If you're not a cycling fan, the story below is pretty cool. If you are a cycling fan, things just got a lot cooler. If you happen to be like Oude Granny, a cycling fan and a techno geek, then your brain just went nuclear.
Check out what some of the lads starting this year's Amgen Tour of California will be doing.
"During this year's edition of the pro cycling race, the Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, will outfit seven contenders with specially designed tracking devices. Information about the riders' locations and relative positions in the race will be made available as a map mashup during each of the tour's eight daylong stages.
CSC -- which is a sponsor of the tour and the title sponsor of Team CSC, one of 20 teams in cycling's elite ProTour league -- is hoping that its new technology will give cycling's rabid fan base a more immersive view of the sport.
"This is more than just GPS," says CSC's Identity Labs chief technologist Dan Munyan. "This is object field tracking. We want to be able to focus on a field of objects in motion, looking not only at where they are on the route, but also where they are relative to each other."
For the full article, check out Wired magazine.
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