Jul 14, 2026 – 5.00amMax Studer, Olympic triathlete, has sensors attached to his knee, waist, thigh, toes and arm and is running a 3:45-minute kilometre. In case you weren’t sure, that’s fast.A 10-camera motion system feeds images and information to monitors around the room showing exactly how his foot is landing, where his knee is angled, how much oxygen he’s breathing in and just how hard his heart is working. At 16 kilometres an hour he’s basically sprinting, but his heart thinks he’s going for a light 132 beats-per-minute jog.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Lucy DeanWealth reporterLucy Dean was a wealth reporter at The Australian Financial Review.Fetching latest articles
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