(Jamie Squire/Getty Images North America) Our 2013 NFL Tech Series provides a quick hit of tech insight on all 32 NFL teams up until kickoff of Week 1 of the regular season. Each feature includes the latest tech advances implemented by the organization in the effort to advance the team’s success… in a wide variety of venues. Stadium experience, fan engagement, mobile technologies, player performance and health, statistical data gathering and analysis… any and all aspects of the organization’s procedures in the effort to find success in the NFL is on the table. We’re uncovering those efforts, investigating those innovations and pondering the benefit they might provide, for the team, players and fans alike… today and looking forward. Today’s focus...
As it turns out, space may not be the final frontier after all. Within the Silicone Valley in Mountain View, California, the NASA Ames Research Park is currently exploring a new field—sports rehabilitation. Researchers at the facility have pioneered a new fitness technology—known as the Vasper System—designed to simultaneously maximize muscle function while minimizing workout […]
Baltimore Orioles Centerfielder Adam Jones has donated $75,000 to the Baltimore Oriole Charitable Foundation (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images North America)
Under owner Peter Angelos, the MLB’s Baltimore Orioles have donated $10 million to support various organizations in the Baltimore community. The Brooklyn O’Malley Boys & Girls Club is one of the latest recipients of their caring heart. The club’s facility will be home to a newly renovated Learning & Technology Center to serve at-risk children and underrepresented members of the community. Along with Oriole Centerfielder Adam Jones, the Baltimore Oriole Charitable Foundation donated $75,000 to expand the center that will include educational support, computer skill development and career enrichment, college preparatory and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs.
(Donald Miralle/Getty Images North America) Our 2013 NFL Tech Series provides a quick hit of tech insight on all 32 NFL teams up until kickoff of Week 1 of the regular season. Each feature includes the latest tech advances implemented by the organization in the effort to advance the team’s success… in a wide variety of venues. Stadium experience, fan engagement, mobile technologies, player performance and health, statistical data gathering and analysis… any and all aspects of the organization’s procedures in the effort to find success in the NFL is on the table. We’re uncovering those efforts, investigating those innovations and pondering the benefit they might provide, for the team, players and fans alike… today and looking forward. Today’s focus...
Five years from now connected devices working in concert with one another will be an invariable reality.
While something like Google Glass still seems like a futuristic apparatus, the aforementioned statement reflects the projection made by Brian Dunphy, Qualcomm’s Senior Director of Business Development, at Variety’s Sports Entertainment Summit’s opening panel entitled “Fireside Chat with Qualcomm and MLB Advanced Media.”
