This far into the 21st-century, sports don’t need overwhelming global or national popularity to take part in the technological crusade that has revolutionized entertainment and activity as we know it. Most recently, this acknowledgement has given kiteboarding — which essentially combines wakeboarding, windsurfing, and a few other sports — the opportunity to technologically enhance the […]
At the Manhattan Plaza Racquet Club last week, PIQ and Babolat held an exclusive event to unveil a new product – a wrist sensor that tracks everything about a tennis player’s game. The accessory, named POP, was created with one goal in mind: to get people to have more fun while playing tennis, leading to […]
With wearables becoming extremely popular for sports enthusiasts, we are beginning to see companies hone in on niche markets and provide products very specific to different sports. Well-known French tennis brand, Babolat, has teamed up with Swiss based software company PIQ to generate a wearable specific to tennis. The Babolat POP is a device compatible […]
Wearables have come a long way since the Casio Databank watch debuted in the 1980s. These days, our wearables remind us to get moving, let us pay for purchases without a wallet, and help us stay in touch through emails, texts, and calls – is it any surprise that the tennis industry is also bursting […]
As all sports technology startups try to become mainstream, one of the several, underlying prevalent issues remain constant: education of a respective company’s benefits from its technology to the consumer level. Be it derived from the tech sector over sports or vice versa notwithstanding, common ground needs to transpire in order to reach desired […]
