One of the most watched spectacles in the Australian sporting calendar is the State of Origin, a best-of-three rugby league series pitting players who began their careers in New South Wales and Queensland against each other. Late in the second game, Queensland’s Johnathan Thurston — who had remained on the pitch despite a season-ending shoulder […]
NASCAR drivers are often on the defense about whether they’re athletes. Despite zipping around the track for hours on end in scorching heat, they’re often battling stigmas that they aren’t as athletic as, say, marathon runners or football players. Newly released biometric data from NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray, however, seeks to put an end to […]
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 — […]
Celliant, a product of Los Angeles-based tech company Hologenix that aims to effectively capture and utilize human body heat in order to produce noticeable health benefits, recently received a classification from the FDA that could help the company expand its reach. Celliant, owned by Hologenix, LLC, began producing its now-patented, thermo-reactive mineral-based responsive textile technology in […]
TomTom is distancing itself from the sports wearable market that is dominated by competitors such as Apple, Fitbit and Garmin, citing weaker-than-expected sales. In the company’s most recent quarterly earnings report, TomTom, which makes the Spark3 smartwatch and Touch fitness tracker, reported a 20 percent year-over-year decline in consumer revenue, citing a decline in demand […]
