Following up last year’s launch of the industry-changing Nike FuelBand, the global athletics and lifestyle force recently released their follow-up, the FuelBand SE, to a very eager market. After its high profile launch last month,…
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News: Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled its design for the first of several new stadiums that will hold football matches during the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Despite efforts to move the international football tournament to the winter, Zaha Hadid Architects is working alongside architecture and engineering firm AECOM to design a 40,000-seat venue that will be suitable for use during Qatar’s hot summer climate.
The stadium will be located in Al Wakrah, the southern-most city hosting the tournament. It is the first of up to nine stadiums that could be constructed in Qatari cities, with five expected to start on site next year.
According to project director Jim Heverin, the shape of the stadium will be based on the curved form of the Dhow – a type of Arabian fishing boat that can often be spotted at the town’s harbour.
This form will give the structure a curving roof intended to shield both players and spectators from the intense desert sunshine, which can cause temperatures to exceed beyond 50 degrees.
The architects also plan to combine mechanical air-conditioning with passive design principles to keep temperatures below 30 degrees.
During the tournament the venue will accommodate 40,000 spectators, but this will be reduced to 20,000 once the competition is over. Left-over seats will then be removed and shipped to developing countries.
Zaha Hadid is also currently working on a stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which recently came under fire after Japanese architects said it was too big.
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Few things are as American as the idea that with a great work ethic, any individual can achieve anything—be it as grand a dream as becoming the president or a professional athlete or as seemingly basic as earning an education. While this fundamental…
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The Impetus leg prosthetic gives sports-minded amputees not only the capability to play sports again, but to boost their confidence while doing so. 3D printed sections on the design can be interchanged and created precisely for the wearer’s individual taste and style or to carry uniform colors. Designed and shaped to bipedal physics and proportions, it gives amputees ability and aesthetics on the same level as non-amputee players.
Designer: Aurélien Dantin
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With the advancement of camera technology within mobile phones—like Nokia’s astounding 41-megapixel sensor in the recently released Lumia 1020, for example—the need for a separate everyday point and shoot camera is dwindling. But Nikon is proving where this sector is still relevant with…
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Product news: this ping pong table by Barcelona studio Antoni Pallejà Office has been pared down to look at home in a domestic interior (+ movie).
Shunning the usual blue surface and black metal supports found on a standard table tennis setup, Antoni Pallejà Office paired a white top with wooden legs so the Bola Service Table wouldn’t look out of place in a home.
“This table conveys the warmth required of a piece for the home but without losing the sporty look,” said the designers.
The net is made from a fine mesh and has white edging on the top and sides, with a pink line along the bottom.
Iroko wood legs slot into a steel frame at angles, supporting the playing surface that is marked lengthways down its centre with a thin black line to distinguish service areas.
Paddles, balls and the net can be tucked into a hidden pocket denoted by a pink strip under this surface when not in use, so the table can be used for other purposes.
Produced by design brand RS Barcelona, the table can be used both indoors and outdoors.
If you like sport-related design you might also be interested in a chair made of a tennis net or a countdown clock to speed up daily tasks.
The movie featured was made by Commission.
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Mexican studio Agent has designed a concept for a transparent football that changes colour when it passes over the goal line.
What Agent claims would be the world’s first see-through football would employ sensors that detect kick force and travel speed, plus provide GPS information to track the exact position of the ball.
Electronic components embedded in its centre would communicate information gathered from the sensors to control stations in the stadium.
As the ball would be locatable relative to the pitch, lights in its core could be programmed to change colour if it goes out of bounds or into the goal.
A stabilised on-board camera could relay a ball’s eye view to the screens around the stadium.
The ball is designed in a flexible plastic, which would allow it to bounce in the same way as a standard design. “The flexibility provided by the materials emulates the bounce of an inflated pneumatic soccer ball, but offers the advantage of not losing air,” said the designers.
An internal web would provide the structure and a transparent spherical shell full of holes would form the kicking surface. This composition means the ball wouldn’t rely on air or need re-inflating after use.
We’ve also featured Nike’s ultra-light football boot featuring components made from beans and recycled plastic and news that a stadium in Brazil is to be equipped with a solar-powered roof for next year’s FIFA World Cup.
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England’s rugged Cornish coast might not be the first place you’d expect to find a flourishing, stylish, custom wetsuit company, but Neon—located in England’s surf mecca, Newquay—handcrafts made-to-order men’s and women’s wetsuits out of their workshop…
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Puntuale arriva l’esclusiva collezione running per la Fall/Winter firmata da Jun Takahashi. La palette di colori rimane neutra, lavora con blocchi di colore complementari che si ispirano alle tonalità urbane e degli ambienti rurali convivendo in armonia tra loro. All’interno del post il resto della collezione.
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