Category: Technology
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Tracking the wave of success for Team GB’s swimmers
Training sessions for Team GB’s swimmers have been getting a helping hand from a new system incorporating cutting-edge movement tracking and sensor technologies. Read more here on phys.org and watch the video below.
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Scientists to strap cameras to Hawaiian seals
With local fishermen blaming the endangered Hawaiian monk seals for stealing their catch, government scientists plan to glue submersible cameras onto the seals’ backs, using the footage to prove to fishermen the animals are not harming their way of life, maybe even ending up on reality TV. With the image quality of rugged action cameras…
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CC photo #167: Cineflex HiDEF on deck at Debrecen 2012
Sweet camera system on deck at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, the Cineflex HiDEF with gyro-stabilization to provide smooth shots in the air, at sea and on rough terrain. Logo upside down because it is usually mounted on helicopters and stuff like that.
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Underwater 5.1 surround sound captured for documentary
The Canon Crackers of the Pistol Shrimp is an eight-minute teaser for a proposed feature-length called Sound of the Oceans and has been made using a new method of capturing high-quality surround sound underwater, believed to be the first ever made with ‘real underwater surround sound’. Warning, featuring “a seriously terrible voice-over”, via Televisual Canon…
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Michael Phelps is ‘the boy in the bubble’
Michael Phelps on how he sleeps in an altitude chamber. Warning: Annoying background music.
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See heart rates in plain sight with “Eulerian Video Magnification”
Researchers at MIT have developed a process called “Eulerian Video Magnification” to ‘reveal temporal variations in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye and display them in an indicative manner. In real-time, code soon to be released so that we one day might get this technology for instance with Google’s…
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Swumanoid the humanoid sheds light on the mechanics of swimming
Behold Swumanoid, a bot created by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, to reproduce a swimmer’s full body movement and measure water resistance in an effort to shed some light on the forces acting on swimmers. Not so fast yet, PB 2:30 over 100 meters, but maybe one day … Via Engadget
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Myes, maybe we should have ‘motivating robots’
Behold the Joggobot, a hovercraft that will fly about your head and motivate you to run faster. Now imagine a shark (or squid) chasing you around the pool. Would make me faster for sure. Via Popsci
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Virgin’s free London Underground WiFi up and running
Not to be outdone by BT, Virgin takes to the London Underground, supplying at least 80 stations with free WiFi in time for the Olympics, switching to pay-as-you-go model in about 120 stations by the end of the year. Read more here on Engadget and here on Slashgear.