As I like both cycling and technology I’m always amazed at how the broadcasters of the tour get out the pictures from a hundred miles or more of winding roads, and it was good to see Cardiff cyclist Geraint Thomas (the first Welshman for 40 years to ride it) enjoy the opening stages of the Tour De France 2007 as it came to London and the South East this weekend.
What’s even cooler is that German based mobile media specialist Unilabs are offering a ‘live tracker’ that provides a Google Maps mash up that includes real time biometric data such as the riders heart rate, speed, power output and cadence. Now in its second year the system relays the data from the monitoring tools that the teams use to keep track of rider performance and overlays it on Google maps.
This is one of those instances where the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, and whilst it may only be a few riders and it can be a bit clunky, it’s amazing to think that Burghardt or Paulinho is at that very moment in time pushing his way through the hardest endurance race on the planet and I’m sitting here with a coffee watching his heart rate…
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