Category: Technology
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Underwater Portrait Shoot: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
In another Secret Portrait Challenge Gavin Hoey get’s thrown in at the deep end with an mystery underwater shoot using a mermaid tank. As this is a secret photography challenge and with no prior knowledge of the location or subject, Gavin starts by solving the most important question on any shoot, how do I light…
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Using Virtual Reality to Learn How to Escape a Rip Current
This Hofstra University rip current study, which uses virtual reality as its platform to educate beachgoers, is funded by New York Sea Grant.
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Sydney schoolgirl who invented smart swimming goggles headed to NASA | Jorja Siga
A 12-year-old girl with a big idea is one of three young Australians heading all the way to NASA. Clancy Catholic College Student Jorja Siga https://youtu.be/tB-CsE9B10k
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How to Choose the Good Waterproof Headphones
Factors to consider in determining the best for swimming Swimming and listening to music at the same time may have been an impossible scenario in the olden days, but that, fortunately for the enthusiasts, no longer holds true. Technology has, after all, given us that gift that now allows for those two things to be…
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This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep.
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How To Breathe Whilst Swimming Freestyle | Swim Technique For Front Crawl Breathing
Breathing when swimming. It’s the most important aspect of the freestyle stroke as we need oxygen to allow our muscles to perform at their best. In this swimming video Mark brings you the essential skills for How To Breathe When Swimming.
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Instabeat Swim Tech Review
The Instabeat is a swim tech hardware that you wear on your goggles that gives you real-time HR Feedback, stroke detection, and more! It is an amazing product and I am excited to share today’s review with you! I was also fortunate enough to do a podcast interview with the Founder of Instabeat, Hind Hobeika.…
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Real Jobs: Ellen is on a mission to get people swimming through inclusive design
Ellen Harper, a University of Strathclyde masters’ student and product design engineer at Poolpod, is on a mission to get people with restricted mobility swimming through inclusive design.
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Russian hackers are targeting the 2020 Olympics
The targets: The attacks were aimed at at least “16 national and international sporting and anti-doping organizations across three continents†and began in mid-September, according to a blog post from Microsoft, whose security researchers detected the attacks. Several were successful, but most were not. The hackers used tactics like spear-phishing, password spraying, and exploiting internet-connected devices. Repeat offenders: The…