In downtown Chicago on Wednesday, the NFL Players Association and SportTechie brought together pro athletes and industry experts. The goal was to discuss how technology can be leveraged to improve...
SportTechie’s Athletes Voice series features the views and opinions of the athletes who use and are powered by technology. SportTechie talked to pro football player-turned-investor Marques Colston about his transition...
We track athletes. We connect athletes. We quantify athletes. But not all athlete-tracking data is equal. From wearables to cameras, there’s an endless array of information being generated: internal versus...
NEW YORK — After the New Orleans Saints became the first NFL team to use Zebra Technology’s radio-based tracking system during practices, the players became “very aware that they’re being tracked,” said former wide receiver Marques Colston. “We all knew we had an RFID tag in our shoulder pads,” he said on a panel during […]
With crowdfunding raising over $2.5 billion in capital across Europe in 2014, its wide appeal and use among fledgling technology companies to raise more capital seemed well founded going into 2015. However, for Precision Sports Technologies, the creator of Precision Wear, a wearable monitoring system for individual athletes and teams, the decision to launch a Kickstarter […]
