Today IBM announced a new Sports and Entertainment Consortium created to help design, build and deliver the ultimate fan experience. In addition to the consortium, IBM announced the Sports, Entertainment and Fan Experience consulting practice, which will be lead by Jim Rushton, former Chief Revenue Officer of the Miami Dolphins and SunLife Stadium. According to […]
This is a guest post by the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies from their Beyond 339 Blog. It’s no secret that analytics are everywhere. We can now measure everything, from exabytes of organizational “big data” to smaller, personal information like your heart rate during a run. And when this data is collected, deciphered, and used […]
Mixed Talents is a Samsung global initiative that takes experts in two different fields and sits them down for a conversation on how to solve very real problems in today’s world. Recently, Mixed Talents turned its sights towards the sports technology world. The following is an interesting discussion between industrial designer, Braden Wilson, and Google Senior Interaction Designer, […]
Scoutee is a world-first smart speed radar device that launched just over a month ago. The innovation will allow users to link the device with a smartphone and track pitching speeds, in an overall simplified manner. When the idea was launched, the goal was to reach $50,000 within a month – through a KickStarter campaign […]
Within the vast, and seemingly immense world of professional sports we live in today, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the big features and statistics that are thrown in our faces. Come Sunday morning, I can guarantee you one of the first things I will do is adjust my Fantasy lineups for the upcoming […]