IBM’s famed Watson, a computer system of artificial intelligence, has moved on from his Jeopardy winning days. Now, Watson is being put to use to rule the world of fantasy football. Edge Up Sports, a sports analytics website, is working with IBM to create a Watson-powered fantasy football app. The app is developed as part […]
Baseball has always been a game of statistics and numbers. Recently, with improvements in technology, those stats have received a facelift; most notably with MLB’s Statcast. Now, Easton is quantifying a player’s swing with the Easton Power Sensor, powered by Blast Motion. This new sensor will aim to help baseball players improve their swing using […]
World famous soccer player, David Beckham, became a founding investor for the new British startup app, MyEye. Similar to Meerkat and Periscope, MyEye allows users to film, watch and share live clips with just a flick of a finger. Within the first 48 hours, Beckham got over four million people to download the app. MyEye […]
The Washington Redskins’ FedEx Field does not have a storied reputation for a good fan experience. It is a stadium and experience that is relatively unchanged over the years, and plays to some of the NFL’s most undesirable fan personalities. Redskins’ president Bruce Allen recently announced plans to change this perception with an e-mail to […]
The adage goes “the brain is the strongest muscle.” HeadTrainer, Inc. have taken that to a whole new level, by releasing an app on Sunday that provides a series of exercises for the athlete brain. Developed with a team of neuroscientists and sports psychologists at the Duke Sports Science Institute, HeadTrainer provides youth athletes with different “daily workouts” […]
