The NFL and Football Research, Inc. have partnered with Duke researchers in order to find solutions for new helmets and other protective equipment to improve player safety. The international program, HeadHealthTECH Challenges, is aimed to look the relationship between how a helmet performs and the properties of the pads in that helmet which produce that […]
The Champion Duke Blue Devils might have gone into March Madness with one of the best starting five in the game and one of the greatest coaches of all time, but their success can also be attributed to some useful technology. STATS’s SportsVU is a system of six cameras and STATS proprietary software which calibrates […]
Welcome to the world of functional apparel. What is functional apparel? The Chief Executive Officer of AlignMed, Bill Schultz, defined it in an interview with SportTechie as “being able to validate a clinical effect on the user, which is much different than performance apparel like Nike or Under Armor, where they use sophisticated fabrics for […]
