Afterguard – heads-up display for sailing
C’è questi nuovi occhiali da sole che gli vengono proiettati tutti i dati di navigazione sulle lenti. Roba da tattici. Qualcuno ricorderà Giacomina Sputacollina che li aveva durante l’ultima America’s Cup. Ecco… quelli che aveva lui erano attaccati a un cavo che a sua volta era attaccato a uno zainetto che Giacomino aveva sulla schiena. Questi sono completamente wireless. Costano tra i 1900 e i 2500 dollari, a seconda.
Il comunicato c’ho troppa prigrizia per tradurlo, eccolo:
Sailboat racing has evolved with the technology era and is now driven by data and instrumentation. The difference between winning and losing is the ability to adapt a carefully orchestrated plan to the ever-changing natural and competitive environment, faster than the competition. Having the right information at the right time can be that difference.
The Afterguard system, with patent pending technology, provides this information by combining a fighter pilot style HUD with boat instrumentation data to give the best situational intelligence and performance metrics at a glance, on a small display mounted on sunglasses made for the harshest of environments. A number of screens and features are available to the user:
StartSequence
At a glance the user will know with certainty how the boat is tracking to the start line, freeing the crew to concentrate on the speed build and competition, for the perfect start. This is made possible by the intelligent time-to-kill metric that uses the boat’s current heading and speed to calculate the exact amount of time the boat must kill before crossing the line precisely at the gun.
Performance Dashboard