INTELLIGENSPORTS
…where Technology meets SportsChampion in the mind, now the virtual exhibition
Originally, “Champion in the mind” was a 2007 exhibition hold in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland).
Now its virtual version is available on the Olympic website. Have a look at what engines drive champions
“It all starts with desire”
Amazing Bicycle Boot
Chariot Skates is a brand name for the dynamic new skating product called Wheel-skates that crosses boundaries into skiing and cycling
Access the corporate website
Bike laser: making streets safer for bicyclists
Designed by Leonardo Manavella, the Laser fires an elliptical beam around your bike that makes it appear larger than life. Your bike looks to be the size of a car so motor vehiclists are more likely to see and avoid you. And if they don’t, the laser turns from green to red and horns within the system will start blaring until they move around you…
Source: Inventorspot.com
Reebok attaque la basket suisse inspirée des Massaï
Après les Etats-Unis, l’Easy Tone débarquera en Europe cet automne. Avec cette chaussure qui permet de se muscler en marchant, Reebok, filiale du géant Adidas, attaque le Suisse MBT (Massaï Barefoot Technology).
Article disponible sur 20 Minutes.ch
Usain Bolt at IMD
Amazing evening yesterday at the IMD Business School in Lausanne.
I attended a fantastic interview of the greatest athlete in the world, the Olympic gold medalist and fastest man on 100m…Usain Bolt!
Usain and his coach Glen Mills shared with us how motivation is important to reach a goal.
I really appreciated the conference and that’s the reason why I would like to share with you some notes 
Enjoy the reading: http://www.imd.ch/news/Usain-Bolt-at-IMD.cfm
“Science takes to the ice” – NY Times
Today in the New York Times, this interesting article on how tibial accelometers, bone densinometers help researchers to study skaters safety and performance, training and equipment.
“I always tell my athletes that they’re going to be injured at some point in their career, so it’s more about management of that and also trying to have a minor injury instead of a major injury”, said Tom Zakrajsek, who coaches top skaters.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23skate.html
New RD investments for Oxylane
Oxylane Group (ex Decathlon) will invest EUR 20 million to build a high-tech 10,000 sq m (107,600 sq ft) R&D centre in Passy, central-eastern France. The new centre will also gather all of the group’s marketing, design and prototype activities for mountain sports brands Quechua and Wed’ze, which were previously scattered at four sites. The construction works will start in the summer of 2009 and will be completed in two years. Oxylane targets to make Quechua the top mountain sports equipment brand in the world with a market share of over 30% in Europe and the USA.
Pulsear, a CSEM pulse measurement device integrated in stereo headphone
CSEM, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, is mainly active in the fields of micro/nanotechnology, microelectronics, systems engineering, information and communication technologies. CSEM has been rewarded by the sports community in ISPO for its pulse measurement device integrated in an ear-piece, that would enable the user to make progress and improve his sports training while listening to his favorite music.
Pulsear is based on the multi-channel monitoring of subcutaneous blood flow. An optical emitter provides infra-red light at 875 nm which is then scattered through the tissue of the ear cartilage, where it is submitted to modifications due to reflection, refraction and absorption. The analysis of the light received by a photo-diode allows the detection of the cardiac activity, i.e. heart rate, through the effects of arterial pulse waves reaching the cartilage at each cardiac systole. This is the so-called photo-plethysmographic effect.
To learn more: French article in “Le Temps” or on CSEM website
