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New Devices Help Track Olympic Winners

Posted by timothy on from the track-more-gymnasts-please dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > ultrasensitive touch pads in the pool

    I used to know a girl who had a couple of those.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Fairness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Fair! They will be changing the outcome when they measure the outcome.

  3. That's cool for track... by Xxanmorph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we just need a way to stop the judges from doing something stupid in gymnastics and we'll be set.

  4. Re:That's fine and all... by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . .is there a device to track Olympic Weiners?

    See above post about RFID tags in condoms.

    KFG

  5. Re:RFID Chips by Scrameustache · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    You can't take the sky from me...

  6. Re:RFID Chips by nakaduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting RFID chips on your shoes is nothing new.

    These are the soles... that time men's tries!