Mike Rolih was just a limo driver with an idea. One day, he picked up a passenger who changed his life. An All-State quarterback from Chicago, Rolih was visiting a friend who coached junior college football in Rochester, Minn. — a town just south of the Twin Cities. He was shocked that in the age […]
Through the Georgia Blind Sports Association’s new partnership with the United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) and the Amerigroup Foundation, a group of 25 blind and visually impaired participants in Atlanta will be tracking their fitness through the use of Fitbit wearables. The health initiative is part of a nine-month program called the USABA/Amerigroup Foundation National […]
Los Angeles Chargers safety and special teams standout Darrell Stuckey isn’t just an early user of WHOOP who started wearing it in October. He has said he wore it during games a few times last season by taping over the device. The data that WHOOP provided Stuckey was on display last week at the Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH conference […]
Tokyo-based healthcare consulting firm Eagle Matrix Consulting hopes to bring the first batch of its new electrocardiogram wearable, CALM., to athletes in Japan, the U.S., and Canada by July. The CALM ECG wearable aims to let users better monitor their cardiovascular performance during everything from endurance sports to sleep. Like all ECG or EKG monitors, CALM. detects the […]
Intelligent wearables technology company TuringSense announced Thursday that it closed a $3 million pre-Series A round of funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date to $6 million. The funding will be used to expand market offerings for TuringSense’s PIVOT line of wearable sensors for high-speed motion capture and analysis for athletes. The round was led by […]
