Category: Technology
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Swimming tips with Pete Jacobs
Checking my stroke and offering some technique tips to think about. Swimming in my Endless Pool, practicing in a new blueseventy wetsuit. This Helix is the same as 2015, but with slightly shorter legs for an easier/quicker transition, and also with some custom printing. There’s lot’s of different ways to swim, but here is my…
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SwimTopia – Swim Team Software You’ll Love
Customers share why they love SwimTopia. SwimTopia Founder, Mason Hale and Director of Sales & Marketing, Elli Overton explain why they are so passionate about serving swim teams. See SwimTopia
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GoPro livestreamed a shark swim on Periscope using a simple cable and an iPhone
To show just what’s possible when you use your iPhone to livestream from a GoPro camera using Periscope, GoPro Thursday livestreamed a dive featuring famed wingsuit flyers / base jumpers Jeb Corliss and Roberta Mancino and some great hammerhead sharks. Read CNET LIVE on #Periscope: Testing out the GoPro underwater with bull sharks and hopefully a great…
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Powerskin Carbon Ultra by arena
For over 40 years, arena has been developing cutting-edge racing swimwear built on a foundation of in-depth research, technical know-how, and an unyielding commitment to quality. Since 2000, the brand’s top-of-the-range POWERSKIN family of suits has consistently set the benchmark for high performance swimwear for all levels of swimmer, from the Olympic champion to the…
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TritonWear – Live Speed and Stroke Efficiency Data From Entire Team With Zero Effort
TritonWear develops wearable technology that enables better coaching – which creates superior athletes. TritonWear has developed a small, non-invasive unit that connects to the back of a swimmers goggle strap to calculate 15 key performance metrics for each athlete and sends that data to a coaches tablet in real time for every athlete in the…
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How to Create Water Illusions Using a Camera
What you’ll need is some running water, a digital camera, a speaker, and a tone generator app. By sending a bass tone through the speaker at a frequency that matches up with the frame rate of your camera (e.g. 24hz bass tone and your camera recording at 24fps), the water will look like it’s frozen…
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The Most Genius Solution to Australia’s Shark Problem Just Got in the Water
In the last few years, shark hysteria has reached all-time highs.There have been many different proposed solutions: sharks on Twitter, declaring open season for shark fishermen, netting beaches, and of course, hanging ragged chunks of meat off giant hooks, baiting them in, then killing them and dragging them out to sea. One solution stand out…
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Sea Lion Takes Underwater Selfies At Long Beach Aquarium
The art of taking a “selfie†is no longer just for humans. Now, sea mammals are able to join in on the fun. Hugh Ryono, who is a trainer at the Aquarium of the Pacific, recently constructed a selfie stick for sea lions to use underwater. “I just thought it would be neat to see…
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Swimbot is a smart device that corrects your swim technique in real time
Currently raising funds through crowdfunding website Indiegogo, Swimbot is a new high-tech device that helps users improve their swimming technique by correcting movements in real time. This lightweight device weighs just 60g and is backed by Olympic champions such as Rowdy Gaines (USA) and Alain Bernard (France). It’s currently available to pre-order via Indiegogo. See…