will.’’ Barbree’s book provides a riveting
insight into the man history will remember as the first person to step
on a world other than our own, but who had already carved out a name for
himself. He paints a picture of a humble son of small-town
America who never actively sought the honour of being the first man on
the moon but was determined to do the best he could when it arrived. He
was a man of integrity who refused to capitalise on one of humanity’s
greatest achievements and Barbree says there was nothing phony about a
man NBC newscaster Brian Williams once observed could have been as
wealthy as Donald Trump. “In fact, he never considered himself
poor but he never had any money,’’ Barbree says. “He was comfortable
because he was from a small town and he started making his living at the
age of 10 — mowing a local cemetery lawn and he got a dollar a day for
mowing it.’’ Armstrong was recognised by his peers as a phenomenally skilled pilot who was dedicated to getting it right. It
was Armstrong’s commitment to practising on the lunar landing training
vehicle that gave him the skill to land the Eagle after onboard
computers almost dumped it in a crater the size of a football field. But
it was the same man whose aversion to public speaking probably led him
to drop the “a” out of his historic first words and say “one small step
for man” instead of one small step for a man. “He didn’t know,’’
Barbree says of the reason for the mistake. “I thought it felt like a
nervous time for him and knowing the difficulty he had with speech he
probably just dropped the ‘a’. I think he did, too. “It’s like
when they looked around to take a picture of the first footprint on the
moon and it was covered up. He realised that when he went around to
inspect the lunar module he walked over himself and he was quite angry
about that.’’ Generally, however, Armstrong was a man who thought everything out thoroughly. “He
was the slowest person in the world taking a decision on the ground but
he had the fastest hands of any pilot because split-second decisions
(got him) out of trouble,’’ Barbree says. “He was a very unique
individual. A lot of times you would go to speak to Neil and you would
ask Neil a question and you would see his eyes kind of look off and a
lot of times his mouth would start twitching. He’s mulling it over so
you come to the conclusion he doesn’t understand what you asked so you
start asking it again, and out would come the answer.’’ That trust
between the two men meant Barbree was the man Armstrong turned to when,
along with fellow Apollo veterans Jim Lovell (Apollo 13) and Gene
Cernan (Apollo 17), Armstrong wanted to break his silence on the US
space program and he gave the veteran reporter an op-ed written by the
three space veterans. It was Barbree again who helped write a series of
articles about the space program in the present decade and who also
helped Armstrong with his testimony before the 2010 Senate hearings on
NASA. Armstrong was dismayed by America’s failure to capitalise on the moon landing and to move incrementally further into space. “And
he didn’t appreciate that, because he never understood after what they
did to go land on the moon, we left,’’ the author says. “That made no
sense. It still doesn’t today.’’ Armstrong was also unhappy about
the fuss made about commercial attempts to get into space and do what
essentially had been done before. Barbree says Richard Branson’s Virgin
Galactic is fine but is not doing anything that wasn’t done in the
1960s, and it is not exploration. “Exploration is developing
something new and we haven’t been developing anything new in manned
space flight now really for 42 years,’’ he says. “That’s the way I look
at it. Not to go knock them but this is what Neil thought about it and …
Neil suggested doing it increments and this is what we should be doing. “We
should be increasing our knowledge of going farther and farther in
space because we’re all occupants of a spacecraft 8000 miles in diameter
and it’s finite, it’s not going to be able to support us always. So if
we can’t get off — because this is really our cradle — if we can’t get
out of our cradle and go out and explore, we’re doomed. “That’s the end of the human species.’’ Barbree
admits much has been learned from the International Space Station but
he notes it remains in Earth’s magnetosphere, which gives us protection
against radiation. But he agrees with Armstrong about the need to
go back to the moon and from there to the gravity balancing Lagrangian
points to learn more. “And it’s the only sensible thing to do,’’
he says, noting the folly of building a spacecraft capable of going
directly to Mars without developing our knowledge of space flight and
knowing how to survive on our own in space. “(Neil) felt that
until we knew how to survive on our own in space we should never be more
than three days from Earth or three seconds from being able to talk to
mission control. “Because when you go to land on Mars it’s going
to take nine minutes and something on average for that signal to get
