Reviews of products used by athletes, coaches and sports scientists
The iPhone camera can do more than taking pictures and videos. With its powerful processor and vision algorithms, it can track and measure the performance of sprinting, soccer dribbling, shooting and basketball shots. Here’s a look at four apps that do just that. … Read More Tracking Kicks, Shots And Sprints With Your iPhone
This is a post about some big changes ahead for Sports Technology Blog and a bit of reminiscing about the past. Starting out as a platform for sharing sports engineering research, it has slowly stepped into the commercial space and now it is becoming the trusted source of info for all emerging sports and health tech products. #watchthisspace
Tracking how fast a ball was kicked or thrown used to be done with an external device – it could be a speed radar or a high speed camera or maybe even a very trained (and experienced) eye. However, in the last 5-6 years, more and more engineers and scientists have tried to put some form… Read More A Look At Smart Balls
Creating wearable technologies for swimming has always had its challenges; from making the device water resistant to ensuring that sensor measurements are reliable. Instabeat is a company that has risen up to that challenge by creating a headsup goggle display that measures a swimmer’s heartrate. … Read More Swimming With The Times
