Category: Technology
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London data center staff to live in pods during 2012 Games
According to Wired, the newly founded British company Podtime has sold 19 futuristic sleeping pods originally intended for overworked financial staffers, airport travelers and youth hostels, to three colocation facilities including a London data center operated by Interxion, to ensure that its high service levels are continually met throughout the Olympic Games. With the Olympics…
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What makes a swimming pool fast ?
Interesting story here on The Brown Daily Herald, with Brown Bears’ head coach Peter Brown describing what makes the new Katherine Moran Coleman Center swimming pool the fastest aquatic center in the Ivy League and in the Northeast. (Ehm, vaguely related video) “Fast pools have specific characteristics, and if you don’t have those, you’re going…
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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…