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Indifferent swimmers break 8 world records while whining about Speedo's LZR Racer continues {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 11:22AM Many of those comparisons are ridiculous, or wrong. In cycling you can wear skinsuits, aero helmets, use deep rim carbon wheels, and many other things that can help enhance the ability that you already have. Track athletes (we'll choose sprinters for right now) have better uniforms that help keep muscles tight and newer shoe and spike designs that help with grip and cornering in races.
No one is going to take this gear and suddenly be world class. If you're already good, it's going to help you, but it's not instantly making you a star (that aero helmet and deep carbon wheels don't even help you unless you can keep that bike at 20+ MPH anyway). The swimsuit is just helping to enhance the abilities that the athletes already have. Phelps, Piersol, Coughlin, Hoff, Lezak and more all made the Olympics and Worlds the past few years, winning and setting World Records without the LZR suit, so obviously it hasn't turned them into something they weren't before.
If the suit is legal, and everyone has access to it, then there shouldn't be any room for complaints about it. Unless we want to try to keep things how they were at the start of the Olympics (cinder tracks, no goggles, no starting blocks), as long as the playing field is level for everyone now, just worry about the races and forget about the suit.
Pistons Sign Kwame Brown. Insert Joke Here. {Fanhouse NBA Blog}
Jul 29th 2008 8:41AM The problem with the Rasheed comparison is that Rasheed was a great player (I'm a Blazers fan), he was just a first class prick at the same time. Kwame might be a much nicer guy off the court, but he's nowhere near as good as Rasheed was when the Pistons acquired him.
Oscar Pistorius fails to qualify for the Olympics {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 8:45PM Going off that logic, then, if they wound up with prosthesis in the future that were far more efficient than human legs, the only possible way to qualify for the Olympics would be to have your own legs amputated and run with those prosthesis? Given that that have a separate Olympics for people with prosthesis's, and they can't be sure it offers no advantage, I was OK with banning him for the moment.
Oscar Pistorius fails to qualify for the Olympics {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 8:21PM He was cleared, but there was another study done by someone looking at the split times of people that run the 400m, and Oscar was the only person that ran a negative split (faster 2nd 200 than first 200). That can be read here:
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2007/07/oscar-pistorius-debut-scientific-facts_17.html
Some people imagine that he might be able to run a faster 800m than anyone due to this (very slow start, much faster afterwards), but as the 400m is the longest distance that uses individual lanes, in the 800m his prosthetic might interfere with other runners so no one is sure that he would be allowed to compete, or that it would be fair.
Ask Engadget: What's the best entry-level DSLR? {Engadget}
May 29th 2008 7:03PM I got the Olympus E-510 for Christmas with the 2 lens kit, and now you can find it for $600, which is an incredibly good deal. It's a great size, and I get incredible pictures out of it whether I'm at home, or taking pictures at a triathlon or of a concert. Compared to Canon/Nikon you'll get built-in IS, and two lenses in a smaller size. You will have a smaller selection of lenses to pick from later, but the selection is growing, and the Olympus lenses are amazing quality as well.
Vince Young: Shirtless, Swilling at a Party? {Fanhouse NFL Blog}
May 16th 2008 9:01AM At least with his name tattooed on his back, everyone knew who he was with his shirt off.
Final specifications for Lenovo's IdeaPad U110 revealed {Engadget}
Apr 28th 2008 3:57PM Except that the Dell is 70% heavier or so. I might prefer the Dell myself for how I use a laptop, but I'm not going to say it's better in every way, when it's not.
Oppo's DV-983H universal player gets reviewed {Engadget HD}
Apr 18th 2008 3:04PM The person that is buying this probably already has a BluRay player, and an HD-DVD player, and a nice display, and just wants the absolute best image they can get for their (presumably quite large) DVD collection.
Apple launches 802.11n Airport Express right on cue {Engadget}
Mar 17th 2008 10:33AM Does anyone know if this will stream Apple Lossless without first converting it to 128 Kbit AAC like the first models did? I'd pick one up today if I could stream all my lossless music, but will pass if it still has to down-convert it.
Insane Wes Welker Praise Must Stop {Fanhouse NFL Blog}
Feb 5th 2008 4:49PM #4: Maybe it has something to do with the NBA voting on MVP before the playoffs, so Nash had his team as one of the Top 2-3 teams record wise in the NBA, and they had no idea how to predict if he would make the Finals or not? They have a Finals MVP award they give out as well, you know, and if they gave that to Nash without him making the Finals, then maybe that matters.
