Tag: OLYMPICS

Back in May, we learned that London's iconic, double-decker buses would be getting a green makeover, just in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics. On Thursday, city mayor Boris Johnson finally unveiled a life-size model of the new bus in all its red resplendence. Unveiled at the London Transport Museum, the new bus is modeled after the original Routemaster, and features an open platform and a ...

While FIFA will probably never embrace technology in the World Cup, some sporting events are warming up to its potential benefits. According to the BBC News, athletes competing in the pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will shoot laser guns rather than the traditional air pistols used in past games. The switch reduces cost, for one, since laser guns won't use ammunition or air ...

Share When the Concorde luxury jet was retired seven years ago, after 27 years of dutiful service to the world's elite, it seemed like the end of an era. Now, however, efforts are underway to get the supersonic craft back in the air -- in time for the 2012 Olympic Games. As the BBC reports, engineers from the Save Concorde Group (SCG) and the French company Olympus 593 have already begun the ...

The bright red, double-decker Routemaster bus has long been an iconic symbol of the city of London, and Londoners were introduced to a new generation of green Routemasters this week that hopes to retain the original's distinct charms. Fast Company reports the original Routemaster was phased out of service in 2005, but London Mayor Boris Johnson pledged to bring in back. The sleekly redesigned ...

The Swiss architecture firm RAFAA must have been inspired by its Danish-Icelandic neighbor Olafur Eliasson when dreaming up this proposal for Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian city was recently selected to host the 2016 Olympics, and RAFAA submitted this enormous sun-powered waterfall, called Solar City Tower, to the Games' International Architecture Competition. While Eliasson's $15.5 million public ...

Timekeeping has moved past the simple stopwatch and thumb, and this year's Winter Games makes no exception. According to Wired, over 650 Omega employees and volunteers ensure that times and measurements are as accurate as possible, and the timing company spent six years prepping for Vancouver, refining and setting up the complex network of clocks and cameras essential to the competition. (Check ...

The Winter Olympics, in case you've been busy doing interesting things, are in full swing. For most of us, that means rallying behind anonymous athletes in obscure events, dozing off in front of curling, and wondering what Michelle Kwan is doing these days. It's also, however, a time when we turn our thoughts to ski chalet getaways, and, more importantly, the cool gear we can buy to justify them. ...

The 2010 Winter Olympics are raging in Vancouver, and a slew of medals have already been awarded. If you're looking for the best way to keep track of the games, you now have more options than you could imagine -- thanks to the Web. Thankfully, Tech Crunch has compiled a list of the sites that'll best keep you abreast of the Winter Games. The granddaddy of them all happens to be NBC's Olympic ...

If you thought the U.S. was turning into a police state, just count your 50 lucky stars you don't live in the U.K. where, according to The Guardian, civilian police forces are planning on employing military-like unmanned drones to keep aerial tabs on "antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves(?) and fly-tippers(??)." The Guardian managed to get their hands on documents outlining ...

Normally when we speak of "the cloud," we're talking about intangible bits and bytes stored on the Web. That digital cloud has inspired the design of the very much tangible The Cloud, one of the finalists in a competition to build a tourist attraction in London's planned 2012 Olympic Village. The Cloud was designed by an international team of architects, scientists, and artists, including ...

As Olympic athletes have increasingly resorted to complex steroids and synthetic drugs, even the most obstinate athletic purists have had to come to terms with the sobering fact that many of the gold medals awarded over the past few Games have been intrinsically linked to advances in science and technology. For the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, though, the union of sport and science ...

Now that competitive gaming is getting so darn competitive, there's growing sentiment amongst pro-gamers that virtual games should be added to the Olympic games. At a recent photo shoot, Wired.com asked the four athletes set to appear on the cover of Sega's video game based on the 2010 Olympics whether they thought this was a good idea. Unsurprisingly, the response was much more positive from the ...

Watch more YouTube videos on AOL Video Last week, the First Family issued its annual White House Holiday video, complete with appearances by Olympics Gold medalists Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin. The Bushes' selection of the Olympics as this year's theme struck us as a tad bizarre at first. Certainly, many folks in the U.S. adore gold medalists Phelps and Liukin, but really, what in the ...

Right on the heels of Yahoo!'s top search announcement last week, Google has posted its annual year-end Zeitgeist report, revealing the year's most popular searches by country. Not surprisingly, President-Elect Obama took first place in the United States' fastest rising general searches, with former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin taking seventh. Interestingly enough, though, Palin ...

Being famous has its perks. Take, for instance, Olympic superstar, Michael Phelps. Besides being the greatest Olympian of all time with 14 career gold medals, the 23-year-old swimming superstar undoubtedly has millions of dollars on the way through various sponsorship deals. Next on Phelps' list? His very own video game. While details are scarce at this moment, this isn't the first time Phelps' ...