Building on the momentum of its Thursday Night Football NFL package this Fall, Amazon Prime announced a new foray into the sports world with plans for an exclusive-access documentary series of the Michigan football season. The behind-the-scenes look at the storied Ann Arbor program will be co-produced by the Big Ten Network and will be […]
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 […]
When carbon fiber rackets reached the tennis world in the early 1990s, they were lightweight and stiff — good for performance but poor for shock absorption, leading to an uptick in arm injuries. At the time, a New York area tennis pro with a background in architecture and engineering, Brett Bothwell, began brainstorming solutions. The […]
Zebra Technologies and Wilson Sporting Goods announced Thursday that every NFL game football this season would have an embedded RFID tag to track location, speed and rotation metrics. Though some data points will be exclusive to teams, other statistics will be included in television broadcasts and potentially tabulated in NFL.com leaderboards. This technology debuted at […]
