Category: Wow
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Behold AquaTop Display, a responsive touchscreen interface on water
Engineers at the University of Electro-Communication in Tokyo have developed this amazing touch-sensitive and responsive interface that works in a pool of (cloudy) water, using a Microsoft Kinect depth camera, a projector, a PC, modified speakers and the water surface as touch panel. It is truly immersive, the first really impressive Surface if you catch…
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Katinka Hosszú 57.73 and new 100 IM SC World Record in the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup prelims
Wow, she did it again! At the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Eindhoven this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set a new 100 short course meters individual medley world record, clipping the 57.74 world record of Dutch swimmer Hinkelien Schreuder with the slimmest of margin, 57.73 and an exciting final again tonight. See the result…
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Bold – A Waterlust film about Oceanic Whitetip Sharks
A short film by Biologist Austin Gallagher about getting outside ones comfort zone and interacting with Oceanic Whitetip sharks on their turf.
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Tara Reid on Whale Sharks
Tara Reid explains the nature of Whale Sharks on Shark Week. Or something.
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FINA open water swimming Grand Prix Lac Memphremagog 2013
FINA open water swimming Grand Prix, Traversée du lac Memphremagog 2013, August 3rd 2013 FINA open water swimming Grand Prix Lac Memphremagog 2013 from Leandre Lapointe on Vimeo.
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Katinka Hosszú 2:04.39 and new 200 IM SC world record in the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup prelims (!)
Breaking news !! Old record was Julia Smit (USA) 2:04.60 at the Duel in the Pool meet between Europe and USA in Manchester back in 2009. See the result list here. #BCN2013 might be over but #swimming #WorldRecord are still falling! Hosszu (HUN) just set new 200m IM WR in 2:04.39 at #swc2013 Eindhoven —…
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Giant Pyrosome caught on video, looks like that thing in ‘The Abyss’
Pyrosomes are pelagic (free-swimming) tunicates or sea squirts that live in the open ocean, as colonies of tiny animals that form hollow tubes sealed at one end. Divers off the Tasman Peninsula caught this giant Pyrostremma spinosum on video in 2011 or earlier (judging by the YouTube video upload date), a colony that can reach…