back to Earth. So mission control’s not going to be any help to you.’’ Barbree
believes that a mission to Mars could well be one way and should be
preceded by a barrage of unmanned rockets landing supplies. He likens it
to the wild west wagon trains, and envisages a colony being set up
first before two-way traffic is developed. Despite the
disappointing aftermath to the Apollo program, Barbree hopes that the
new Space Launch System and Orion program presage a new US thrust into
space. An unmanned Orion vehicle is due to orbit the moon in 2017 but
Barbree is optimistic that if a first flight in December is successful,
there will be pressure for a manned flight in 2017. A number of
astronauts have told him they will be pushing for this outcome. “That
can get us out of low Earth orbit and we’ve got to be able to do
that,’’ he says. “And then once we do that and once we start exploring
again … beyond low Earth orbit, then I think people will get excited and
the knowledge stockpile will increase.’’ By Steve Creedy
Jay Barbree broadcasts live Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon. With many thanks to The Australian From You Tube: Original Mission Video as aired in July 1969 depicting the Apollo 11
astronauts conducting several tasks during extravehicular activity (EVA)
operations on the surface of the moon. The EVA lasted approximately
2.5 hours with all scientific activities being completed satisfactorily. The Apollo 11 (EVA) began at 10:39:33 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969 when
Astronaut Neil Armstrong emerged from the spacecraft first. While
descending, he released the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly on
the Lunar Module's descent stage. A camera on this module provided live
television coverage of man's first step on the Moon. On this, their one
and only EVA, the astronauts had a great deal to do in a short time.
During this first visit to the Moon, the astronauts remained within
about 100 meters of the lunar module, collected about 47 pounds of
samples, and deployed four experiments. After spending approximately 2
hours and 31 minutes on the surface, the astronauts ended the EVA at
1:11:13 a.m. EDT on July 21.
Iconic Apollo 11 View of Earth Turns 45
On July 21, 1969 — 45 years ago — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the face of the moon.
The televised views of lunar desolation are the most famous images from this mission, Apollo 11. But Armstrong, Aldrin and their third crew-member, Michael Collins, got some gorgeous views of Earth, too.
This "blue marble" image of Earth against the blackness of space was
taken July 16, 1969, the same day Apollo 11 launched from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
Most of what is visible here is the Pacific Ocean, though portions of
California, the Pacific coast and Alaska peak through swirling clouds. A
Hasselblad 500 EL camera captured this shot.
The trip from Earth to the moon took three days. The crew launched at 9:32 a.m. local time from Florida,
after a breakfast of steak, eggs, coffee and orange juice. Within 12
minutes from launch, they were in Earth orbit. From there, they fired
their third-stage Saturn V engine (the first two phases had already been
jettisoned) and set a course for the Sea of Tranquility on the moon's
surface.
The first day was calm and orderly, and gave the crew time to "ooh" and
"ahh" over Earth's scenery. In the flight transcripts, Aldrin tells
Mission Control that he can see snow on the mountains in California and a
clear, smog-free view of Los Angeles. When asked how Baja, California,
looks, Aldrin says, "Well, it's got some clouds up and down it, and
there's a pretty good circulation system a couple of hundred miles off
the west coast of California … OK, Houston. You suppose you could turn
the Earth a little bit so we could get a little bit more than just
water?"
People on Earth would get a taste of what the astronauts saw the next
day, July 17, 1969, when the crew participated in a color television
broadcast from 147,300 miles (237,000 kilometers) away.
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NATURE tracks down the cockiest characters in the land down under in Parrots in the Land of Oz.
We
keep them in cages in our homes, but in their natural state they are
independent birds who can seek out water over hundreds of miles through
pure instinct. We feed them seed from a pet store, but they can find
food in a wide variety of habitats. We give them plastic toys and
mirrors to play with when in fact in the wild some have figured out how
to use tools to communicate and attract mates.
For tens of
millions of years, parrots have survived and thrived in Australia even
as the continent underwent dramatic changes, including some brought
about by man. Though some, like the golden-shouldered Parrot are
threatened, these tough Aussies have adapted well to deal with harsh
life in the outback. Clever, resourceful, opportunistic and resilient,
parrots may be Australia's toughest survivors, and they're certainly its
most beautiful.
