The Minnesota Twins have joined the defending World Series champion Houston Astros as official users of Blast Motion. Blast Motion CEO Michael Fitzpatrick has said “well over 50 percent of the teams” use his company’s bat sensor technology (the league’s official bat sensor provider), but only the Astros and Twins have been publicly acknowledged. The sensors […]
Shortly after the Portland Trail Blazers step off the court following practice or a game, they’re whisked into a “brain room,” where they watch DVDs with devices strapped to their heads that read the electrical activity in their brains. It’s a scene that might seem peeled from a 1980’s sci-fi movie. This season, the Trail […]
New Jersey is set to become the first state to use instant replay for regular season high school football. After receiving the consent of the National Federation of High Schools, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association approved a voluntary replay system last month for schools using Hudl Sideline, a tech platform that syncs live […]
When the Golden State Warriors’ head of sports medicine, Chelsea Lane, first approached assistant general manager Kirk Lacob in the front office with a new device last summer, she explained that Eye-Sync would help the team quickly and objectively assess whether a player might be suffering from concussion symptoms. The Warriors had endured a few […]
Fitbit is aiming to expand its healthcare initiative by building the world’s largest database of women’s health through a new ecosystem of smartwatch apps that track women’s menstrual cycles and compare that data to exercise and sleep patterns. In a presentation announcing the new female health tracking initiative, which will be available on the Fitbit […]
