Have you ever thought about what sports might look like in the future?
It’s an interesting thing to ponder how humans and robotics have the potential to merge and change sports forever. Imagine a 200 mile per hour tennis serve, light-cycle racing, or (for you Harry Potter fans) real quidditch.
Now imagine the infrastructure that would be needed to support these futuristic sports. What would stadiums look like? Could the field change locations? What would playing surfaces even look like?
A company called ASB can answer that last question. ASB has created GlassFloor, the future of sports surfaces now. It’s all rather Tron-like.
Stanford is one of the Cinderella teams from this year’s tournament. This post originally appeared on CE.org. Before the NCAA Tournament gets back underway today, let’s take this opportunity to look at some of the effects technology is having on both the sports we watch and how we watch them. While (hopefully) a good number of brackets are still giving fans hope, it only took until the second day of the tournament for all entries in Warren Buffet’s ‘Billion Dollar Bracket’ challenge to be eliminated. Mercer’s first round upset of Duke ruined all but .03 percent of the entries, according to CBSSports.com. While entrants in the challenge are probably wishing that technology could have helped them pick the perfect bracket to...
Selection Sunday didn’t bring too many surprises. Southern Methodist University and University of Wisconsin – Green Bay have been left on the outside looking in. The two most dangerous four-seeded schools stand as Michigan State University and the University of Louisville. And the University of Florida reigns as the unquestioned top number one seed. Similarly, […]
Oklahoma State might have one of the most exciting offenses in college football and one of the best players in all of college basketball, but the school is making news off the court as they move forward with their digital media strategy and the engagement of their expansive fan base. As the Cowboys travel to Kansas City this week for the Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, much of the focus will be on Oklahoma State’s quest for a tournament championship. After all, they just beat top-seeded Kansas last week. But off the court, Oklahoma State Athletics has a new focus: digital strategy and fan engagement. They’ve recently selected Kansas City-based Sporting Innovations to help define the strategic...
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The “Moneyball” revolution has glamorized the introduction of statistical analysis in Major League Baseball, but until recently this analysis has been remarkably under publicized in the NBA and basketball leagues worldwide.
Those days of having to look long and hard for the information are long gone now.
