Altitude Archive

  • Jabulani designer defends World Cup ball, says players just not used to playing at altitiude

    Jabulani designer defends World Cup ball, says players just not used to playing at altitiude

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The lead developer of the Jabulani, the ball that will be used in the World Cup, has hit back at his noisy critics. Dr. Andy Harland, who helped design the ball at England's Loughborough University's Sports Technology Institute, says that what many players are complaining about now, that the ball "moves strangely" or whatever, can be attributed to using the ball at altitude. The ball has been around since December, and he has heard zero complaints until now. So what gives?

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  • Will the fancy-pants Jabulani perform at altitude at the World Cup?

    Will the fancy-pants Jabulani perform at altitude at the World Cup?

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Football (soccer) writers are typically terribly serious about what they do. Relax, buddy, it's just a game. A fun game, yeah, but just a game. The Guardian's Barry Glendenning does things a little bit differently: he's actually good! In a column today, Glendenning prepares us all for the inevitable complaints that will surround the Jabulani's performance at the World Cup. It's a time-honored tradition, complaining about the new ball: the ball is too heavy, the ball is too light, the ball swerves too much, the ball swerves too little, etc. Most accurate ball ever created? Obviously you haven't seen a Michael Carrick pass.

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  • The Dell Latitude E6410 ATG has attitude

    The Dell Latitude E6410 ATG has attitude

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    What do you get when you combine the new Dell Latitude E6410 with a semi-rugged frame? Obviously this ATG model. Yeah, I know, lame joke but I don't have time to to think of a more clever intro so deal with it.

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  • Ski goggles feature head mounted display

    Ski goggles feature head mounted display

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Wow, these Zeal Optics “Transcend” goggles feature built-in GPS, speed data, altitude information, temperature, and a whole lot of other stuff for $350.

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  • Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location [Updated]

    Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location [Updated]

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong. When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a day. Surely, Palm wasn't sending anything too potentially incriminating without making it blatantly obvious to the user, right? Wrong. Update: Updated with Palm's statement on the matter

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  • GPS panic button is perfect for important people

    GPS panic button is perfect for important people

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    gpsIf you're actually an important person in real life, the Spark Nano GPS Tracker looks like a pretty cool doodad to keep in the pockets of your very-expensive pants. It's basically a $200 panic button that alerts your friends and family that you've been kidnapped and/or marooned on an island somewhere.

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  • Garmin announces the BMW Motorrad Navigator IV GPS

    Garmin announces the BMW Motorrad Navigator IV GPS

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    GPS’s are mostly uninteresting to me since I have little use for one in NYC, so this post is mostly for my brother and his BMW. It’s unclear what the “expanded relationship” is between Garmin and BMW Motorrad, but I’m pretty sure the announcement of the BMW Motorrad Navigator IV GPS is the extent of that whole business.

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