On Nov. 5, tens of thousands of runners will line up on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, the starting point of the world’s largest marathon. Among them will be able-bodied runners, runners with prosthetic legs or other limbs, wheelchair racers, and a blind man wearing a vibrating device that will help him navigate […]
Sunday was a special day for the Seattle Seahawks and their fans. Not only because they took down the Indianapolis Colts, but also because they retired the number of legendary safety, Kenny Easley. To commemorate the event, the Seahawks looked to have a custom Snapchat filter created. Specific to CenturyLink Field, the filter gives attending […]
2nd Skull, a company that creates protective skull caps for tough contact sports such as football and rugby, has received $100,000 in funding from the NFL as part of HeadHealthTECH Challenge II, it was announced Wednesday. The competition, conducted by the NFL and Football Research Institute and managed by Duke University’s Clinical and Translational Science […]
You can’t talk about football without recognizing the dangers of CTE. Luckily the game is getting safer thanks to an influx of safety-related tech hitting the market. Texas football (along with other schools) has adopted SyncThink’s eye-tracking VR device while HitIQ designed a mouthguard with head-impact detecting motion sensors. Thanks to a BYU mechanical engineering […]
For Nike, leather is a material that is featured in many footwear styles. However, leather also has the second-highest environmental impact on Nike’s carbon emissions and water usage. Because of that, Nike has come up with a solution: Nike Flyleather. Nike Flyleather is made with the 30 percent of a cow’s hide that is discarded […]
