Category: Technology
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Aussies testing the new altitude swimming pool canopy
James Magnussen and Geoff Huegill swimming in a tent, via hollandswimming.nl.
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Wow, the Speedo Pace Club videos & iPhone app
The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like. Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion…
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Aquapulse measures your earlobe heart rate, speaks to your skull
The FINIS Aquapulse Heart Rate Monitor is now available, ready to measure your heart rate via your earlobe, and then communicate it to you in real time through bone conduction. Waterproof of course. Only $149.99, but I wish they’d squeezed a MP3-player into it also. See FINIS, via engadget.com.
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EMILY is your Android-controlled, life saving robot buoy
Hydronalix‘s robotic water rescue device E.M.I.L.Y. (Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard) is a remote control device that can travel at 40 miles per hour to rescue swimmers in distress. Using an Android phone or tablet, a lifeguard on the shore can send this buoy out to the rescue, and the distressed swimmer can then either let…
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NASA testing a wee-wee to sports drink recycling bag
Soon we can stop fighting for water at the refrigerators, and instead just pee in a special bag, wait for 4-6 hours, and then have perfectly drinkable sugary sports drink to enjoy. No external power needed, because it relies on the passive property of fluids called forward osmosis. NASA will make an astronaut test this…
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Active, the wet finger phone
Unveiled yesterday at CommunicAsia 2011 in Singapore, the Xperia Active is a compact smartphone targeting consumers with an active lifestyle, featuring a 3″ screen, the latest Android Gingerbread 2.3, a 5 MP camera with HD video functionality, and a powerful 1 GHz processor. Dust proof and water-resistant, it also uniquely incorporates wet finger tracking, to…
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Photos lost 4 years in the ocean reunited with owner after 1 day
Yesterday, PetaPixel had this amazing story about photos recovered from a camera after spending 4 years in the ocean. The finder Peter Govaars posted the photos here on Flickr, and behold, after one single day the owner of the camera has been found. I don’t know what is more magical, the memory cards that can…
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15 tips for the best underwater photos
How can this not be swimming relevant? Go straight to photojojo.com and see the 15 tips: Shoot in safe waters, have enough light, stay at the surface, get close, get acrobatic, make bubbles, bring in props, practice your shot before you take it, wear light clothing, shoot up or across, and 5 more. (A relevant…
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Polarized filters are perfect for water shots
If you want to take photos through surface glare into water, or just want to cut down surface glare, you are going to need a polarized filter. This otherwise beautiful video doesn’t demonstrate exactly that perfectly, so I added a comparison photo that demonstrates it better. By the way, you can get the same effect…