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Under Armour's Armour39 $25,000 challenge. Get busy, nerds

ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
edited 2013-11-12 08:23 in General Discussion
It looks like Under Armour is looking for ways to help jocks achieve their destiny. It's a medical sports monitoring kinda thang. Get busy, nerds.

http://www.ninesights.com/community/under-armour

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-10-22 08:47
    Sounds like MicroMedic all over again. Guys, keep resubmitting your old ideas to new contests until they win!
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2013-10-22 09:14
    Link didn't work for me.
  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2013-10-22 09:15
    Winner gets $25k and keeps their intellectual property rights. Definitely a contest worth entering.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-22 09:31
    Leon wrote: »
    Link didn't work for me.

    Maybe you're just not nerd enough???

    C'mon, Leon, you need to get your geek on.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-10-22 09:49
    I got this from OpenDNS when I clicked the link:
    Hmm, www.ninesights.com isn't loading right now. The servers that run www.ninesights.com are having some trouble. This is usually just a temporary problem, so you might want to try again in a few minutes.

    -Phil
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-10-22 11:54
    I think what is REALLY needed in the Sports Industry is for someone to come up with a way to keep the players off steroids and play the sports the way they are meant to be played!!!!
  • RickBRickB Posts: 395
    edited 2013-10-22 12:02
    AMEN!

    And lifetime bans for those that don't.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2013-10-22 12:18
    ElectricAye wrote: »
    Maybe you're just not nerd enough???

    C'mon, Leon, you need to get your geek on.

    It's working, now!
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-22 12:49
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    I think what is REALLY needed in the Sports Industry is for someone to come up with a way to keep the players off steroids and play the sports the way they are meant to be played!!!!

    Aw, heck, what fun is that? I think they oughta be allowed to pump themselves up with whatever Smile they can get their hands on. Think how much less boring football would be, for example, if every tackle resulted in one or more team members bursting into flames via spontaneous combustion.
  • PoundSign2PoundSign2 Posts: 129
    edited 2013-10-22 19:13
    erco wrote: »
    Sounds like MicroMedic all over again. Guys, keep resubmitting your old ideas to new contests until they win!

    Hey it works...

    ...And if it aint broke, don't fix it.
  • PoundSign2PoundSign2 Posts: 129
    edited 2013-10-22 19:18
    ElectricAye wrote: »
    Aw, heck, what fun is that? I think they oughta be allowed to pump themselves up with whatever Smile they can get their hands on. Think how much more interesting football would be, for example, if every tackle resulted in one or more team members bursting into flames via spontaneous combustion.


    football-head-shot-collision.jpg



    I actually agree that letting them go on the 'roids would be better. How much money was wasted on Lance Armstrong? Last I heard on the Sports Radio Talk Show here in Portland was estimated to be $5 million. Five.Million.Dollars. To prove a guy with one testicle (no offense) cheated in a bike race. That's ridiculous. Could have just let them go at it, full-bore, and watch a darn good race. Athletes, professional anyways, always want to improve, to get better, to recover from injuries faster and be the best. Let them have the 'roids. Professional sports are entertainment.I don't get how people can watch half the Smile on TV (which shows a lot of drug usage by the way) and call it entertainment but the moment a drug is in a sporting event all hell breaks loose. Just enjoy the show I say.
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2013-10-22 19:41
    I did find a place to get conductive spandex ..... sewn in ECG any one !?
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2013-10-22 20:05
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    I think what is REALLY needed in the Sports Industry is for someone to come up with a way to keep the players off steroids and play the sports the way they are meant to be played!!!!

    Relevant:
    steroids.png
  • PoundSign2PoundSign2 Posts: 129
    edited 2013-10-22 20:32
    Peter KG6LSE wrote: »
    I did find a place to get conductive spandex ..... sewn in ECG any one !?

    Why stop at clothing? I bet we could go even further... I bet we could sew it into our skin. You think they'll go for it?
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-22 21:30
    PoundSign2 wrote: »
    Why stop at clothing? I bet we could go even further... I bet we could sew it into our skin. You think they'll go for it?

    If the conductivity is based on copper, cobalt, rhodium, or other metals, just think how colorful the football players will glow once they burst into flames via spontaneous combustion. (Anyone happen to know what the emission spectra of various steroids might be? I bet it's spectacular.) Just think of all the money they could save by not needing flood lights during a game at night. oooh.... awwww.....
  • PoundSign2PoundSign2 Posts: 129
    edited 2013-10-22 21:35
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  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2013-10-22 21:39
    I clicked on the link in post 1.

    Sorry, but the skeptic in me says that it looks more like a membership drive than anything else.
  • jonesjones Posts: 281
    edited 2013-10-23 13:04
    Peter KG6LSE wrote: »
    I did find a place to get conductive spandex ..... sewn in ECG any one !?
    Hmm. Maybe that's a way to get top performance without steroids. A little conductive spandex in critical areas, a battery and DC/DC converter, and a trigger in the coach's hand.
  • PoundSign2PoundSign2 Posts: 129
    edited 2013-10-23 15:37
    jones wrote: »
    Hmm. Maybe that's a way to get top performance without steroids. A little conductive spandex in critical areas, a battery and DC/DC converter, and a trigger in the coach's hand.

    You might be on to something here...
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-11-12 07:12
    It appears that their deadline for submissions has been pushed to 22 November 2013. I sense they are not getting very many submissions, so if you've got an idea, why not give it a try?

    I'm a little baffled by the lack of interest. I wonder if it's an artifact of that immense cultural gulf that seems to persist between jocks and nerds. Last thing a nerd wants to do is empower a jock. Last thing a jock wants to hear is a little electronic voice with a nasal accent that says, "Golly, Rex, you're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you...Golly, Rex, you're good enough, you're smart enough, and with time and those little pills I remind you to take, your concussion will get better a little each day... "
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-11-12 08:23
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    I think what is REALLY needed in the Sports Industry is for someone to come up with a way to keep the players off steroids and play the sports the way they are meant to be played!!!!

    When the only thing that matters is WINNING, there's no such thing as cheating. Addressing this would require a cultural change.
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