Introducing the 'lie detecting' shin pad that can thwart attempts by footballers to falsely dive

A remarkably deft invention from a group of British researchers can literally change the face of the 'beautiful game'. They have come with an advanced shin pad that can actually detect any sort of false diving on the part of the players.

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The pads have built-in system of sensory magnets and alarms, and with the recent spurt of play acting going in football, the cacophony of alarms will certainly be a welcome change in this case. As product designer, Andy Shaw explains:

We've got lots of technology in here. We've got sensors built into the front of the shin pad and we've got an alarm on the side. So if someone dives, the sensors won't go off and the alarm won't sound. If there's a geniune impact, the alarm will sound so we'll be alerted to the fact there's been a foul. It will decide if you've been fouled or not so it will really tell you that there's no point in diving anymore.

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The technology is still in its prototype stage and we will have wait for some time to see if it would be implemented at all. Former Premiership referee Jeff Winter was himself present during the testing phase. He said:

I am not too convinced that we'll see bleeping shin pads in the Premiership in the foreseeable future. I'll settle in my life time for seeing goal line technology. But the most important thing is listening to the fans and bringing it into a debate as to what can we do to stop it. Perhaps the only way we're ever going to see if I'm right or whether the pundits are right is to actually trial it and do it in a friendly game of football and then we'd see if indeed it did work.

Still one can't deny the novelty of this righteous conception, and so to all the Torreses and the Robbens; better get your 'act' right!

Video courtesy: Telegraph

Source: Daily Mail