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November 07, 2005
Curling Is a Sexy Techno-Sport
Posted by Nick
I lived in Canada for a few months during the winter Olympics one year, and I got deep into curling. Yeah, the weird game with the big stones and the brooms. Anyway, I'm happy to see curling is adopting some cool training technologies:
Loaded with sensors and a memory card, the 'sweep ergometer' allows curlers to measure how well they are performing one of the game's crucial tasks: sweeping the ice in front of the stone to help guide it perfectly to the target.
The downward force exerted by the sweepers, how far the brush travels across the path of the stone and details on the fitness of the players are all collected by the broom and fed into a computer for analysis.
The development is a milestone in the world of curling, where the exact effects of sweeping have long been debated and continue to be a matter of guesswork for most of the game's 1.4 million players.
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Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
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