This spring, football players vying in an instructional league for a shot at the NFL will be wearing a high-tech helmet designed to protect their heads from the hard hits they’ll inevitably encounter on their hopeful path to the pros. That’s due to an exclusive partnership the helmet’s maker, VICIS, signed with The Spring League. […]
NEW YORK — In Olympic years, the training never seems to cease, making a heart-rate monitor a constant companion for women’s hockey star Hilary Knight. “I almost feel like it’s glued to my body, essentially, at this point with all the training on and off ice,” she said. Knight, 28, a two-time Olympic silver medalist […]
At the NHL’s most recent ownership meetings, commissioner Gary Bettman revealed plans for a league-wide player and puck tracking system that, importantly, will be non-invasive and not require skaters to wear any transmitting chips as they did during a trial at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Bettman acknowledged that more research and development work […]
Karen Chupka describes the fast-approaching shifts in technology that is used globally and in everyday life as both revolutionary and world-changing. As overwhelming as that may sound – at least on its surface – how consumer technology executives and strategists choose to navigate the coming changes in today’s tech-driven society becomes increasingly vital. But as […]
NEW YORK — After school, the kids formed a single-file line and waited their turn to wear the virtual reality headset. What they proceeded to see blew their minds. Just moments earlier, elementary school students at Corpus Christi School had run through relay races and jumping jacks designed to get their heart rate going. Now […]
