The camera is set up at the top of the ski jumping ramp, enabling a viewer to see what the Winter Olympian is facing. There’s another one positioned in the kiss and cry area, allowing you to get up close and personal with figure skaters and the emotions after their performances. A world away from […]
Pyeongchang, South Korea, is 14 hours ahead of Toronto. So an engineer in Canada’s largest city created a solution to help the country’s Olympic athletes avert the tiring effects of jet lag. The engineer, Amol Rao, founded startup company Somnitude and developed a pair of glasses designed to filter out blue light and aptly called […]
Like other timed sports, speedskating is decided often by mere fractions of a second. To amplify those photo finishes and minute details that can make or break a skater’s time, Omega has technology at the Olympics in Pyeongchang. That technology includes a light- and sound-emitting starting gun and a digital lap counter, but most of […]
For Hockey Canada, the only goal in the Olympics is gold. With 20 total medals, 13 of them gold, Canada is the most successful country in Olympic hockey. Both the women’s and men’s teams took home gold in Sochi and Vancouver — the previous two Winter Olympics. This year in PyeongChang, Canada will not have […]
Intel planned for an ornate light display involving drones at the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang on Friday, but the company had some trouble getting its show off the ground. According to a news release from Intel, 1,218 “Shooting Star” drones were used to create a light show featuring the Olympic rings […]
