Category: Fun
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Textiles that turn transparent in time with heart beat?
Studio Roosegaarde has created this line of high-tech clothing know as “Intimacy 2.0”, that turn more and more transparent, the faster you heart beats. Myes, maybe the other way around in swimming, for training purposes … ‘anything under 130 bpm and your butt will show!’ Via Buzzfeed
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Welcome to the Rovaniemi 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships
The 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships will be in the Lapland city of Rovaniemi, close to the Arctic circle, official hometown of Santa Claus 20-23 March 2014. Notice that in their preliminary program, the first day is reserved to Accreditation and … Acclimatization, I fear that that’s about where the warmness stops ;-) Also please…
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Experimental game Deep Sea terrifies with blindness, limited breathing
In the underwater horror game Deep Sea, you strap on a mask that takes away your vision and limits your breathing, to start fighting alien monsters in the abyss by trying to localize, aim and fire at them using only your hearing, to the point where you have to surpress your breathing in order to…
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What would you do if you were on Canada’s Got Talent?
Warning, Annamay Pierse tries burping the alphabet in this video.
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Battle of the Bulges – Female gym training 1940s style
I’m 99% sure a man invented these machines
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TYR launches FastStache – Faceborn Speed Gear
“In preparation for the London Games, the TYR research and development team has unveiled the most advanced technical innovation to ever hit the face of swimming, The FastStache. The next breakthrough in swimming is right under your nose. Keep a fast upper lip and get your fast face on. ” Read more here on SwimmingWorld…
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Wow, the highest shallow dive world record is 11.20 m (36 ft 8.96 in)
The highest shallow dive was from a height of 11.20 m (36 ft 8.94 in) into 30 cm (12 in) of water and was achieved by Darren Taylor (a.k.a. Professor Splash, USA) in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, on 26 November 2011. See the Guinness Book of World Records.
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World’s first live Google+ underwater hangout from Great Barrier reef this Friday
Award winning documentarian Richard Fitzpatrick, together with the team from the Catlin Seaview Survey, will be hanging out on Google+ from beneath the sea LIVE from the Great Barrier Reef this Friday March 30 at 3:45 p.m. Sydney Time (that’s early Friday morning 04:45.00 UTC in Europe). Leave your questions and comments for the divers…
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Lost GoPro camera reunited with owner after 10 months at sea
Zach Wilson, an adventure sports enthusiast and film-maker was paddle-boarding off North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May of last year with a friend, when his GoPro digital camera went missing. Ten months later, on February 28, he got an unexpected surprise when the friend he was with at the time spotted what he thought was…