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SportsEngineers

  1. Why are the South Americans so good at football? wp.me/pE3LE-Lt
  2. New babolat racket contains a sensor to feedback data to the player: bit.ly/KD0nbH
  3. Nike claims their new track-suit with dimples can yield improvement of .023 s in 100 m sprint: bit.ly/KYXu7t. Quite a claim.
  4. What is sport? We try to tackle the question on our blog: wp.me/pE3LE-Kj. Comment if you have an opinion
  5. JSET Special edition on predictive modelling in sport now available online: bit.ly/JYICos
  6. XKCD does Sports Engineering! xkcd.com/852/
  7. Blog has new look theme, and a new project which should mean more frequent posting!
  8. Ask a sports engineer launch wp.me/pE3LE-Kh
  9. great old film about bicycle manufacture: film.britishcouncil.org/how-a-bicycle-…
  10. The loneliness of the long distance physicist wp.me/pE3LE-qS
  11. Gold fever: predicting the number of medals for Team GB at London 2012 wp.me/pE3LE-HJ
  12. Basic mechanics applied to the diving springboard, new blog article from Prof. Haake: bit.ly/IYjgSE
  13. attractive heart rate monitor worn on the wrist, uses a green LED to detect heartbeats. mybasis.com
  14. Great 1st day at the SSI's collab workshop bit.ly/GD2h9i. Some very interesting discussion on software's role in academia #CollabW12
  15. Dr David James: "Just been a judge at the Big Bang Fair. Fantastic entries, I'm happy to report that the future of UK engineering is safe!"