INTELLIGENSPORTS

Champion in the mind, now the virtual exhibition

vdosseto — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:19:22 +0000

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”

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 !

vdosseto — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:26:07 +0000

Intelligensports team wishes you a Happy, Healthy & Successful 2010

Amazing Bicycle Boot

vdosseto — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0000

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

vdosseto — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:18:27 +0000

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

vdosseto — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:40:29 +0000

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’s conference on YouTube

vdosseto — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:24:53 +0000

The integral conference is now available on YouTube

Usain Bolt at IMD

vdosseto — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:15:32 +0000

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

vdosseto — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:02:52 +0000

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

vdosseto — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:38:41 +0000

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

vdosseto — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:38:47 +0000

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