RePla: Silver, Student Designs

Contact: Bill Monaghan, Compaq, 408.285.2645; bill.monaghan@compaq.com

Designers: Shane Kohatsu, California State Univ. at Long Beach

Client: Compaq Computer Corp.

Monitoring an athlete's performance electronically is not a graceful experience. To accomplish this today takes hundreds of wires taped to the user, a powerful processor and video monitoring. Compaq's Repla concept would attain instant replay, stop action, analysis and advice from a set of modules worn by the user and activated through wireless devices.