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MLB Approves Wearable Device WHOOP For In-Game Use

Last week, MLB notified teams that players can wear WHOOP during games starting with the 2017 season, making it the first wearable device of its kind approved for in-game use for MLB players. WHOOP and the MLB recently conducted the largest ever performance study in U.S. professional sports, so the technology announcement is a continuation of […]

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Elevety Introduces Helmet Audio Technologies For Outdoor And Action Sports, Football

Elevety hopes to revolutionize the way outdoor sports athletes listen to music and communicate with each other. The Toronto-based company officially debuted its Domio mounted helmet speaker and Hearshot wireless waterproof communication system at the Snowsports Industries of America Snow Show last month. The Domio wireless speaker, which can attach to any helmet, allows the user to […]

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Joule Transforms Earrings Into Fitness-Tracking Wearables

Ontario, Canada-based BioSensive Technologies Inc. is set to begin shipping Joule, its new earring back fitness wearable. The bite-sized wearable allows women, or anyone wearing earrings, to capture and store their fitness data without the hassle of wearing a wrist-based fitness tracker. And the company website boasts that Joule is the world’s “smallest” and “lightest” fitness tracker. […]

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