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Sports such as running and cycling have been well supplied for several years with monitoring and tracking devices to record and improve performance. At this year's CES, several other sports have become connected, including tennis with the Babolat Play racket and here basketball with the ShotTracker. Jamie and Todd chat to Davyeon Ross, Co-Founder of ShotTracker. ShotTracker is made of 3
To improve at any skill or game, it's often practice, practice, practice but today's technology can help point out the areas to work on. Babolat's rackets are world famous and used by some of the top tennis professionals and for tennis fans, Babolat have developed a connected tennis racket based on their AeroPro Drive to help them hone their game. Eva shows
With the advances in drone technology, it's easy to fly most drones these days. To fly a drone well and record video at the same time still takes a great deal of skill. It's especially difficult if you are the pilot, cinematographer and star all at the same time. If this is your problem, then the AirDog is the solution.
With concussion now an increasing concern in many sports, Todd talks to David from BlackBox Biometrics about the Linx IAS, which provides real-time feedback on concussive impacts. The Linx IAS is small device, not too dissimilar to a thin USB memory stick, that athletes wear in a headband or skull cap to monitor the concussive forces on the head. The
Canadian outfit Hexoskin has been in the wearables market longer than most, starting out in 2006 and now has a range of smart shirts with a built-in body metric system to measure heart rate, breathing, activity and sleeping using sensors woven into the fabric of the shirt. Hexoskin, with the support of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, created sensors
Over the past year, I've noticed more and more people wearing activity tracking devices and here in Northern Ireland I tend to see Fitbits rather than anything else. Fitbit has been advertising on TV lately too with "It's All Fit" and I'm sure that there will be a good number of Zips, Flexes and Charges under the Christmas tree come
Garmin are well known for their satnavs and GPS-based devices but a new range of wearable action cameras were announced at this year's CES. Todd chats to Maddy about the new cams. Garmin's VIRB range of action cameras are 1080p HD video cameras in a ruggedised and waterproof (IPX7) case, with a built-in 1.4" display and around 3 hours of recording