You’re playing a first-person shooter game, moving throughout the virtual world and killing off opponents one by one. Suddenly, a missile comes flying in your direction, and you have to run straight to a safe zone — just barely making it before you get blown up. That may have only been practice, but it also […]
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 […]
Baltimore Ravens fans are about to find out if they do, in fact, bleed purple and black. On Sunday, when the Ravens open their 2017 home slate at M&T Bank Stadium, more than 55,000 fans — over three quarters of the stadium’s 71,000+ capacity — can get their DNA tested for free by Orig3n, the […]
This week’s guest on the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein is Dr. Phil Wagner, CEO of Sparta Science. Dr. Wagner and Bram discuss measuring athlete performance and potential with biometric data, wearables and data privacy and ownership issues, and injury prevention. You can also subscribe to the SportTechie podcast by visiting, TuneIn, iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher. Contact us if […]
The star linebacker for the Carolina Panthers, Luke Kuechly, missed the last five games of the 2016 NFL season after he suffered a concussion. So this season, he’s trying on something new: the Q-Collar, an experimental product developed by Q30 Innovations that has been studied and shown to decrease the risk of brain injury, according to […]
