Re: Time clocks

Paul Little wrote:
> The problem with that device is that it needs to be embedded in the ice. The
> ice at most major championships is not made from scratch. The ice makers
> come into an arena and work with existing ice.
>
>
> > But the thing that would really help curling is a hog-line violation
> > tool.  A Canadian University has patented a hog-line sensor a couple of
> > years ago, but it does not seem to have made it into viable product...
> > at least not from what I have seen.
> >
> > http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/Apr21-00/research.html
> >
> > (I personally think that they are stumbling over the wrong technology
> > but that's just my opionion.)

Actually, they do not use as much "existing" ice as you may think.  They 
rip up a good layer of it and basically lay down their own.  They 
already embed the temperature sensors that they use to feed their 
computer information during the competition, so they defintely rip deep 
enough to embed any electronic sensor, should it be useful to do so.



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