Category: Technology
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New world record for highest freefall lifeboat
Norwegian lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has set a new freefall lifeboat record with its new generation FF1200 boat. The boat was successfully dropped from a freefall height of 60 meters, unmanned but loaded with seven tonnes to simulate the full capacity of 70 100kg people (read: average size of sailors ;-), as part of…
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Stanford researchers believe cooling glove more potent than steroids
Read Stanford University News, a rapid thermal exchange device nicknamed ‘the glove’ creates a vacuum to draw blood to the surface of the palms, where cold circulating water then cools the blood, which returns to the core and rapidly lowers the body’s core temperature. Greatly improving exercise recovery and performance, ‘better than steroids’. Via POPSCI
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CC photo #243: A stressful moment at Shanghai 2011
The view from our seats just minutes before the last day of finals at the Shanghai 2012 World Swimming Championships. They had it ready in time ! :-)
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CC photo #242: A well-equipped photographer at Rijeka 2008
Don’t take my word for it, but I think he is Swiss.
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Camera found at bottom of plunge pool, last video shows how it got there
This video shows why an extra floater strap is a good idea. Uploaded by YouTube user BackyardJim, it’s the last video on the memory card of a camera found at the bottom of a plunge pool near Woodstock, NY. He is looking for the owner, see PetaPixel
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Water Light Grafitti
The “Water Light Graffiti” is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Sweet. Via Google Creative Sandbox on Google+ Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in…
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Behold, a working Lego Submarine
We need more bricks !! Via übergizmo Lego builder “Brane†managed to discover a way of creating a Lego submarine which is fully capable of navigating through an aquarium, but gave no promises of it being watertight. What made it more attractive was the fact that you could control this remotely using an Xbox controller,…
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CC photo #230: International team GoPro on Nólsoyarfjørð
A journalist from IMG / Trans World Sport filming Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal with a GoPro on a boom during the “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012” open water race from Tórshavn to Nólsoy on August 11th, 2012. Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Federation also filming her in the background with his, and me photographing the situation with…
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Tracks HD headphones from SOL Republic, the choice of Michael Phelps
He wore them at the London 2012 Olympics, so let’s give them a shameless plug. Geeks verdict is Gold: “If they’re good enough for Michael Phelps, I figured that I’d give them a listen. I was pleasantly surprised, but regrettably they did nothing for my performance in the pool.”See ZD Net