Category: Technology
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Stat̻ra Client Testimonial РMike Unger, USA Swimming
“Statêra is a leading IT services provider that helps companies to optimize performance by mapping strategic goals and objectives to IT initiatives. With over a decade of experience, Statêra leverages best practices and uses today’s top technology solutions to provide powerful insight into your enterprise, solve your mission-critical problems, drive return on investment and transform…
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Google I/O 2013 – Dive Into Underwater Street View
30+ minutes of geekdom, bear with me Google and Catlin Seaview Survey‘s Richard Vevers have partnered together to bring the first ever underwater street view imagery to Google Maps. Learn how Catlin Seaview Survey has built a special camera to collect this spectacular surround imagery.
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Behold this awesome underwater bullet time ad created in South Africa
Via PetaPixel Portugal’s Krypton Films, in collaboration with production company Moonlighting and marine support company Frog Squad, recently succeeded in filming what they claim to be South Africa’s first ever underwater time slice for an Aqua Das Pedras mineral water commercial.
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Google Maps the Oceans for Underwater Street View, and You can Help
We’ve mentioned the Catlin Seaview Survey before, where underwater footage is recorded for scientists and the rest of us to enjoy and use, in order to assess the state of coral reefs over time. They have been using a pretty high-tech 360-degree panoramic camera called the Catlin Seaview SVII, but with smart phone camera capabilities…
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Instabeat raises $21K in 12 days, two thirds there with 49 days left
Instabeat‘s funding campaign on Indiegogo is going so well that inventor Hind Hobeika and her team are starting to think that they should have had a higher goal. As of this moment $21,321 of 35,000 goal with 49 days to go. See also this feature on Gizmag yesterday and this one on Ãœbergizmo.
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CC photo #483: Video analysis crew ready at Kalev Spa
Just a photo from Tallinn, Estonia back in January 2009, when we visited Rein Haljand for a bit of video analysis of Pál Joensen. Haljand’s son Holger ready with the camera cart, Jón Bjarnason ready to move the back stroke flags out of the way. A really nice pool and hotel, the Kalev Spa.
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Behold Fake Shower, the app that disguises your bathroom noises
Via Laughing Squid Should you feel shy about the noises you make in the bathroom, the folks at Akatu have developed an iOS app to disguise them called Fake Shower. It emulates the sound of running water (either from a shower or open tap) and measures how much water you’ve saved by using the app…
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The Instabeat swim HUD raises $11K in 5 days
Stuff is happening for Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika and her team of engineers – Since launching their Indigogo fundraising campaign last week to help get the Instabeat swimming monitor to market, they have now raised $11,145 dollars of the $35,000 goal, with 57 days left. Wamda asks if this is ‘The Arab World’s Hottest Hardware…