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Commercialization

Spinoffs That Are Hip

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 3, 2007

HangTimer Product Website: “Whether you huck off a cliff, bomb down a bike trail, or just toss it (and yourself) in the air, the HangTimer’s built in tri-axis accelerometer measures your actual hangtime. The carabiner style design fits comfortably in the palm of the hand and can be easily read when clipped to a belt loop. … The HangTimer uses a Tri-Axis Accelerometer to detect accelerations that a person experiences when airborne. This is the same technology used by NASA in their spacecraft – so we’re not kidding about the Rocket Science.”

Editor’s note: Gee if NASA’s Strategic Communications folks were a little more hip, they’d be tracking the spinoffs that young people might actually use – instead of going on and on (year after year) about how NASA somehow invented pacemakers, modern computers, and smoke detectors.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.