Imagine being dragged by a 28-propeller drone 1,000 feet in the sky, then letting go on purpose to plummet toward Earth. A Latvian drone company that introduced the world to a phenomenon known as “droneboarding” in January is back at it again with another mind-bending feat: completing the first-ever human BASE jump at a high […]
Fans of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague will now be able to witness what it’s like from a referee’s point-of-view during this upcoming weekend’s Final Four in Istanbul. In a partnership with Spain-based FirstVision — a provider of body camera technology for athletes and referees — one EuroLeague referee during each game will wear a new FirstVision […]
What’s the mindset like of venture capital firms, who have hundreds of million of dollars in investment money, when they examine startups and early-stage technology companies? How do they analyze young founders and CEOs with fresh ideas looking to deploy capital to take their business to the next level? SportTechie recently asked investors at three […]
In what is claimed to be a world’s first, a blind athlete, Oscar Widegren, has ran unassisted thanks to an experiment using only sound. The sound technology underpinning this experiment is called hyper directional sound and was delivered by two speakers, which were placed over 160 feet away from Widegren’s starting position. In effect, the […]
During this weekend’s THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the PGA TOUR is ditching the traditional pen and paper along with photography for more tech-centric art and drawings. A foursome of artists is utilizing iPad Pros and Apple Pencils to sketch players themselves, the grounds, spectators and highlight-reel shots including Sergio Garcia’s ace on the […]
