Paralympics 2012: How technology is transforming the Games
By Eddie Wrenn
Daily Mail
As Britain’s paralympic basketball team takes to the court, they have a secret weapon – a hi-tech foam seat designed by BMW engineers using cutting-edge technologies from motor sport.
It is just part of a range of cutting-edge technologies on show at the Paralympics this year – from the Ghost glove improves technique by offering vibrating feedback on your form and posture, to human exo-skeletons which provide ‘Iron Man’-style superhuman strength.
At the next Paralympics, we could see blind runners taking a course unaided thanks to headsets which can watch for hurdles as well as providing left and right instructions, and perhaps a new generation of ‘blade runners’, who can use advanced technology to push themselves even further.
The technology is well-embedded in the 2012 Games, with the carbon ‘blade runners’ perhaps the most visible example of the aiding technology.
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September 4, 2012
Athletics