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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
> 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.
. . .is there a device to track Olympic Weiners?
See above post about RFID tags in condoms.
KFG
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...
Putting RFID chips on your shoes is nothing new.
These are the soles... that time men's tries!