INTELLIGENSPORTS
…where Technology meets SportsBike 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
Industrial Simulation Conference 2008 (ISC’08), June 9-11, 2008 – Lyon (France)
The aim of the 6th annual Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC’2008), is to give a complete overview of this year’s industrial simulation related research and to provide an annual status report on present day industrial simulation research within the European Community and the rest of the world in line with European industrial research projects.
This year’s conference will feature also for the first time a special workshop on simulation and modelling in sports engineering.
The workshop will cover simulation and modelling in:
* Behaviour, ergonomics, biomechanics
* Physical Activity and Well-Being
* Performance Enhancement and Sports Engineering
* Sports Dynamics
* Applications such as:
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Wearables (intelligent clothes, bioshirts and footwear)
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Mobile Motion Tracking Services
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Sensor Networks
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Training Equipment (instruments for prestation monitoring and
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Sport stimulation (technological innovations)
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Bicycle, Racing Car and Sailing Yacht Design
Alpine Ski Binding System Having Release Logic for Inhibiting Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
The US company, Vermont Ski Safety Equipement Inc. (VSSE), has filed the following patent “Alpine Ski Binding System Having Release Logic for Inhibiting Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury” that has been published on February 14.
Vermont Safety Ski Equipment is a manufacturer of safety related products for the ski industry.
Biomechanical Energy Now Ready for Prime Time
“A new start-up company is commercializing a breakthrough invention that generates electricity from the natural motion of walking and uses it to power a broad range of portable devices.
The Biomechanical Energy Harvester is the focus of a peer-reviewed article in the February 8 edition of the academic journal Science. The device, which resembles an orthopedic knee brace, can generate up to five watts of power without creating any noticeable effort for the wearer.
By way of example, one minute of walking with the device could deliver enough power to support 10 minutes worth of “talk time” on a typical mobile phone.”
More information, pictures and video on
Bionic Power company website
