The Germans and the Argentinians battled out the final match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on Sunday, July 13. While the global games will not resume until the Russians host them in the summer of 2018, sports enthusiasts will be buzzing about this tournament for some time to come.
Between June 12 and July 13, the Brazilians made headlines and set new records in the international game of soccer. Some new technologies were introduced in Rio, when a paraplegic in a full robotic suit kicked off the month-long competition. And new goal-line technologies connected fourteen stadium cameras (seven focused on each goal post) and a mainframe computer with referees’ wristwatches, which transmitted vibrations and messages each time a goal was scored.
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