Tag: SURFING

Call us scaredy cats, but there's no way we'd follow in Mark Visser's footsteps. As part of a film, the adventure athlete rode a 30-foot wave off the coast of Maui in the dead of night, illuminated by the moon... oh, and his LED-bedecked life vest and surfboard. That's right: that blinking thing in the surf is a person, not a boat. Check out the video after the break. ...

Who says all surfers are gnarly? A University of California at San Diego engineering graduate student (and amateur surfer) is using his two loves -- science and surfing -- to figure out what makes the perfect board. According to Wired, Benjamin Thompson equipped a surfboard with eight sensors and a microprocessor that gathers data, like water velocity, and relays it back to an onshore laptop. ...

The domestic housewife may be something of a dying breed these days, with more and more couples both going into the workforce and leaving the kids to fend for themselves (hopefully with a little help from daycare), or not having kids at all. But, a British study is showing that those housewives who are left in the world aren't the household dwellers you might imagine, spending half of their time ...

Comparison shopping site Moneysupermarket recently conducted a study of 2,412 British adults and their Web surfing habits. The unbelievably ground-breaking findings? People waste a lot of time online. The study found that people spend an average of 30-percent of their time (up to two full days per month) surfing aimlessly, or what's being dubbed 'wilfing' (for What was I Looking For?). Results ...