What happens when an edgy athletic apparel company and a cloud-delivered, cognitive computing program spewing, artificial intelligence system intertwine minds as one? Just ask Under Armour’s founder and CEO Kevin Plank and IBM’s president, chairman, and CEO Ginni Rometty about the world’s first comprehensive health and fitness insights application. With the assistance of IBM Watson’s […]
When surveying the college athletics landscape, what’s virtually always overlooked are those schools and student-athletes outside the power conferences and non-mainstream sports. That’s a reality entrenched amidst the enigmas of the NCAA… The newfound trend of VR startups venturing into elite college programs only highlights the disparity that exists, with the overall divide, seemingly, growing […]
LAS VEGAS, NV. – ESPN and Red Bull Media House have teamed up with Intel Curie technology to provide real-time performance data for athletes. The partnership aims to help athletes utilize their stats from real-time data to play better. The media goal of this partnership is to make sports and training more relatable and entertaining […]
Wearable technology is finally hitting MLB teams with Motus Global’s launch of a single wearable system, motusBASEBALL. Both professional and nonprofessional baseball players will be able to analyze pitching and hitting with the latest system. With the popularity of wearable sensors recently, Motus Global aimed to advance their biomechanics services for MLB teams with a […]
Las Vegas, NV. – Kuaiwear, a tech company out of Shenzhen, China has created an in-ear biometric sensing technology for athletes and has launched it at CES 2016. Kuai claims these headphones are the world’s first to integrate live voice coaching from Olympic athletes. The headphones work adapting professional training plans to each individual, using an integrated heart […]
