A few months ago we published an article about Babolat PLAY, the first tennis racket that gathers data and tracks player progress. Since then, this tennis racket is already providing valuable data to Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest tennis players of all time. “In “Toni’s Good Tips”, Nadal’s coach Toni Nadal uses this data to find useful insights […]
In the film Being John Malkovich, John Cusack plays a puppeteer who discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star John Malkovich. Replace Cusack with a couple of neuroscientists and Malkovich with professional baseball players, and what you basically have is the idea behind deCervo, a New York-based startup. Jordan […]
In a continuing effort to phase the National Hockey League (NHL) into an analytic future, the NHL and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service have created the Match-Up Analysis with Insights from SAP. The Match-Up Analysis tool was created to help fans compete in the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Bracket Challenge. In our recent interviews with […]
This is a guest post by Ciaran Connell, CEO, DecaWave, an Irish fabless semiconductor company which develops ICs for indoor location and communication based on its UWB wireless technology platform. Sports training has evolved quite a bit since backyard pick-up games. Today’s professional and college teams use a wide variety of technology to track exactly […]
Neil recently chatted with Dr. Jim Kovach, Vice President of Business Development for CrowdOptic, whose technology solution allows for live streaming video from wearable devices. Kovach talked about the origins of the technology, how it has been (and can be) leveraged by sports teams and media entities, and an intriguing role it could play in […]
