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Lego Beijing Olympics Doesn't Include Tibetan Monk Minifigs

It was only a matter of time before someone turned the Beijing Olympics installations into Lego. Our friends at Brothers Brick discovered the landmarks—like the Nest Sports Ground or the iconic Water Cube—Lego'ized by the Honk Kong Lego Users Group. The attention to detail is particularly impressive in the high resolution images. More »

10:20 AM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Jesus Diaz
17,155 views, 38 comments

Latest by Internet-TV: lol the little protesters are in the little jail, behind the little stadium, being interrogated and brainwashed by the little police officials. more »

oscar pistorius

Double-Amputee on Cheetah Blades Fails to Qualify For the Olympics

Oscar Pistorius, double-amputee with carbon-fiber "cheetah" blades, failed to qualify for the Olympics. He just missed the needed time in the 400 meter of 45.55 seconds, though it should be noted he posted a new personal best of 46.25. [New Scientist Tech, via Engadget]

11:40 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Matt Hickey
11,387 views, 53 comments

shooting simulator

ST-2 Indoor Shooting Simulator Is Duck Hunt on Steroids

For the ultimate game of Duck Hunt, Marksman Training Systems is offering the ST-2 shooting simulator—the first on the market for shotgun and rifle shooting. Co-developed by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, the simulator is so accurate that its used by Russian and Slovakian national clay shooting teams as a way to practice before the Olympics. More »

5:00 PM on Sat Jul 5 2008
By Elaine Chow
19,959 views, 13 comments

Future Spandex

Nike's High Tech Team USA Olympic Track Suits Shave Fractions Off Races

This is not a leaked American Gladiators uniform. It's Nike's design for the US Olympic Track and Field suits. They're made from Nike's proprietarily named (but possibly a poly-nylon blend synthetic) swift materials. Nike claims the socks and arm coverings, with their dimpled surfaces, break up drag to the tune of 12 to 19% in those areas. The suits, Nike claims, can bring a typically sub-10 second run in the 100-meter dash down by .02 seconds. [Gizmag]

9:15 AM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Brian Lam
22,458 views, 46 comments

olympics

NBC to Offer Free, Automatic Downloads through "Olympics On the Go"

I'm not a huge Olympics fan, but NBC is partnering with digital content provider Wavexpress to provide some pretty remarkable coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Dubbed "Olympics On the Go," Vista Media Center users will be able to schedule their favorite summer events to download automagically to their PCs or laptops (through TVTonic). Clips will come in "up-to-HD quality," meaning that at least some of the downloads will be good enough to be worth watching. And it's all free. The only catch seems to be that there's no mention of Zune syncing, but what good is synchronized swimming on such a small screen anyway? More »

1:20 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,595 views, 15 comments

Latest by uberfu: they need to put the free hook up on iTunes - much better distro ability than straight HTTP_ more »

superbike

Million Dollar Olympic Bicycle So Specialized "No Ordinary Person Could Ride It"

Cycle maker Koga Miyata is hoping that the new million dollar bike he designed for Dutch cyclist Theo Bos will give him the edge in the upcoming Beijing Olympics. According to reports, it has the lowest air resistance of any bike in the world, but it has no brakes and only one speed. That, combined with a super stiff frame makes it one of the most "difficult bikes to ride." So, it is a superfast bike that is damn near impossible to use. Sounds like a sure-fire bet for gold, if you ask me. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Sean Fallon
24,830 views, 92 comments

Latest by MinskyBA: Does no one else see a red Sonic the Hedgehog on the bike? The head-tube has the face of what's probably a lion, but follow the 'hair-line' back through the toptube. It's a red Sonic! more »

privacy

Chinese Olympics Tickets to Include Your Passport Info, Home Address on RFID Chip

Anyone attending the Olympics in Beijing this summer is going to find something unexpected embedded in their tickets: their passport information, home address and email address. All of these details will be nicely embedded in an RFID chip in each ticket. The move is designed to curb counterfeiting tickets in the counterfeit-happy country, but it certainly raises some privacy alarms. More »

1:00 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,332 views, 44 comments

movable buildings

London's Olympic Stadium to be 'Flatpack,' Portable

London's Olympic Stadium is going to be huge, providing seating for over 80,000 people. The problem is, after the games leave there won't be as many uses for a stadium of that size. The solution? Construct it out of flatpack materials like an Ikea bookshelf, then just take it down and move it elsewhere after the games. More »

8:40 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Adam Frucci
9,561 views, 33 comments

beijing olympics airport

World's Biggest Airport Opens in Beijing

The world's biggest airport is now finished and ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The $3.5 billion gigantic dragon terminal, which is the centerpiece of the 501-square-mile complex capable of allowing 50 million passengers per year, looks even more impressive in the amazing, almost unreal photos. More »

4:37 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jesus Diaz
64,198 views, 30 comments

Latest by EDALBNUG: So why would they want to allow natural lightning? I don't see the reason why they would want natural/artificial lightning around the airport. more »

olympics

Sprinter With Two Carbon-Fiber Feet Gets Olympics Thumbs-Up

Oscar Pistorius is a sprinter with a difference: he runs on two artificial lower legs and feet fast enough that he may qualify for the Olympics. And that's something he can now attempt, given that the Court of Arbitration for Sport has just overturned his ban. The International Association of Athletics had ruled against him competing against able-bodied runners. All because of the specialized carbon-fiber Cheetah Flex-Foot prosthetic feet he uses, which represented an unfair mechanical advantage, maintained the IAAF. So the advanced artificial limbs, designed after the shape of a Cheetah's hind leg, were put to the test in the lab. More »

