Category: Technology
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Instabeat promises to track your pulse with a swim goggle head-up display
Remember ButterflEYE, the goggles that measure your heart rate while swimming? Well, that award-winning product has developed into Instabeat, a more streamlined and waterproof head-up monitor that displays instant feedback of your heart rate in your swim goggles, while at the same time tracking other parameters like laps swum and breathing pattern. In the video…
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Camera found after 5,000-mile underwater journey
Erin Burnett interviews the owner of an underwater camera lost during a 2007 Hawaiian vacation and found in Taiwan.
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Marine Scientists use Google Street View to share images
Philippe Cousteau joins scientists using Google Street View to share their incredible underwater images online. See also Catlin Seaview Survey.
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Scottish Gas National Age Groups Swimming Championships 2013 Preview
The Scottish Gas National Age Groups Swimming Championships are held from 10 – 14 April in the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. You can follow the event with daily reports on YouTube and also live at www.scottishswimming.com/live See also their promo video
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Behold the Virginia Tech Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish jellobot
I guess it could be used for all kinds of things, like (as planned) ocean monitoring, sea-sickening underwater footage, or just to make us pee even more in the pool. See Engadget Virginia Tech: Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish from virginiatech on Vimeo.
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How to Capture Audio at an Event
Important stuff at swim meets, because of the background noise and loud start signals etc. Zoom H1 it will be for me, or something similar :-) See more on OliviaTech
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We have a winner: Ziphius the Aquatic Drone !
Awesome news on Engadget, for those of us that rooted for Ziphius, the smartphone-controlled aquatic drone :-) Now that our Insert Coin: New Challengers contestants had duked it out and the judges have made their decision, we have a winner: Ziphius. Not only did the bot win $20,000 thanks to deliberation by our judges, but it came home with our…
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Alright, ‘our’ drone Ziphius is in the final (!)
Remember Ziphius, the smartphone controlled aquatic drone? Well, with the help of also our votes, they made it past the semi-final, and are now among the five finalists to be demoed on stage, eligible to win the $20,000 Grand Prize and $5,000 Reader’s Choice Award. Fingers crossed, here is a hands-on video courtesy of Engadget ……
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Robotic swim buddy Swimoid snaps your stroke from below
Read NewScientist NOT feeling your front crawl? Breaststroke a little off-kilter? Not to worry, a robotic swimming buddy can help you out. Swimoid is a robot that glides along the pool floor underneath you as you swim, monitoring your form and providing real-time feedback on a 50-centimetre LCD screen. Two cameras, one built into the front…