Halo Wearables, a Michigan-based sports technology startup, will launch the first non-invasive hydration monitoring wearable in early 2016, tailored specifically for elite athletes. Co-founder Trevor Calero spoke to us in a phone interview about the backstory of Halo Wearables. “Two of our engineers studied non-invasive blood analysis and discovered that even a few percentage drop […]
Fit for 90 is a growing player-monitoring system being delivered to elite soccer teams. The basis of the program is to quantify each athlete’s daily readiness on a 100-point scale in order to provide coaches with the information to optimize performance and development across the entire team. Highly reliant on player feedback, the subjective nature […]
Andre Iguodala had a busy summer. On June 16th, the Golden State Warriors were crowned NBA Champions and Iguodala earned Finals MVP honors. On July 20th, Twice, the first company in which he invested was acquired by eBay. And on August 8th, he married longtime girlfriend Christina Gutierrez. Not to mention the countless media appearances […]
When Easton and Blast Motion offered to send one of their Easton Power Sensors to us here at SportTechie, they most likely had in mind that the sensor would fall into the hands of someone good at baseball. If they had even lower expectations, they might even accept someone who used to be good at […]
The Big 12 Conference has partnered with PhotoShelter’s digital asset management business unit, Libris, to help meet the challenges they faced in efficiently organizing and sharing their 70,000 plus photos. Over twenty years, the Big 12 have accumulated thousands of photos of student-athletes, coaches, events and championships. Having so many photos on their hard drive […]
