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3D Photo Booth For Fitness Wins Olympique de Marseille Startup Contest

Exsens, a Paris-based startup with a 3D Photo Booth that automatically generates full body avatars that can be animated for use in fitness training, was announced as the winner of last month’s #OMInnovationCup put on by football club Olympique de Marseille and will display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. Exsens, […]

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Stephen Curry Under Armour Shoes Flown To Bay Area Fans Via Drone

Stephen Curry’s new basketball shoe, the Curry 4 “More Dubs” colorway that’s especially for Golden State Warriors fans, dropped for sale on Saturday. Before the shoes hit mass market, though, Curry fans across the Bay Area had a chance to grab an autographed pair as they fell from the sky. The Curry 4 #DroneDrop brought […]

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Fan-Engaging Tech Earns Tata Communications F1 Connectivity Prize

The fan experience at Formula One Grands Prix could involve mobile connectivity well into the future, thanks to the work of a pair of men from the United Kingdom, Benjamin Lambert and Alexander Gibson. Lambert and Gibson won the Tata Communications F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize, it was announced Thursday. They designed a system that would […]

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BT Sport Launches Infinity Lab Competition For Startups

British telecommunications giant BT has launched a competition to find startups that can help to improve sports broadcasts on its BT Sport subscription TV channels. This is the second time this competition will be run for BT Sport and will be handled by BT’s Infinity Lab. The application to enter is now open and the […]

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Podium Silicon Valley Launches World Cup For Sports Tech Startups

Venture capital fund Podium Silicon Valley (SV) has launched a new startup competition, modeled on soccer’s World Cup, for early-stage sports technology companies. The SportsTech World Cup will kick off with a Nordic edition this week, with other regional versions planned to follow in the future. Sports technology companies from the five Nordic countries of […]

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