Well given our name, you could be mistaken that we do sports related things but to be quite honest we probably fare better at video game versions of athletics and doing what we do best in our spare time, tinkering with technology!
So how do you end up being asked by the Gadget Show on Channel 5 to do something for them on the topic of football and referee-less games using smart design?
Well it all started when we got a call from our friends Smallfry who had previously appeared as innovation and product design experts on the show and helped the hosts of the Gadget show, Jason Bradbury and Suzi Perry, go head to head in designing future wearable gadgets.
In this episode we were asked to come up with ways of detecting the offside rule and measurement of a free kick’s minimum distance between players of opposing teams using computer vision. If we’ve lost you there fear not. The process we went through is actually more exciting than the end product and the speedy turnaround and working proof of concept the real story.
This episode aired on Monday 13th of September on Channel 5 in the UK @ 8pm you can watch it here on the Channel 5 site (UK only) we start at 3m55s.
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