Category: Technology
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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
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Faulty swimming pool light suspected of almost killing girl
A faulty underwater light is suspected of shocking and nearly killing a 15-year-old Garden Grove girl swimming in her family’s pool. Her father, a dentist, is certified in CPR, and worked on his daughter until the paramedics arrived, most possibly saving her. Read for instance Los Angeles Times and KTLA
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George Haines and Fred Schmidt on the Butterfly
At the 1961 AAU National Swimming and Diving Championships, George Haines describes the butterfly technique to Bud Palmer while high school sensation Fred Schmidt demonstrates. Fred won gold at the 1964 Olympic Game, later became a Navy Seal and helped recover several Apollo space crafts on their return from the moon.
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Inside Tracker, a service used by Olympians to improve internal health (and thereby performance)
To help prepare for track meets, competitive 5K races and especially the Olympics, Boston-based runner Ruben Sanca runs 116 miles per week, takes vitamins and mostly watches his diet. But he would still feel fatigued after training runs. Then a blood analysis and a special software program revealed his internal chemistry needed some adjusting. Read…
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Behold the amazing Twinscam used to show synchronized swimming at London 2012
Synchronized swimming has never looked so good thanks to the Twinscam, invented by Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2010, simultaneously showing swimmer’s torsos above water and their legs below it. A solution to a common problem in water events, that because of the way light refracts and reflects differently above and below water, heavy image processing…