When deciding one’s mode of transportation, there are often two overall options that come into play. There are the traditional natural modes of transportation such as walking or biking, and then there are the mass transit motorized options such as a metro, car and bus. But one interesting new Kickstarter product is hoping to blend the two […]
Nicknamed “The Lightning Bolt,” Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt, with a record speed of 44-km/hour (27.7 mph) in the Olympic 100 meter, may have met his match and it is not rival sprinter Justin Gatlin. Meet the BeatBot. Puma has teamed up with a group of NASA robotics engineers, MIT graduates and J. Walter Thompson’s (JWT) […]
By: Garrick Barr, CEO and Co-Founder Synergy Sports Technology Sports excite people as a triumph of human effort. Behind the scenes there are a number of things that go into that triumph, and at the top is technology. The sports world today is getting tech savvy by combining natural, athletic talent with advanced analytics and […]
The 2013 season changed Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins as a hitter, and not because Mauer altered his approach at the plate, or because he signed a new contract, or anything along those lines. Rather, Mauer suffered a concussion in the latter part of his 2013 campaign that markedly hampered his hitting ability during […]
Hawk-Eye is probably best known for supplying the goal-line technology for the FIFA World Cup in 2014, but the sports technology company is responsible for much more across the wide spectrum of sports. Ranging from ball tracking to broadcasting graphics among more than 20 different sports, Hawk-Eye has their hands in about every sector of the […]
