Electronic bugs in football balls and players' shinpads
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have developed a wireless ball and player location system that can immediately tell referees and game analysts where the soccer ball or striker is at any point in time.
The chips, implanted in balls and players' shinpads, read their position up to 2000 times a second. The data is collected by antennas placed around the field and sent on to a central computer, which processes the statistical information. Other sports could benefit from the chips, such as ski jumping, basketball or baseball. And besides sports, tests using the chips in airports are underway. Developers say the system could also be used in searching for missing persons, guarding prisoners or maintaining security around buildings. Via Deutsche Welle. |
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Gli appassionati sapranno certamente che in questo periodo si fanno molte chiacchere sull'utilizzo di "aiuti tecnologici" nel calcio. Al Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits si sta sperimentando un sistema wireless che permette di avere il c... Read More
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has created an electronics device that can be embedded in a soccer ball and send its exact position at the rate of 2000 samples per second. Radio waves sent by the device are received by antennas around ... Read More
Le sport va devenir un peu plus high tech d’ici peu. Le “Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits� a créé un appareil électronique qui peut être intégré dans un ballon de foot et envoyer sa position exacte à une fréquence de 2000 éch... Read More
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Hopefully the new technology will help to avoid situations like this
;)