Category: Sport
Waterproof Pro-Sports headphones for windsurfers and waterskiiers
These are Overboard’s Pro-Sports headphones. Designed for surfers, waterskiiers, boaters, dinghyists and fishermen of all types, they’re waterproof and feature a neckband and coiled cable that won’t let your cables tangle up when you least expect them to…
EA hit back on YouTube to Tiger Woods/Jesus claims
A little bit of backstory: a Tiger Woods golf title from EA seems to have a glitch in it which allows the user to walk onto water hazards and hit balls from there as if they were dry land. A user, Levinator25, took some footage of this, and uploaded it onto YouTube, mocking the company.
However the company have hit back with a video response of their own – here it is…
UPDATED: Michael Phelps has one million Facebook fans – and I'm one of them.
Wow. There’s popularity and then there’s Michael Phelps. The world’s greatest Olympian now has well over a million “fans” on his Facebook page. In fact, at the time of writing he has precisely 1,179,702 fans…
Feel like Phelps with Foot-Fins
Okay – picture the situation. You’re sat in a bar. In through the door swims mega-Olympian Michael Phelps (he never walks anywhere). Emboldened by liquor, you shout “Oi! Phelpsy”. He doggypaddles over and eyes you up suspiciously. “Schwimming… it’s eashy”, you slur. Phelps doesn’t reply. “I bet you fifty quid I could shwim fashter than you!” you continue. Phelps narrows his eyes and fixes you with a steely glare. “I’ll meet you down at the schwimming pool, at 9am tomorrow!” you cry, and fall off your stool…
SPOILER ALERT: Twitter upsets American Olympics fans
Michael Phelps is officially the greatest Olympian ever, scoring eight gold medals in one Olympic Games – something which has never before been achieved. Unfortunately, a tonne of Americans were pissed off over the weekend due to “spoilers” released by CNN Breaking News, and its unofficial Twitter feed (cnnbrk)…
Dynamic Fishing: cruelty-free fishing practice
Not that many robotic fish come our way at Tech Digest, but this one’s pretty awesome. It’s a kit which simulates the experience of sitting for hours on end by a river getting cold and hungry, all in the comfort of your own home…
Robopong – for the lonely table tennis enthusiast
Do you ever find yourself staring forlornly at the Ping Pong table in your garage at 3am? Wanting to bat a table tennis ball about, but feeling that it might be a bit antisocial to wake up your neighbor for a quick knockabout? It’s your lucky day. Robopong is a robot that’ll fire up to 200 table tennis balls at you. It’s heavily configurable – you can adjust the angle, speed and frequency of the barrage, and it comes with a remote control that lets you adjust these variables from the comfort of your side of the table…
Samsung launches limited edition Chelsea FC digital cameras
Celebrating its position as “Official Camera Sponsor” of Chelsea FC, Samsung has announced the launch of two limited edition digital cameras: the Samsung NV4 Titanium and Samsung L100.
If you loathe the Blues, you’ll want to look away now, because both come with the Chelsea FC team crest stuck to them so there’s little doubt which football team you support…
IOC allowing Olympics highlights on YouTube
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will be showing news and sports highlights from the Beijing Olympics in countries where no broadcaster has exclusive rights. The Video on Demand service will be available on a YouTube channel.
That means some 75 countries, including India and Nigeria, will be able to watch the best bits of the Games, as determined by the IOC. The channel will be “geo-blocked” so that those of us in countries where a TV broadcaster is already showing coverage of the Games won’t be able to access the YouTube footage.
Since the BBC will be near-exhaustively covering the Games, official YouTube clips won’t be available in the UK.
Leading Expert: Shimano Di2 electronic gears are "super nice"
One sure-fire way to come up with a new idea for an invention is to simply add “electric” to the name of a product that already exists as after all, if something is electronic it is automatically better than its predecessor. Take the electric toothbrush, for example, or even the electric chair – chairs couldn’t kill anyone until someone had the bright idea of putting electricity inside them.
It’s with this mantra that Shimano have improved upon the humble bicycle, by coming with with an electronic gears system that they reckon will “improve performance” and “reduce maintenance”…
