Category: Technology
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ButterflEYE goggles measure your heart rate while swimming
As a swimmer on her college team at the American University of Beirut, it never made sense to Hind Hobeika that practices were organized according to heart rates taken after the swims, or with watches or belts that disturb and slow you down. So she invented the ButterflEYE goggles that read the pulse in the…
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Track your laps, splits, stroke rate and type with the Swimtag wristband
Swimtag is a training aid that monitors progress in the pool, much like the Finis Swimsense or Swimovate Pool-Mate Pro, but more simplified without buttons or display, to act more as a passive device than a watch. The idea is that for instance your local pool provides these wristbands as a service, that you pick…
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Fly underwater on the towable Abyss Board
The Abyss Board is the first towable board that can be ridden both above and below the wake, while doing tricks and maneuvers by steering its wings. “It combines fighter jet maneuvers with underwater exploration, there’s really nothing like it,†said Eric Healy, aeronautical engineer and Abyss Board inventor. “Cruising on the Abyss Board allows…
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Flyboard from Zapata Racing, for when you REALLY want to have fun
Wow, this thing looks even better than the Jetlev r200 Jet Pack, with those additional hoses on your arms and everything. See zapata-racing.com, via Buzzfeed
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Neptune allows cochlear implant recipients to hear while swimming
Advanced Bionics announced yesterday that they have received approval in the US and Canada for Neptune, the world’s first and only swimmable, waterproof sound processor. Designed to help cochlear implant recipients hear in and out of the water, it can be worn anywhere and way they choose, such as in the hair, on an arm,…
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Webscorer, an exciting new race timing app for your iPhone or iPad
Take a peak at that screen dump – doesn’t that look like something that you have been missing for far too many years? A mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch called Webscorer that is dirt simple to use: you start the clock and then tap the screen as you wish to record…
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(Cool) Aquabotix HydroView beams your video to the iPad
The Aquabotix HydroView is an easy-to-use, remote-operated underwater vehicle that beams a live high-definition view back to the surface. Controlled using an iPad, smartphone or laptop, the HydroView shoots full 1080p HD video or stills, and returns it to your controller. And looks the part, like something out of Star Trek, only for underwater purposes.…
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HzO can also waterproof you mobile phone
Waterproofing nanotechnology popping up everywhere these days, during a press preview for the upcoming 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, a company called HzO showed of some kind of technology that creates a “nano-scale film barrier” with the circuitry of for instance a mobile phone, that rather than keep water out, allows water too creep inside without…
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Waterproof your iPhone by spraying NeverWetâ„¢ on it ?
NeverWetâ„¢ is a patent-pending, silicon-based superhydrophobic spray-on coating or paint by Ross Nanotechnology that deflects nearly all liquids, heavy oils, ice, corrosion, bacteria etc so extremely much better than for instance Teflon, that NeverWet-infused materials “have remained under seawater for over a year and reemerged completely dry.” It will apparently make anything waterproof that you…