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Category: Technology

  • Neptune allows cochlear implant recipients to hear while swimming

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    Advanced Bionics announced yesterday that they have received approval in the US and Canada for Neptune, the world’s first and only swimmable, waterproof sound processor. Designed to help cochlear implant recipients hear in and out of the water, it can be worn anywhere and way they choose, such as in the hair, on an arm,…

  • Webscorer, an exciting new race timing app for your iPhone or iPad

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    Take a peak at that screen dump – doesn’t that look like something that you have been missing for far too many years? A mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch called Webscorer that is dirt simple to use: you start the clock and then tap the screen as you wish to record…

  • (Cool) Aquabotix HydroView beams your video to the iPad

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    The Aquabotix HydroView is an easy-to-use, remote-operated underwater vehicle that beams a live high-definition view back to the surface. Controlled using an iPad, smartphone or laptop, the HydroView shoots full 1080p HD video or stills, and returns it to your controller. And looks the part, like something out of Star Trek, only for underwater purposes.…

  • HzO can also waterproof you mobile phone

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    Waterproofing nanotechnology popping up everywhere these days, during a press preview for the upcoming 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, a company called HzO showed of some kind of technology that creates a “nano-scale film barrier” with the circuitry of for instance a mobile phone, that rather than keep water out, allows water too creep inside without…

  • Waterproof your iPhone by spraying NeverWetâ„¢ on it ?

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    NeverWetâ„¢ is a patent-pending, silicon-based superhydrophobic spray-on coating or paint by Ross Nanotechnology that deflects nearly all liquids, heavy oils, ice, corrosion, bacteria etc so extremely much better than for instance Teflon, that NeverWet-infused materials “have remained under seawater for over a year and reemerged completely dry.” It will apparently make anything waterproof that you…

  • Capturing surf tricks in bullet time with 30 GoPros

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    Timeslice Films and Rip Curl are at it again, freezing surf tricks in Matrix-style “bullet time”, now using an array of 30 GoPro cameras. Via PetaPixel. They’ve done it before, then using 52 Canon Rebel DSLR’s. But with the GoPros, the solution is waterproof :-)

  • In a yellow submarine for two

    In a yellow submarine for two

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    Upon the success of the single seat AS1 model, American company Aqua Star has created a two person underwater scooter, the AS2, allowing couples to share the underwater experience together. Both riders are free to dismount, swim around and climb back aboard, sharing air from scuba tanks in the diving helmet. Maybe an idea for…

  • GoPRO HD HERO vs HERO2

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    Didn’t expect that difference, thought it would be more resolution than color. GoPRO HERO1 vs HERO2 from Rami Katzav on Vimeo.

  • Forerunner® 910XT: Swim metrics (video)

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    This is so sweet, and I’m sure gonna upgrade my 4½-year-old Forerunner® 305 runner’s watch with this one, when I get a chance. Via the17thman Don’t know how yet how good it is at counting the strokes and yardage, but here is someone reviewing the competing FINIS Swimsense Performance Monitor.