Category: Technology
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Waves, a kinetic sculpture that generates waveforms
Daniel Palacios creates this interactive sculpture back in 2006, that generates waveforms with a spinning elastic rope whenever it detects nearby movement. Looks a bit dangerous. The Creators Project via Laughing Squid
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The Swiss Physilog III swimsuit has built in gyroscopes and accelerometers
The EPFL LMAM‘s Physilog III has been mentioned here before, but now we have video of this inertial sensor system equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes, sewn into a swimming suit that reminds us of the fiery red Jaked suits from days gone past. Read more here on Discovery.
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Textiles that turn transparent in time with heart beat?
Studio Roosegaarde has created this line of high-tech clothing know as “Intimacy 2.0”, that turn more and more transparent, the faster you heart beats. Myes, maybe the other way around in swimming, for training purposes … ‘anything under 130 bpm and your butt will show!’ Via Buzzfeed
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Experimental game Deep Sea terrifies with blindness, limited breathing
In the underwater horror game Deep Sea, you strap on a mask that takes away your vision and limits your breathing, to start fighting alien monsters in the abyss by trying to localize, aim and fire at them using only your hearing, to the point where you have to surpress your breathing in order to…
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Spanish Open streamed live on YouTube
This is interesting … Earlier this month, YouTube opened up the possibility for NonProfits to live stream directly on YouTube, and apparently the Spaniards were quick, arranging the ongoing “Open” de España Natación to use this possibility, or something similar, since for instance this video says “Streamed live on Mar 29, 2012”, and others are…
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World’s first live Google+ underwater hangout from Great Barrier reef this Friday
Award winning documentarian Richard Fitzpatrick, together with the team from the Catlin Seaview Survey, will be hanging out on Google+ from beneath the sea LIVE from the Great Barrier Reef this Friday March 30 at 3:45 p.m. Sydney Time (that’s early Friday morning 04:45.00 UTC in Europe). Leave your questions and comments for the divers…
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Why do deep-sea explorers wear those tiny wool caps ?
Interesting fact here on Slate: Because it’s practically freezing down there. The water temperature at the bottom of the ocean usually hovers around 37 degrees Fahrenheit, and most deep-sea exploration vehicles don’t have climate control. Explorers tend to bring hats, gloves, long johns, and other warm layers, which they pull on as they descend and…
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Lost GoPro camera reunited with owner after 10 months at sea
Zach Wilson, an adventure sports enthusiast and film-maker was paddle-boarding off North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May of last year with a friend, when his GoPro digital camera went missing. Ten months later, on February 28, he got an unexpected surprise when the friend he was with at the time spotted what he thought was…
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PBS Newshour on James Cameron’s trip to the Mariana Trench
Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron’s deep dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam. “He set off in…