Thanks to the work of British Columbia’s viaSport and Microsoft Canada, people with disabilities will have better online resources to participate in sports, according to a viaSport statement. ViaSport, which is partially supported by the government of British Columbia, is a non-profit that promotes amateur sports within the province — a result of the 2010 […]
“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction” is perhaps the most basic law of physics. But one is channeling those reactions to improve athletic performance with the slip of an insole into a shoe. VKTRY Performance Insoles produces a line of shoe inserts that harness and return the energy produced by pushing against the […]
Action sports-focused startup Unit 1 is set to introduce its first offering, Soundshield, a helmet and detachable headphone pairing that the company hopes can elevate the users’ music listening experience from the slopes to the skate park. Soundshield comes in two basic parts — the helmet and the headphones. The headphones lock in underneath the […]
Nike is repurposing the Flyknit material it uses for sneakers into a sports bra — and it’s using a very technical process involving heat maps and digital body scans to do it. Nike engineers and designers have put in more than 600 hours of biometric testing to determine how best to knit together materials for […]
Each year at Wimbledon, tennis’s most iconic tournament, roughly 55,000 balls are used. Once the tournament wraps up and Roger Federer and Serena Williams have taken their cuts, what happens to the balls? The majority are sold to fans as keepsakes. Some are turned into speakers. You read correctly, hearO is a new Bluetooth speaker […]
