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New Devices Help Track Olympic Winners
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."
Its always been easy to track the winners at the Olympics.
They're the ones with the medals hanging around their necks.
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
but is there a device to track Olympic Weiners? I'm in Athens and I'm starving.
> ultrasensitive touch pads in the pool
I used to know a girl who had a couple of those.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
No Fair! They will be changing the outcome when they measure the outcome.
Now we just need a way to stop the judges from doing something stupid in gymnastics and we'll be set.
...that's about how many are taken of Misty May's and Kerri Walsh's butts as they play a game.
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."
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.
You can't hide behind any cloak of so-called anonymity -- I have measured your comment, and found that it could only come from Heisenberg ... but wait, I measured it, so now I'm Uncertain ...
This only applies if we start sending single particles to the Olympics instead of macroscopic athletes...
The woman's locker room Web Cams for the Greek games are pretty good. Bet you didn't know those Russian women weightlifters wear jockstraps.
What's the matter Timothy, can't get enough of all those guys in tights without technical assistance?
Fencing's Most Terrible Moment?
That would be when Madonna "acted" as James Bond's fencing instructor in Die Another Day
Not only are RFID chips in your shoes, but according to the July 2004 IEEE Spectrum, they're also in [...]
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.
You can't take the sky from me...
And yet the RFID-enabled badge I use to open doors at work needs to be 1 inch away from the wall-mounted sensor. Perhaps if I carried a package of condoms in my khaki pants to work...
"....cameras that take 1000 images per second."
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.
Putting RFID chips on your shoes is nothing new.
These are the soles... that time men's tries!
Perhaps if I carried a package of condoms in my khaki pants to work...
But after carrying this package for a year, security will know that your other package isn't getting any use.
paintball
RFID Chips in condoms - I like this idea. I can set up a device to scan for these at the front door and whenever my daughter brings home a new boyfriend I can bring out the pliers when the alarm goes off.
heheh. 8-)