Grant Hughes is co-founder and COO of Los Angeles-based FocusMotion, a wearables-first motion technology and application company dedicated to improving health through movement, gesture, fitness monitoring and quantification. As an MBA student at the University of Michigan, Hughes and co-founder Cavan Canavan won the Pryor-Hale Award for Best Business in the Michigan Business Challenge. […]
With wearables becoming extremely popular for sports enthusiasts, we are beginning to see companies hone in on niche markets and provide products very specific to different sports. Well-known French tennis brand, Babolat, has teamed up with Swiss based software company PIQ to generate a wearable specific to tennis. The Babolat POP is a device compatible […]
There’s a new product in the world of MMA and boxing that will make it easier for fighters to learn how well they pack a punch. EFD Sports has developed a new kind of innovative sensor capable of providing much more than padding. Wes Elliott, founder and CEO of EFD Sports, originally conceived the idea […]
This morning, Speedo and Misfit, a company that produces wearables and other smart gear, announced their partnering on a new swim tracker—Speedo Shine. While the wearable, which fits like a wristwatch, is generally useful for all fitness, it is specially designed for swimming. The software within the Speedo Shine uses unique algorithms to count the […]
Wearables have come a long way since the Casio Databank watch debuted in the 1980s. These days, our wearables remind us to get moving, let us pay for purchases without a wallet, and help us stay in touch through emails, texts, and calls – is it any surprise that the tennis industry is also bursting […]
