Major League Baseball and the Players Association publicly released on Friday the latest collective bargaining agreement, which includes provisions banning the use of data garnered by wearable technology for commercial use or for admission in salary arbitration. Baseball permitted two wearable devices for in-game use last year — the Motus elbow sleeve and Zephyr Bioharness — […]
Every public high school football player in Omaha will wear an impact-tracking Riddell helmet this fall, thanks to a donation from a Buffett family charity. The gift to the city seven high schools included more than 900 Riddell Speedflex helmets equipped with its InSite Impact Response System — the same technology the University of Texas […]
Monday afternoon’s intracity interleague rivalry meeting between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs will be broadcast on Facebook Live, as part of a Cubs partnership with with ABC 7 Chicago and Facebook Live. For fans in the team’s home television territory, the game is available on the Chicago Cubs and ABC 7 Chicago Facebook […]
The Panasonic Evolta Neo-kun Robot — powered by only two Panasonic EVOLTA NEO batteries — completed a 1,000-meter climb to the peak of a Norwegian cliff earlier this month. This challenge was done to test the efficacy of the new EVOLTA dry cell batteries, which were introduced to the Japanese market in April. The climb […]
The electric-car Formula E series arrived in Brooklyn last weekend for a pair of races in the New York City ePrix, where the circuit’s commitment to green technology extended to the pits where the teams had an autonomous helper ferrying supplies. DHL, a major sponsor and the official logistics partner of Formula E, has provided […]
