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Why can't watching sports on TV be more, well, efficient? Ahmet Ekin says it can. The University of Rochester grad student wrote some clever software that recognizes and filters out the boring parts of a game. His Automatic Sports Video Analyzer stacks the action together at the bang-bang-bang pace of a highlight film, so a four-hour football matchup clocks in at about 60 minutes.
So far Ekin has tackled an app for football and soccer. He's negotiating with a Swiss company that plans to beam soccer and hockey highlights to cell phones during the 2004 Olympics, and TiVo users are a dream market. The software won't be out in time for January's Super Bowl, though. So if the game gets boring, you may need to reach for a low tech fix: the remote.
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