GPS helping the Swans

[Go Swannies]

http://tinyurl.com/p4yau

And it's not about Lewie's private school.

[Tuesday]

Perhaps it's due to the tumble I took at basketball this evening, but I found this rather amusing...

"It is a little unit that tunes into the GPS satellites that are used by NASA and whatever secret organisations use those GPS tracking devices."

[iigrover]

Do you think its possible that the coaching staff could attach a warning alarm/buzzer to the the GPS device to go off if it senses LRT's location is out of bounds, thereby warning him not to play on?

[Thunder Shaker]

"It is a little unit that tunes into the GPS satellites that are used by NASA and whatever secret organisations use those GPS tracking devices.

"It just bounces signals off those satellites and it is able to accurately assess how far a player has run, how fast they are running and also heart-rate."

Just a clarification on how GPS works - GPS tracking devices don't have a transmitter, so it cannot bounce signals off the satellites. A transmitter powerful enough to be received by a satellite 22,000 km away is not something one wears next to the skin!

[Provost]

I'll second that!!!

A GPS 'receiver' is a passive device.
No signal is sent from the unit.
This guy is either stupid or just overly dumbing things down for joe public to understand

No good at Telstra Dome with the roof closed

[Sanecow]

I wouldn't be surprised if it sucks near the boundary when satellites near the horizon disappear from view.