On: Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom

[thinkloop]

From my reading it is only meant as a training tool.

[masklinn → thinkloop]

That is also my understanding. In fact the end of the article states they'd like to get the

> hardware light enough to embed in brooms used in competition so that real-time statistics can be broadcast on television.

but currently it's solely a training tool.

[jonwachob91 → masklinn]

Using those sensors in competition wouldn't alter the skill/athleticism required of the athletes like the directional bristle broom. It would simply increase the amount of data that broadcasters / journalists have to work with, increasing the visibility of the sport.

[masklinn → jonwachob91]

Yes.