Friday, February 8, 2008

Closer look

Technology in sports has been constantly making groundbreaking equipment to take you as close to the sportsperson and their experiences across sports. With the craziest of angles and analysis technology, sport technology has been in the lead lately. Be it a game of cricket or extreme sports, bull fighting or river rafting, each sport has now found new insight in presentation thanks to miniature cameras which can be mounted just about anywhere. It's not novel to find cameras on the helmets of sky divers or on the headlight of extreme bikes to give you a thrilling perspective. This trend has been further enhanced with a new eye! Sports broadcasts could appear more realistic to TV viewers in the recent future.

A mini camera developed by the Fraunhofer-Institut for Integrierte Schaltungen can transmit receptions taken from the view of a Formula-1 racing driver or a ski jumper in HDTV quality, yes HDTV quality! With a size of 4x4x8 centimeters, the camera is small enough to find its place in the F1 cockpit or on top of a helmet and yet give an HD quality output. According to Stephan Gick, researcher at the Fraunhofer-Institut(IIS), this innovation has became successful with two main principles: The dissipation of the electronics and thus the heat generated was maintained very low for the mini casing and the highly integrated. All its camera settings can be controlled through the web -- because finally the sportsperson cannot be the cameraman as well!

Don't quite know and would not prefer where all inventors are planning or projecting to put wee little HD quality cameras but then again it's a boon!



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