Category: Technology
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Israeli AI Device ‘Watches’ Swimming Pools to Prevent Drowning Accidents
As winter gradually gives way to spring in the coming months, Israeli families with private swimming pools will slowly start dreaming of enjoying a refreshing splash once again. While for the vast majority, pools provide a way to cool off from the summer sun, 2018 was overshadowed by the tragic increase of children and adults who…
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SwiMMinD Learn to Swim
SwiMMinD’s Learn to Swim Module delivers remote, interactive and meaningful feedback through video analysis and digital certificates to swimmers interested to build confidence in the water. SwiMMinD assesses swimming skills performed by swimmers according to well established Learn to Swim graduation Programmes from Australia, Germany, the US and the UK. Register and Get your Remote,…
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Openwater Swim Mega GPS Test // Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Apple, COROS
It’s the ultimate show-down of 2018 swim GPS devices: The Garmin Fenix 5 Plus vs Suunto 9 vs Polar Vantage V vs Apple Watch Series 4 vs COROS Pace vs Suunto Trainer Wrist HR! Oh, and the Forerunner 935 along for the ride.
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Virtual reality lets patients swim with dolphins
Gulfside Hospice is testing out virtual reality technology to let patients deal swimming with dolphins or travel to London.
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Tokyo taxi firm sets the stage for a driverless fleet for 2020 Olympics
Deadlines linked to autonomous-car technology are tossed around like balls in a bingo spinner, with no one really sure when driverless cars will hit the streets in a meaningful way. What is clear is that a huge global event can focus the minds of those developing such technology, with Tokyo-based robotics outfit ZMP and local taxi firm Hinomaru…
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Sony Truly Wireless Headphones WF-SP900 Official Product Video
It is an ad, yes, but it is also saltwater-proof! :-) On the track, in the pool or under the ocean, the WF-SP900 headphones are all you need to take you further than ever before. With a truly wireless design and 4GB of on-board storage so you can listen anywhere. https://youtu.be/L32Wshly8H0
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Rescue drone saves drowning swimmer caught in undertow rip current
On August 15 th, Puerto de Sagunto beach, Spain, a rescue was performed by a drone, saving a woman from drowning who was trapped in a undertow (rip current). This unmanned aerial vehicle is the Auxdron Lifeguard, rescue drone, made by General Drones, specifically engineered to serve as search and rescue device, thanks to its…
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Child drownings in Germany linked to parents’ phone ‘fixation’
German lifeguards have issued a warning that a growing number of child drownings this summer are linked to their parents’ obsession with mobile phones. More than 300 people have drowned in Germany this year, with hardly a day passing during the current heatwave when a swimmer has not died. The German Lifeguard Association (DLRG) –…
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The first underwater film is stranger than fiction: “The Terrors of the Deep”
PopSci found the lost and forgotten first underwater film. It’s a story too strange and horrifying to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). Also, it’s the first footage of a shark ever recorded.