Wearables can provide an athlete with valuable training insight. They can also provide the hassle of battery life, clunkiness and overall impractical product design. Spire Health, creator of the Spire Stone, is introducing a new product, eliminating many of those nuisances. The Spire Health Tag flips the idea of a “wearable” on its head, avoiding […]
NEW YORK — For the golf course of the future to be smart, it’s going to enable golfers to instantaneously use video replay to break down their swings. That’s what sports technology company PlaySight sees, and investor Greg Norman can envision it, too. “You can do it on your phone nowadays, so making it even […]
Many tennis players use a tennis dampener, a cheap piece of silicone that reduces the vibration of the strings and makes a smoother sound on contact with the ball. The dampener created by Courtmatics does a lot more. By placing a microcomputer complete with inertial sensors, internal memory and Bluetooth inside a typical dampener, the […]
Apple’s GymKit technology, the new Apple Watch implementation on commercial cardio machines, has started to roll out in Australia and is expected to soon follow in the U.S. Since announcing an update for Apple Watch in June, Apple has been working with the world’s biggest equipment machine manufacturers to enable seamless sharing of user biometric […]
As awareness of concussions and other traumatic brain injuries increase in sports, especially football, professional sports leagues have implemented protocols and standards designed to help teams keep their players from further harm. But what about colleges, where the risk is the same but the resources and standards are often different? The Pac-12 might have an […]
