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ShadowBox

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:07 pm
by bwd
A cool new GPS unit that records speed and your board movement in 3 dimensions (how high you jumped and how fast you rotated):
http://www.shadowboxlive.com/

[Vimeo2]http://vimeo.com/9253263[/Vimeo2]

$499 USD
We may have to add some more entries in the sailing log!

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:34 pm
by nanmoo
Neat! Why is it always so windy and warm in these videos!?!

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:43 pm
by more force 4
The video does explain it - their website doesn't. As I figured, its more than GPS -they have an inertial nav system as well - I wondered when someone was going to market something like this. My late techy friend Ian McKay was custom making things like this about 10-15 years ago for testing cargo parachute performance.

Cool for kiters (or windsurfers) to be able to properly measure their jump heights, flight time, etc.