When Tyson Gay failed to medal in the 100 meter dash by 1/100th of a second, he could hardly blame the timing equipment. Wind the clock back to 1932 however, and he would have had a much stronger argument.
Ever since the first modern Olympics in 1896, a starting pistol has been used to get all of the competitors moving at the same time. Now however, the pistol has been declared too slow, and in London they are using an electronic beep trigger to start races.
Headphones are the hottest deal in high-end audio these days, so this weekend at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, there's a big separate section called CanJam dedicated to personal audio. I got to hear a lot of amazing...