Professor Haake has been working with the Royal Institution on a series of films exploring the world of sport, technology and engineering. Not only that but they’ve launched with the very same name as our blog! The collection of films will be available soon, but for now you can get a taste by viewing the […]
This July sees the next biannual conference on Sports Engineering, held at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. The conference always has a lot of interesting papers on the subject of engineering and technology in sport. Thanks to the internet age, the papers at this conference are also available online for anyone to read. Before the […]
Our very own Dr David James has recently given a lecture exploring the role of technology in sport for the IET. They’ve made the video available online, which you can see by visiting the link below. Enabling, enhancing or cheating? Dr David James, Centre for Sports Engineering Research From: Sports Technology Lecture, 24 May 2012, […]
The very first question I thought I’d tackle in our ‘Ask a Sports Engineer’ project is quite a fundamental one and also quite different from the subjects we usually tackle on engineeringsport: What is Sport? A lot of the questions we’ve received from the question box asked questions very similar to this. Some people were […]
Our Blog has been going for nearly three years and recently hit the 100,000 visitors mark! This may be small fry compared to internet big hitters, but as the blog of a group of busy engineers, we’re all ecstatic. In addition to this, we’ve recently received funding which will allow us to create more content […]
In the coming months the EngineeringSport blog should have a lot more content on its pages thanks to a project in collaboration with the V&A’s museum of childhood and an Ingenious grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering. Our Sports Engineers will be on hand to answer your questions The Beautiful Games exhibition (which is […]
As many of you will already be aware, FIFA and particularly Sepp Blatter have recently indicated that goal line technology does have a role in football (something we’ve argued for some time). Frank Lampard’s non-goal against Germany in the last world cup has been cited as the turning point, a mistake which must not be repeated. For […]
We were lucky enough to have an event at this year’s British Science Festival in Bradford regarding the role of science and technology in sport. The event took the form of a debate, with our own Professor Haake arguing for technology, and Philosopher Dr Jim Parry presenting arguments against. Both gave fascinating talks which raised a […]
This series of posts looks at the Kinect as a potential tool for analysis in Biomechanics. Previously we explored the quality of algorithms which detect a user’s body segments, finding real potential should the appropriate tools be developed. The power of the Kinect comes from its ability to ‘see’ depth, every point on an image […]
The Hardware Dubbed ‘the fastest selling electronic product in history’, Microsoft’s Kinect has clearly captured the attention of the gamer. The market was fundamentally changed by Nintendo and the Wii, the Kinect is Microsoft’s attempt at a user-friendly, demographic spanning input device. While the Wii takes signals from a hand-held ‘Wii-Mote’, the Kinect does away with controllers […]
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