The two sports might only seem loosely connected: race cars thundering around an asphalt track and sleds speeding down the winding arm of an ice track. But at The Dow Chemical Company, engineers are borrowing from techniques they’ve longed used for NASCAR to make the USA Luge Team quicker at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. A partner […]
While our cellular data today operates mostly on 4G LTE, Korea Telecom Corporation is working with Intel to create what could be the next generation of telecommunications — and after a successful connection, it appears 5G will make its debut at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in February. KT Corporation announced last month that it […]
An Olympic Games occurs only once every two years, so how do ardent fans of Team USA and the Games in general fill that downtime? NBCUniversal wanted to know. So in July, the broadcast giant launched the Olympic Channel across more than 35 million homes in the United States. The new channel, born of a […]
Visa is introducing payment-connected winter gloves and two other wearables that will enable cashless payments at the upcoming Olympic Games in PyeongChang. The company unveiled Wednesday its plans to offer Olympics attendees smart gloves that contain a dual interface chip with an antenna that will enable contactless payments throughout the venue, where Visa has installed […]
Millions of South Korean television viewers watching the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics can access quite an interactive audio experience. Fraunhofer has developed MPEG-H is a TV audio system that can be personalized in never-before-seen ways to fit a consumer’s needs. SBS, the largest commercial broadcaster in South Korea, will provide immersive and interactive sound with its […]
