Every year Common Sciencenames the yr’s high 100 improvements that symbolize important technological developments and “remedy unsolvable issues” — and this yr, the Garmin Descent™ line made the lower. The journal introduced that it dubbed the Garmin Descent™ Mk2i dive laptop and Descent™ T1 transmitter Better of What’s New within the Sports activities and Out of doors class.
The Descent T1 transmitter and Descent Mk2i watch-style dive laptop (every bought individually) monitor as much as 5 tanks for stress, air consumption fee and remaining air time for a number of forms of diving. The 2 gadgets talk utilizing SubWave™ know-how, a Garmin-developed, sonar-based communication that enables for revolutionary knowledge sharing and air integration underwater. Sound like magic? Our engineers guarantee us it’s not — learn this weblog publish from earlier this yr the place Garmin engineers DeJuan Gailes, Paul Earl and Adam Demicco, all of whom helped to develop SubWave, clarify simply precisely the way it works.
Common ScienceEditor-in-Chief Corinne Iozzio mentioned the Better of What’s New Awards have a good time “the yr’s biggest feats of human ingenuity — the steps in the direction of safer, more healthy, more-sustainable, and happier days forward,” and that’s simply how we really feel concerning the Garmin Descent lineup. Simply this yr it’s helped a scuba diver uncover an artery blockage, a philanthropic group gather greater than 8,000 kilos of trash (and counting) from Lake Tahoe and a freediving photographer safely dive with orca whales. We’re proud, to say the least.
To study extra concerning the award, learn Garmin’s press launch right here. To start out purchasing, view the Descent Mk2i right here and the Descent T1 transmitter right here.
