iGills is a waterproof housing (plus free app) that turns your iPhone into a dive computer, underwater still and video camera, digital dive log, compass, flashlight with easy to reach press buttons and more, all for just $329.99. Via SlashGear.
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Nice you guys, one in five pee in the pool
“Cooling off in the pool is pretty normal for most people in South Georgia, but a new survey might make you think twice before diving in head first.” Read WALB News.
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Why we need the Ocean
Also, how to make an underwater interview. Oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle speaking from the Aquarius undersea research base in Key Largo, Florida, on why we should care about the Ocean. Read more here on Care2, also about the importance of the Aquarius, in danger of being shut down.
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Why not to interview someone under water
Courtesy of Fox News, the transcript according to Mediaite: “BUBBLE BUBBLE GURGLE. BUBBLE BUBBLE the sea BUBBLE BUBBLE research GURGLE BUBBLE BUBBLE very important BUBBLE BUBBLE BUBBLE.â€
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Croc or log ?
Wildebeests facing the age-old question
Via Geekosystem
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CC photo #202: Pál in a Chinese newspaper
Photo of a page in the newspaper that we got from our guide Cora during the Shanghai 2011 World Swimming Championships. Her parents had noticed ‘her swimmer’ in the paper, we were told the title says something like “One athlete, big dream”.
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Wanna own an official Olympic bed ?
The 11,000 single beds for the Olympic athletes village are on sale now here on Remains of the Games for £39.99 – and no, they are not 172 cm short but 197 cm long (superlong versions also available). Official supplier Ramler Furniture is selling off all kinds of Olympic furniture, including the official bedroom sets, lamps, benches, lockers, benches etc etc, to be delivered after the Paralympics. Just don’t expect to get Usain Bolt’s mattress, as he has had a specially designed orthopaedic one made, the team around Jamaica working hard to deliver everything but a goat’s head. Read The Telegraph.
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Phelps knocks FINA ban on having flags on both sides of the cap
Apparently some new ‘same-side guidelines’ issued by FINA last year, included in IOC rules for London posted in May. Also, the eagle-eyed reader will quickly notice that Phelps is a MacBook Pro and iPhone user :-)Front and back of our caps… We used to be able to have front and back side with flags but for some reason there … http://t.co/Btoil7LW
— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) July 19, 2012
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40% of London’s black taxis to call an Olympic time out
London is planning travel restrictions for some 109 miles of its streets during the Olympics; a third of that distance will be reserved for athletes, members of the press, and officials. London cabbies aren’t happy about it: Some 40% of the city’s 23,200 black-cab drivers plan to strike during the games. Read Bloomberg via Newser