 Poster: A snowHead
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Canada's alpine skiers are hoping that what was a closely guarded secret until this week will make them faster at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Known as STEALTH, or Sensor for the Training of Elite Athletes, the new technolgy is a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit that helps skiers find the fastest route down the mountain. And, it can also tell them which ski and wax combinations work the best....For more, see: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g_d6CuOqjpvcWMg2G8IrZouxGw_g
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think this will be popular with Snowheads & Epic Skiers in years to come.
I always thought that the 'fastest' way down the mountain was the fall line. Then I remembered the gates. Carry on.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I guess that now with their super slippery ski suits, personalised skis and this new slide-by-wire GPS, the only excuse they'll have for not winning every medal on offer is "the other guy was better than me"... 
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Richard_Sideways, these guys were "made for it". That's what I hear 50 times a day at the moment 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Knowing it's too late for any of their competitors to copy the technology before the Games open Feb. 12, Own The Podium and the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary lifted the veil Thursday. |
I just love such "news". Yeah noone else knew anything about this till now... except that everyone else are using this at least since June, when I have been talking with guys from US and Italian teams, and they both were using this for all season already.
Next to that, I'm not really sure if this is really all that great. I doubt they have GPS units, accurate enough to tell if you are going 3cm too much to right or left. But I'm sure I will have more details about this pretty soon
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5cm accuracy... pretty impressive, especially considering average accuracy I'm getting with my gsp receivers. I had no idea, you can actually get something this accurate. .Ro, thanks for this link, it's pretty interesting read... especially link below about Novatel stuff 
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