Picture below is not of Australian parrots but I think all parrots are worth looking at. They are quite spectacular!
Here are some more:
Below via Twitter: Lorikeets. These beautiful birds come to my garden twice a day.
A bit late but a very important event for many rock fans!
I like to remember him as he appears in this clip and I am sure you have your own favourite memories of The King.
Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. (EPE) is announcing plans and debuting
artwork today for a yearlong celebration to commemorate Elvis’ first
professional recording, considered by many music historians to be the
birth of the rock ‘n’ roll music movement. Joining EPE’s CEO Jack Soden
for the announcement will be Kevin Kane, President of the Memphis
Convention and Visitors Bureau and Jayne Ellen Brooks from Sun Studio.
On July 5, 1954, Elvis walked into Sun Studio in Memphis and recorded a
sped up version of Arthur Crudup’s “That’s All Right” with guitarist
Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black. Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips first
played the song July 8, 1954 on WHBQ radio and the switchboard lit up,
the song was repeated fourteen times in a row during the “Red HOT and
Blue” broadcast due to public demand. Rock ‘n’ Roll was born and the
world of music changed forever.
Kicking off the year-long celebration in 2014 is the New Year’s Eve Hard
Rock Café Guitar Drop on world famous Beale Street. Thousands will
gather on the famed blues alley in Memphis to take in live music and
watch a 10-foot guitar wrapped in the 60 years of Rock ‘n’ Roll art as
it descends 100 feet onto Beale Street at midnight in the Central time
zone.
On January 8th, fans from around the world will gather at Graceland to
celebrate the birth of the undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll as a cake
fit for a king is cut during the Elvis Presley Day Proclamation
Ceremony. Events continue through the 11th and include a concert by the
Memphis Symphony Orchestra as they showcase symphonic interpretations of
the songs that helped give Memphis the title of Birthplace of Rock ‘n’
Roll.
A special exhibition will open at Graceland on March 3, 2014 showcasing
Elvis’ impact on music and popular culture over the past 60 years and
chronicling the birth of rock ‘n’ roll . The vaults of the Graceland
Archives have been opened to help develop this unique exhibit that will
be included as part of the Graceland VIP Tour.
The site of Elvis’ first professional recording session, Sun Studio,
will be the site of a global celebration on July 5th as Memphis and the
world mark the birth of rock ‘n’ roll with Elvis Presley’s recording of
“That’s All Right.” Additional details for festivities planned at the
famed Memphis recording studio will be announced at a later date.
The impressive ‘ELVIS PRESLEY – ON STAGE’
music experience will kick off a 23 date tour of the United Kingdom
starting in April through the end of May, taking the 60th Anniversary
celebration on the road to Europe. Using the latest technology, Elvis
performs via state-of-the art video screens singing lead vocals backed
by a live band, singers and an orchestra. Together, this multi-media
creation puts the audience inside an Elvis Presley concert presented
exactly like one of his classic live performances in a Las Vegas
showroom. The contemporary staging and overall production create the
illusion that Elvis is on stage for his finest concert performances. The
concert tour schedule is available here, with tickets on sale on September 6, 2013.
During the 60th Anniversary year, the Elvis® Fans Holy Land Tour will
take place February 23 - March 4, 2014. Fans will have the chance to
explore the Gospel side of Elvis with an Israel tour experience unlike
any other.
Travelers will cruise the Sea of Galilee, experience the
Western Wall and ancient city of Jerusalem, float in the Dead Sea, roam
the beaches of Tel Aviv, experience baptism in the Jordan River and much
more. More information and how to reserve a spot at Israelthemetours.com/elvis.
An anniversary year of this magnitude will also include the debut of a
variety of officially licensed products featuring the 60th Anniversary
of Rock ‘n’ Roll artwork. Elvis.com will also celebrate the 60th
Anniversary music milestone with an online clock countdown to July 5th,
2014.
A schedule of events for the yearlong celebration, an online countdown
clock and additional details about planned festivities can be found at Elvis.com/60years.
