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Because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.


WINNERS OF THE LUCKY DRAW!

Waiting to be shipped to the lucky draw winners!

From the techies who have interacted with the World’s First Digitally
Interactive Pookalam (flower carpet) and participated in the lucky draw,
following names (first name and organization’s name) have been drawn at random
to be the winners! Congratulations to you all!

 1.  Ananthakrishnan, IBS Software
 2.  Bhavyalakshmi, Envestnet Retirement Solutions
 3.  Gokul, Allianz Technology
 4.  Kadeeja, Tata Elxsi
 5.  Manu, RR Donnelley
 6.  Maxvel, Veristics Networks
 7.  Nikhila, Speridian Technologies
 8.  Noufal, UST Global
 9.  Reshma, PIT Solution
 10. *Shinto, Techmahindra
 11. *Suguna, H&R Block
 12. Vinod, SC Soft technologies

*Update: Hi Shinto and Suguna, our attempts to contact you were unsuccessful.
Please call 0471-2547565 to claim your prizes.

In addition to the memorabilia that we have created specially to mark the
occasion, winners will also receive an Amazon gift coupon.

We had an overwhelming response and that prompted us to select twelve winners
instead of the initially announced three. We thank each one of you who have
participated. Hope you had fun too

Thank you very much!

Posted bysysteamSeptember 25, 2019October 1, 2019Posted inPlay.MettleTags:
Onam2019, Pookalam2019


WORLD’S FIRST, FULLY FLORAL, INTERACTIVE POOKALAM IN THE MEDIA

This flower carpet conceptualized and laid by engineers at Mettle Networks was
widely admired and picked up by media for its ingenuity.

ONLINE MEDIA

Following is a set of links to media stories covering this techno-art creation.

 1.  Scan this ‘pookkalam’ and win prizes!, Times of India
 2.  പടമെടുത്താൽ പ്രതികരിക്കും, ടെക്കികളുടെ ക്യു.ആർ പൂക്കളം, Kerala Kaumudi
 3.  World’s first, fully floral interactive pookkalam at Technopark, Indian
     Express
 4.  Techies’ Onam surprise with first interactive ‘QR code Pookkalam’, The New
     Indian Express
 5.  World’s first, fully floral interactive pookkalam at Technopark, Times
     Direct
 6.  ഇന്ററാക്ടിവ് പൂക്കളവുമായി ടെക്കികൾ, Asiaville News
 7.  Techies witnesses world’s first fully-floral, interactive ‘Pookkalam’ at
     Technopark, eVartha
 8.  Technopark made the ‘world’s first, fully floral interactive pookkalam’ in
     the form of QR code,  Deccan Chronicle
 9.  Techies’ Onam surprise with first interactive ‘QR code Pookkalam’, Nyoooz
 10. Orumayode Oronam 2019 | Pookkalam & Tug-of-War, Natana (Facebook page)

NEWSPAPER COVERAGE

The news was covered by more than 7 national and Malayalam newspapers. Some
published it in front page. Here are a few clippings.

Malayala Manorama daily, 3 September 2019 Kerala Kaumudi daily, 3 September 2019
The New Indian Express daily, 3 September 2019 Mathrubhumi daily, Nagaram
supplement, 3 September 2019 The Times of India daily, 3 September 2019 Siraj
daily, Onam suppliment, 11 September 2019

Besides this, the team members were interviewed by Big FM, Kochi. This approach
for creating pookalam set a new trend and there were many organizations,
colleges and individual groups that picked up the concept and used similar
designs for their 2019 Ona-pookalam (flower carpet).

We thank the media for helping us to spread the idea across to a larger mass
past Technopark’s boarders! We also thank all those sent us encouraging
comments!

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See also: World’s First, Fully Floral, Digitally Interactive Pookkalam (Flower
Carpet)

Posted bysysteamSeptember 25, 2019September 25, 2019Posted inPlay.Mettle,
TechnoArtTags: Onam2019, Pookalam2019, WorldsFirst


WORLD’S FIRST, FULLY FLORAL, DIGITALLY INTERACTIVE POOKKALAM (FLOWER CARPET)

Engineers see things in their own perspective—always with a touch of tech in
them.

Visitors interacting with the pookkalam

When it was time to create a Pookkalam for Natana’s Orumayode Onam Pookkalam
competition held on 2 September 2019 at Technopark, engineers at Mettle Networks
thought of creating one with a difference as a form of self expression—they
created world’s first, fully floral, interactive Pookkalam (flower carpet) .

When looked at it first, it appeared to be a different kind of layout and
design. It didn’t confirm to what traditionally Malayalees consider a Pookkalam.
It has a different shape. Different patterns. It would take a while to
understand its beauty and ingenuity.

What is So special About this Flower Carpet?
This Pookkalam, though it is made fully of flower petals and laid on the floor,
if you try to take a photo of this Pookkalam, your phone will recognize
something in it and it will respond! Yes! Before you even take its photo, your
phone will tell you that the Pookkalam is suggesting you visit a website! If you
proceed, you will be taken to an Onam greetings page on Mettle Networks’ web
site where you could enter an Onam Lucky-draw!

How is it done?
This Pookkalam has digital data encoded in it that mobile phones will understand
and respond without any special command or third-party app. The technology used
is same as that of QR code. QR code has a square geometry but it looks a bit
different from a regular QR code in its shape. It looks more like a trapezoid.
Because it has to undergo an optical correction called inverse perspective to
make it work in this case.

This Pookkalam has digital data encoded in it that mobile phones will understand
and respond without any special command or third-party app. The technology used
is same as that of QR code. QR code has a square geometry but this Pookkalam
looks a bit different from a regular QR code in its shape. It looks more like a
trapezoid. This is because it has to undergo an optical correction called
reverse perspective to make it work in this case.

Interested to know more about this? Please watch out this space.

Posted bysysteamSeptember 24, 2019September 25, 2019Posted inPlay.Mettle,
TechnoArtTags: Onam2019, Pookalam2019, WorldsFirst
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