5:30 PM on Sun May 18 2008
By Kit Eaton
22,982 views, 108 comments

Latest by Lestat: Judging from the listed PB of his own speed, I think it is unlikely he will qualify anyway... but it is good that he at least gets a shot. I could make some more comments on people with additional muscles in more »

beijing

Beijing's Gigantic LED Wall Is Fully Solar Powered

Say what you will about the fiascoes leading up to the Beijing Olympics, but the event has brought along with it some amazing new architecture. Greeting visitors attending the Xicui entertainment complex near the site of the games is a 20,000 square foot wall of computer-controlled LEDs, the largest of its kind ever built. Better yet, the wall manages to power itself completely using only the sun. More »

12:30 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Elaine Chow
8,216 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: Damn Commies just want to sell more sunglasses to fill their pockets more »

beat the heat

Nike PreCool Vest Is Heatsink For Athletes

Beijing Olympians can count on being cool as cucumbers in Nike's PreCool Vest, a specially designed piece of clothing that lowers the body's core temperature. Much like computers, muscles perform better when they're not dedicating most of their resources to cooling down. Used about an hour prior to a competition, it can help an athlete last up to 21% longer out in the field. The vest is made of two layers of material: the inner one is filled with frozen water and the outer layer is coated with aluminum to act like a thermos, trapping cold in while reflecting radiant heat. Unfortunately, the PreCool is only available for Olympic athletes, so us normal folk will have to find other ways to chill out this summer. [Newlaunches.com]

4:00 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Elaine Chow
7,169 views, 49 comments

Latest by n/a: @shenanigans61: @shenanigans61: A study in 2003 done by researchers at the University of Georgia showed that wearing an ice filled cooling vest decreased 5K running times by an average of 13 seconds. You may think it doesn't help, more »

censorship

China Had Better Turn Off Its Firewall During the Olympics, Or Else

With the Olympics coming up, the pressure is mounting on China to turn off its countrywide firewall so journalists can cover the games uninhibited. While it's a part of the "host city contract" that Beijing agreed to when accepting its role as host of the games, whether or not China will actually follow through has come into doubt with recent censorship surrounding China's human rights abuses in Tibet. Oh, and, uh, Mr. T doesn't approve of censorship or human rights abuses. Fool. Am I doing this right? [Reuters]

10:06 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Adam Frucci
3,685 views, 40 comments

Latest by stopcrazypp: The original article doesn't even talk about internet censorship in China, it just talks about general intellectual property rights rules that many sporting organizations have. So I wonder where the rest of the sources for this news came from? Just more »

speedos

Streamlined Speedo Swim Suit Is Too Slippery When Wet

Officials from the International Swimming Federation (aka FINA) want to speak with Speedo next week about their high-tech swimsuit. Seems the athletes who use the swimsuit are breaking all sorts of records and, with the Olympics coming up, FINA doesn't want anyone getting an unfair advantage. Unfortunately for FINA, the only real resolutions appear to be a general ban, which Speedo would protest, or to allow every country to wear it in violation of their existing equipment contracts. The last option is probably the most appealing: FINA brings back the old suits and those swim team shaving parties of yesteryear. [MSNBC]

9:30 PM on Sun Mar 30 2008
By Jack Loftus
27,654 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: As a top ranked USA Swimming swimmer, I can say that this suit may, if you're lucky, shave a tenth off your regular time. That is a considerable amount, but its not like people will be breaking records all over more »

heavy machinery

Russian Billionaire Buys World's Largest Drill, Swears He Won't Drill To America

The following is not the plot to an upcoming Bond film: Russian bootstrap billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich announced that his construction company, Infrastruktura, would spend $160 million on the world's largest drill. The drill, five meters wider than the current champ, built by the same German concern, Herrenknecht, would be used to improve the grounds around the Black Sea resort of Sochi, site of 2014 Olympics and favorite hangout of both Stalin and Putin. The company says it will not be used to drill a subterranean roadway from Far Eastern Russia to Alaska. Not yet, at least. More »

1:20 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Wilson Rothman
8,783 views, 34 comments

Latest by RebootEDC: LOL! Maybe he wants to emulate Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and make some EPIC DRILLS. more »

gadgets

Biometric Testing for Workers on London Olympics Building Site

Over 100,000 construction workers on the 2012 Olympics venue in London will be subjected to biometric tests while they build the site. The two-tier system will scan hands and faces, and should be up and running by June this year, when work starts on the 50-acre site. And these measures, part of the $700 million security budget, will not just be for the building contractors, either. More »

6:53 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By AddyDugdale
3,554 views, 11 comments

ces 2008

NBC To Put 3,600 Hours of 2008 Olympic Games on MSN (in Silverlight)

In his CES keynote tonight, Bill Gates (and Bob Costas) announced that NBC would broadcast 3,600 hours of games from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics via MSN on the nbcolympics.com site. The video will be both live and on demand, with over 30 simultaneous live broadcasts. The cool thing is that finally, people who love ridiculous games like the hammer toss will get their fix, without upsetting the basketball fans who wouldn't dare allow for a pre-emption. The catch is that it's all happening on Silverlight, not Flash. "One more plug-in to download," says our smart-as-a-whip Texan intern Eric. Still, I think it's worth it for a good hammer toss. [Bill Gates Keynote]

10:20 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,422 views, 11 comments

Latest by jbelkin: Yea, that's what the world needs, another MS format that will probably bring down your whole machine for the duration of the Olympics - and if it works, the only thing you'll be watching are a bunch of ads followed more »

olympics

JR Robotics Gymnastics Robot: Golden

Biped robot? Check. Slick blue paintjob? Check. Lasers? No go. High bar routine? Check. More »
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