Category: Technology
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The Art of Shooting Underwater Portraits
Photographer Jean Luis De Heeckeren visits Austria for a unique underwater photo shoot with Red Bull kayaker Viktoria Wolffhardt. Take a look behind the lense at the setup, planning, and execution it takes to produce underwater imagery Courtesy of Red Bull on YouTube
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RC Plane Crashes Into the Sea and Captures Beautiful Underwater Scenes
MrLiftHog was flying his camera-equipped RC plane one afternoon when he became disoriented by the glare of the sun and accidentally crashed his plane into the waters below. The plane was supposed to capture some aerial imagery, but it ended up seeing beautiful sights as an underwater camera. See PetaPixel
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Gnawing sharks force Google to protect internet cables with Kevlar
If you have been experiencing painfully longer ping times or hair-pulling latencies in your internet, you might have to blame someone else other than your internet service provider. As it turned out, a shark had been angrily chomping on the underwater cables that ferry data across the continents. Over the past two months, ruptures have…
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TU Delft student develops fast-flying defibrillator-equipped “Ambulance Drone”
Developed by Belgian engineering graduate Alec Momont, it can fly at speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour (60 miles per hour). “Around 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the European Union every year and only 8.0 percent survive,” Momont, 23, said at the TU Delft University. “The main reason for this is…
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QuadH2o Designs New Drone for Capturing Aerial and Underwater Video
The creators of the QuadH2o quadcopter have developed a new drone designed to shoot video in the air as well as underwater. This quadcopter, called HexH2o, is designed with an epoxy fiber/carbon fiber body that is waterproof and can float, and is the Thailand-based company’s original creation, according to Gizmag. As a result, users can fly…
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Swim Smooth Coaching System Demonstration
Swim Smooth’s Coaching System – available now for your smart phone, tablet or computer!
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The Navy’s New Robot Looks and Swims Just Like a Shark
The American military does a lot of work in the field of biomimicry, stealing designs from nature for use in new technology. After all, if you’re going to design a robot, where better to draw inspiration than from billions of years of evolution? The latest result of these efforts is the GhostSwimmer: The Navy’s underwater…
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Swim Tracking App – Computerphile
Indoor navigation is tricky enough but try doing it in a swimming pool! Joe tells us how he’s developed technology that could give you instant feedback on your swimming.
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This Is What Happens When Scientists Go Surfing
Scientists and Surfers travel to Mexico to test technology in hope of improving athlete performance. The goal of the Red Bull Surf Science project is not to revolutionize the way we approach surfing, or even try to elevate it to next level, instead the objective is to further the technology that is being developed, and…