It was a Saturday in Houston, and a small girl with a robotic hand was walking onto the field to throw a pitch in front of thousands of cheering fans packed into Minute Maid Park. Hailey Dawson, a 7-year-old girl born who was born with a rare disease called Poland Syndrome that causes birth defects […]
On Nov. 5, tens of thousands of runners will line up on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, the starting point of the world’s largest marathon. Among them will be able-bodied runners, runners with prosthetic legs or other limbs, wheelchair racers, and a blind man wearing a vibrating device that will help him navigate […]
With the hope of reaching relay improvement at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Canadian swim team has announced a partnership with TritonWear, a Toronto-based sports technology company. The use of TritonWear’s technology beginning next month will allow coaches and athletes to have access to information that has historically been unavailable, allowing the team to […]
As the NBA and National Basketball Players Association work to find common ground related to whether players can use wearables during games and what the league can do with the data collected from them, an NBA tech executive is envisioning how those devices might be used further into the future. The long-term goal is to […]
After outfitting its technology for a professional soccer team in Germany, PlaySight is expanding its suite of autonomous scouting and coaching tools across the soccer industry. At the Soccerex Global Convention last month, PlaySight co-founder and CEO Chen Shachar pitched the company’s newest cloud-based video technology, SmartField, to European football clubs as a way to […]
