One of elite sport’s most prolific technologies hails from the Finnish Lakeland and a pair of research studies into the autonomic nervous system and mathematical modeling of heart-rate variability at the University of Jyväskylä and that city’s Research Institute for Olympic Sports. That work led to the creation of Firstbeat in 2002 and now, a […]
Catapult is continuing to bring its wearable data to live sports broadcasts with the tech company’s latest partnership with Cricket Australia on a nine-match agreement. The statistics gleaned from Catapult’s GPS devices will be presented in the sponsored Gatorade Tracker during Channel Nine coverage that began with the recently completed fifth test of the Ashes […]
San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch has his image and signature on a DNA test offered by Orig3n that claims to reveal whether your genes have the raw potential and qualities that the former NFL All-Pro looks for in players. Orig3n, which has previously partnered with NFL teams including the 49ers, launched the John Lynch […]
The oft-told standard in baseball is that a 90-mile-per-hour fastball takes four-tenths of a second to reach home plate and, because the act of swinging a bat takes about half the time, a hitter must identify the pitch, its expected location and decide what to do in about 0.2 seconds. Those numbers seem small and […]
Brooks Running Company announced a partnership with HP and Superfeet that will result in an individualized performance running shoe — one that’s based on and responds to the runner’s unique biomechanics. The shoe will be available in June 2018, with each runner’s biomechanics captured via FitStation by HP. The first of their kind, the announcement […]
