This post is the ninth installment of our #SportsInSTEM Series, which explores, demonstrates, and illuminates how sport serves as a vehicle to train and enlighten students of all ages in pursuing interests and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. If you or someone you know is using sports to help with STEM education, then please […]
This little tidbit is most likely unknown to all but the most hardcore sports fan: more than 650 Duracell Quantum batteries are used in a single NFL game. See that headset Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll is wearing or the helmet Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson wears? Yup, those are powered with Duracell batteries. Duracell […]
“Manual, inefficient, archaic, and expensive.” These are the words that Kevin Anderson, Co-Founder of Appetize, tells SportTechie correspond to the ordering process of food housed in sporting arenas. If these terms don’t properly denote the current in-venue experience for this transaction, then its summation could be left as the following: “necessary evil.” Anderson affirms that the […]
Concussions are the issue of the times for football players; and in an effort to improve player protection, Riddell and the Translational Genomics Research Institute are teaming up with the Arizona State University Sun Devil football program for a second year in genetic research designed to advance research in detection and treatment. “Player protection has […]
As all sports technology startups try to become mainstream, one of the several, underlying prevalent issues remain constant: education of a respective company’s benefits from its technology to the consumer level. Be it derived from the tech sector over sports or vice versa notwithstanding, common ground needs to transpire in order to reach desired […]
