Category: Technology
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Video: British Trials 2012 Mens 50 freestyle final
Pretty good video here shot on an iPhone 4 at the British Olympic Trials on Friday, 9 March 2012. If you look closely, you’ll notice a flash of red light on one of the center lanes at 0:31, that must be the light signal that Craig Lord mentions here on SwimNews: The first swimmer home…
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Wow, SEGA’s London 2012â„¢ is extremely detailed
SEGA is producing the official video game of the Olympic Games – London 2012â„¢ – to be released in June for Playstation 3, PC and Xbox 360. Here is a video showing the interior of the Aquatics Centre, looking very impressive with Omega OSB 11 starting blocks and everything.
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You can hear your splits underwater in the London 2012 pool
Interesting fact, courtesy of Elizabeth Simmonds on Twitter Was weird hearing the live commentary underwater during the race.. Very surreal hearing ur 50m split times blasted through submerged space! — Elizabeth Simmonds (@QueenMond) March 9, 2012 And hilarious follow-up tweet Also just got asked by a 6 year old if I would do him the…
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James Cameron completed an 8,000-meter dive this week (!)
The following is an excerpt from an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, following Cameron’s successful (and record-breaking) 8,000-meter solo submarine dive in the “Deepsea Challenger” to the bottom of the New Britain Trench, Wednesday. Don Walsh will be joining the expedition in Guam, prior to Cameron’s 11,000-meter dive…
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Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger launched, will go into the abyss in a few weeks
Behold the Deepsea Challenger, a one-man submersible craft that in a few weeks will take filmmaker James Cameron into the deepest point in the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench – as only the third human to visit that place since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh back in 1960. Millionaire adventurer Chris…
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Nokia stepping into the nanotech superhydrophobic business
We’ve heard about these waterproofing solutions before, but now Nokia is also stepping into the game, announcing how they can keep mobile phones water resistant by using superhydrophobic coating. Via übergizmo
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Dr Gharavi launches revolutionary 4D PRO ReAction Trainer
You might remember Dr Homayun Gharavi MD PhD Phd, the team doctor and internationally renowned fitness coach from Germany who visited Pál & Jón in Suðuroy back in October, and whom I afterwards interviewed on the boat ride back to civilization. Well, after working with rigid suspension training systems for many years, he’s concluded that…
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Zombies, Run! will kickstart your interval training for sure
Zombies, Run! is a running game & audio adventure iOS/Android, in which you help rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse by actually running in the real world. You have to collect medicine, ammo, batteries and spare parts, while on occasion being chased by zombies. Now, this could easily be modified into a “Sharks, Swim!” game,…
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Arena’s Powerskin Carbon Pro debuts at British Swimming Trials
The Powerskin Carbon Pro, Arena’s latest swimsuit featuring breakthrough “intelligent compression” technology will make its first appearance in a major competitive meet at the venue for this summer’s Olympic Games, the London Aquatics Centre. They have British swimmers Francesca Halsall and Hannah Miley on board at that meet, as well as Milorad ÄŒavić from Serbia,…