Gift Guide: Get better at sports with smart gear
Advances in technology present sports enthusiasts with plenty of options to train better and smarter.
Advances in technology present sports enthusiasts with plenty of options to train better and smarter.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 3, 2014
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A robot developed by EPFL researchers is capable of reacting on the spot and grasping objects with complex shapes and trajectories in less than five-hundredths of a second.
Robotics
May 12, 2014
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Aluminium and graphite swept away the wooden racket that Bjorn Borg used to win 11 Grand Slam titles, but smart rackets that analyse power and spin promise a new tennis revolution.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 17, 2014
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Lleyton Hewitt won the Brisbane International last weekend at the age of 32. Roger Federer and David Ferrer, two of the world's top ten players, are over 30. And 35-year-old crowd favourite Tommy Haas still maintains a world ...
Other
Jan 9, 2014
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Hawk-Eye is a device used to reconstruct the track of the ball for LBW decisions in cricket and for line calls in tennis. It will be much in evidence during the remaining Ashes tests and is now being used for goal-line decisions ...
Engineering
Dec 27, 2013
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Consumers who buy brands to stand out may actually be trying to fit in, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2013
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Researchers from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche have used mathematical techniques and the game statistics from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to rank tennis players based on assessing their play ...
Mathematics
Jun 28, 2013
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Football's world governing body on Tuesday said that German company GoalControl will provide the goal-line technology at this year's Confederations Cup in Brazil.
Other
Apr 2, 2013
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Working with the International Tennis Federation and colleagues at the University of Exeter, the team from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering developed a test machine which applies large forces to a surface ...
Engineering
Mar 27, 2013
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The form and structure of bones change as a result of the forces to which they are subjected.
Other
Feb 1, 2013
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