A couple of Olympic hopeful table tennis players in Japan are teaming up with Cisco’s Japanese business. Kasumi Ishikawa and Tomokazu Harimoto will benefit from Cisco’s latest technology in the company’s effort to delve further into the Japanese sports industry, and table tennis particularly. Cisco will provide Ishikawa and Harimoto with Spark collaborative technology that aims […]
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is teaming up with Tellyo, a social video production, editing and sharing platform, to increase its social media presence with short-form content. Tellyo will not only support the creation and sharing of video content on ITTF’s official social media channels, but also stream parts of ITTF matches live on […]
Table Tennis, or ping-pong. No matter how the game is referenced or how seriously it is taken, there is now a robot designed to help players improve their skills. The Kyoto, Japan-based corporation, Omron, first debuted their table tennis robot in 2013. Last week, Omron announced FORPHEUS has officially been named the world’s “First Robot Table Tennis Tutor,” […]
The game of table tennis is about to get an extreme makeover: technology edition. Thomas Mayer, a student from the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany has developed the future of table tennis. As part of Mayer’s bachelor thesis project in Interaction Design, he designed the Table Tennis Trainer, an interactive ping pong table which creates […]
Anyone who has ever played a game of ping-pong knows that on the surface the sport itself is very simple. In fact, it is so simple that many people picture it like this: To fully understand how much table tennis has evolved over the years however, one must look at the impact of technology, which […]
