Can High Tech Swimwear Help You Swim Faster?

The relationship between sport and technology is nothing new. In recent years innovation and technology has advanced rapidly, increasing the questions regarding the effects, it is having within competitive sport: Are the outcomes being dictated by equipment. Is the effect on sport positive or negative? should such technology be prohibited and when? An investigation into the effect technology applications (within equipment) is having on sport using swimming as an example, due to controversy surrounding technology use over the last decade.