Baseball history is awash with stories of pitchers adding new pitches to their repertoire by the same rote method: a teammate or coach suggests a grip, the pitcher fiddles with the ball until he gets a good feel and then he debuts his new offering in a game. This is addition by anecdote, a happenstance […]
A deterrent to long-term wearable use is having to remove devices to charge overnight. But what if the sweat you naturally produce could keep devices like smartwatches powered 24/7? A team of engineers based out of the University of California San Diego have developed stretchable fuel cells that can extract energy from sweat and are […]
Strava, the social network for athletes that recently tapped Instagram executive James Quarles to serve as its chief executive officer, announced a number of partnerships with gyms and fitness apps this week as it seeks to widen the scope of its service and allow users to track workouts from select exercise machines. The company announced […]
Apple’s first keynote event from the company’s new Steve Jobs Theater featured strong sports components throughout the presentation. Here are SportTechie’s top three takeaways: 1. Apple Watch While baseball’s Boston Red Sox inadvertently introduced the sports world to one illicit feature of the Apple Watch — sign stealing — the tech giant unveiled the Apple […]
Mizuno, a leading Japanese sporting goods supplier, recently unveiled a smart baseball embedded with built-in sensors to provide velocity, spin rate and rotation axis of pitches that will be available for purchase in 2018. TrackMan, Rapsodo and Pitch F/X have provided such information with external solutions such as radars and optical tracking cameras — just […]
