Category: Fun
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Canada’s new currency is see-through, stretchy and waterproof
It’s official, Canada’s now has money ready for you to tuck into your bathing suit and take for a swim. And it’s plastic, and it’s see-through. The $100 bill is out now (who needs less?), the $50 bill coming next March, and the rest in circulation by 2013. They’re not the first though to have…
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“Mr Unstoppable” training for his Mississippi swim
Injured Marine Jay Platt trains to cross the Mississippi River handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded. And yes, he managed to complete the swim.
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Waterproof your iPhone by spraying NeverWetâ„¢ on it ?
NeverWetâ„¢ is a patent-pending, silicon-based superhydrophobic spray-on coating or paint by Ross Nanotechnology that deflects nearly all liquids, heavy oils, ice, corrosion, bacteria etc so extremely much better than for instance Teflon, that NeverWet-infused materials “have remained under seawater for over a year and reemerged completely dry.” It will apparently make anything waterproof that you…
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Hilarious interview with ‘Michael Phelps’
Kiki interviewing ‘Michael Phelps’ about his extreme diet. They are actually quite well informed :-D
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UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video
OK, University of Kentucky, you win :-) UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video from UK Sports Video on Vimeo.
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Swimming Cup 2009 – remember the supersuits ?
Nice, maybe a bit nostalgic: “It don’t matter, cause cause have never been better. No not ever, life has never been better.” Is that Alexander Dale Oen swimming breaststroke without a bodysuit ? Swimming Cup 2009 from Paolo De Matteo on Vimeo.
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Capturing surf tricks in bullet time with 30 GoPros
Timeslice Films and Rip Curl are at it again, freezing surf tricks in Matrix-style “bullet time”, now using an array of 30 GoPro cameras. Via PetaPixel. They’ve done it before, then using 52 Canon Rebel DSLR’s. But with the GoPros, the solution is waterproof :-)
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Wow, Sun Yang is quite the crooner
Breaking news from SwimmingWorld Magazine on Twitter, 1500 meter world champion Sun Yang has a golden voice (!) Now, I believe I have a video clip somewhere with Pál Joensen singing, so perhaps we have a long-distance X-Factor competition on our hands ?