New Devices Help Track Olympic Winners 209
Darren writes "Athletes are going faster, higher and longer and as a result the technology that measures their feats at the Olympics needs to keep up. As a result a number of new devices to help track winners, losers at the Games have been developed, including microchips on marathon runners' shoes, ultrasensitive touch pads in the pool, radar guns at the beach volleyball and cameras that take 1000 images per second."
Nothing new here... (Score:5, Funny)
They're the ones with the medals hanging around their necks.
That's fine and all... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
> ultrasensitive touch pads in the pool
I used to know a girl who had a couple of those.
Fairness (Score:5, Funny)
That's cool for track... (Score:5, Funny)
1000 images/second? (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah Right (Score:1, Funny)
I'd rather have cameras take 1000 images per second of the [female] beach volleybal players and use my ultrasensitive touch pads on my own radar gun.
Caught you, Heisenberg... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Huge strides! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ahem... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:That's fine and all... (Score:5, Funny)
See above post about RFID tags in condoms.
KFG
"from the track-more-gymnasts-please dept" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sabre (Score:3, Funny)
Fencing's Most Terrible Moment?
That would be when Madonna "acted" as James Bond's fencing instructor in Die Another Day [imdb.com]
Re:RFID Chips (Score:5, Funny)
All Trojan Ultra Ribbed condom boxes
[...] this should (rightly so) worry you considerably more.
It does...
Why the "Ultra ribbed" ones?
What are they hiding? What are they trying to find out?!
I'm scared.
Re:RFID Chips (Score:5, Funny)
A thought about Olympic precision.... (Score:3, Funny)
Yet they are looking at giving out All-Around Male Gymnastics double gold because Judged accidentally knocked a tenth of a point from the starting score of a gymnast.
Re:1000 images/second? (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you.
Re:RFID Chips (Score:5, Funny)
These are the soles... that time men's tries!
This may sound like a good idea... (Score:3, Funny)
But after carrying this package for a year, security will know that your other package isn't getting any use.
Re:RFID Chips (Score:1, Funny)
heheh. 8-)