Controversial calls in soccer about whether a player was offsides or a ball really made it behind the goal line could be a thing of the past thanks to a new technology developed in Germany.
The scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits looked somewhat out of place on the practice field next to their Erlangen facility kicking a soccer ball around. But although they might be stiff-legged and pale from all that time sitting in front of computer screens, the decidedly unsporty researchers could be changing the way world soccer is refereed.
They have developed a new, wireless ball and player location system that can immediately tell referees and game analysts where the soccer ball or striker is at any point in time -- to the centimeter.
The Fraunhofer scientists got the initial assist from Cairos Technologies in Karlsbad. The company's director, Hartmut Braun, got the idea with a friend after watching a game. He knew that after a soccer game, fans around the world gather at their local bars or in homes debating whether the ball was actually in the goal or some player was really offsides when he made that winning kick.
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1449684,00.htmlWell, actually the only thing noteworthy about the article is the caption of the photo.
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