The public vision of any triathlete is that it’s all bulging muscles, seriously hardcore events, sunshine and the occasional dip into a pool of Nutri-Grain for poorly-defined reasons. As world champion Craig Alexander explained yesterday, there’s quite a bit of technology that goes into it as well.
Nothing can stop these little guys. Panasonic’s Evolta battery-powered robots were already pretty impressive, but now they’re going for a hat trick of endurance-testing awesomeness by taking on Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon later this Fall.
Sensors in a t-shirt – now there’s a novel idea. The ‘Under Armour E39 compression shirt’ is made from a mix of regular nylon and elastacine, which dosn’t sound very cool, until you attach the removable sensor pack to the t-shirt, which screams ‘I am a massive geek!’.
Mickey Rourke wants to kill Iron Man but is doing his part to save print journalism in this new teaser for Iron Man 2. Hold tight—every day that passes is a day closer to May 7. [io9]
Hey, look another Moto Android handset, codenamed IRONMAN. Maybe it’s just the crappiness of the shot, but Moto’s Halo-esque Calgary strikes me more. But like Iron Man, this thing is supposedly loaded.