Category: Technology
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CES 2014 VIDEO: BOOM Swimmer Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
See Crave Online It may be easy to laugh at the design of the BOOM Swimmer Wireless Bluetooth speaker, but when you start thinking about the functionality that the BOOM guys (that stands for Born On Original Motives, in case you were curious) have tapped into with that prehensile tail, it probably won’t seem quite that…
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Behold DigitalRev’s Kai faking a $25,000 Hasselblad H3D photo with a GoPro
A fun (and geeky) episode out of DigitalRev’s Fake a Big Shot video series, in which Kai Man Wong has to replicate a classic dive photo that Chase Jarvis shot with a Hasselblad H3D worth $25,000. ” I gave him 8 hours … and a GoPro Hero3PLUS ($399) to get it done.” [chasejarvis.com] And Kai…
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In Australia, Sharks Use Twitter To Warn Swimmers
Read key103 Sharks in Western Australia swimming close to popular beaches are using Twitter to send warning messages to surfers and swimmers. The unique project means beach goers can make an informed decision about whether to go in the water knowing a shark is nearby. Scientists have attached transmitters to more than 320 sharks, including…
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Google Glass Deployed During Warms Ups at Day 2 – 2013 Speedo Junior Nationals
“Thanks to Kelly McCommons @kellyjamestv” Watch this video on YouTube
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Michael Phelps Legend Series by Master Spas
Introducing the all new 2014 Michael Phelps Legend Series by Master Spas. http://youtu.be/B31vU6DHq9g
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How two guys mapped all the pools in Los Angeles
Read Los Angeles Times “Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra. Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their…
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…
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New Methods for Detecting Anabolic Steroids Lead to Hundreds of Positive Doping Tests
Read PR Newswire and ARD In recent months, two European doping control laboratories have – largely unnoticed – discovered an alarmingly high number of doping cases using improved detection methods. Based on information from the editorial staff who work on doping at the German public television broadcaster ARD, the laboratories in Cologne and Moscow have…
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Naulu – A new vision for your training
Monitoring System for Swimming Technique Features, see naulu.net Watch this video on YouTube