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Now that most of us take to social media to rant about our favorite sports teams, it was only a matter of time before our ramblings are collated and packaged as “trends” for the talking heads on television. SportStream, a company that specializes in collecting such data, has recently partnered with Facebook to deliver exactly that. Utilizing the social network’s Keyword Insights and Public Feed APIs, SportStream came up with a new analytics tool that content producers and broadcasters can use to find out what’s hot in the world of sports along with relevant audience info like location, gender and age. This way, interested parties can seek answers to questions such as “Whose fans are talking more about Game 2 of the World Series?” or “Are males under 30 interested in the Winter Olympics?” and that data will be presented in colorful charts as in the above graphic. While we’re not sure if this data has any real value to TV audiences, you could at least use it to impress your buddies… if they’re stats nerds anyway.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: SportStream

It’s not just major broadcasters who are willing to take their fight against Aereo to the Supreme Court. The MLB and the NFL have jointly filed an amicus brief supporting the existing court case, arguing that the streaming TV service jeopardizes their licensing deals. Aereo’s ability to offer sports programming at no extra cost undermines the point of exclusive (and very lucrative) broadcasting arrangements, according to the brief. The leagues are prepared to back up their words with deeds — they claim that they’ll have to move their games to cable and satellite channels if Aereo wins. There’s no guarantee that the Supreme Court will sympathize with this supposed plight, but it’s clearer than ever that Aereo faces stiff opposition from the broadcasting industry’s status quo.

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Infomotion Sports Technologies was on hand at CES Unveiled here in NYC this week and they wowed me with their 94Fifty Smart Sensor Basketball. It’s a pretty regular-looking regulation size and weight basketball, that can measure and diagnose your skills, helping you up your game, just like a tiny coach you can carry around in your pocket. Yup, a basketball coach for your iPhone – there’s an app for that! 

This nifty, unassuming ball utilizes nine sensors located inside it, enabling it to deliver real-time shooting and ball-handling feedback including shot speed, backspin and arc measurements, and it sends all that useful info directly to your iPhone or iPod touch. The 94Fifty includes a companion app, that allows you to choose specific skills to work on, opt to compete with other players around the world via Twitter, or simply work through levels of increasingly difficult workouts.

Imagine a ball that can precisely measure your skill set, and then quickly utilize that data in order to “coach” you with proven, personalized methods meant to improve shooting mechanics, shot release speed, shooting arc, power dribbling, hand-speed, mental coordination, and many other skills that have been traditionally impossible to measure.

The 94Fifty App is optimized for iOS 7, gives you the ability to share your achievements with friends, family and coaches via your social media networks, and is available now for just under 300 bucks, and if you have a budding basketball star in your family, this might just be the holiday gift you’ve been looking for! Look for it today at Apple Retail Stores and online at shop.94fifty.com. The App is available for free from the App Store or visit infomotionsports.com for videos and much more information.
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We’re ramping up at an unprecedented rate this year towards total quantification of movement – especially sports and exercise-related movement – with devices like the Zepp Sensor. This device works inside a whole Zepp training system which aims to connect your movements – all of them – to mobile apps. You’ll find the teams at […]

Your doctor would most probably recommend that you get enough exercise each day in addition to eating a healthy diet and having an adequate amount of rest if you were to live a long and healthy life, at least for the majority of folks out there. The thing is, going to a gym might prove to be a whole lot more challenging for some than for others, so why not bring the gym to you? This is an interesting paradigm shift to consider, but it sure as heck is going to cost you a rather hefty amount of money – which is the equivalent of a few years’ worth of a gym membership for some. Enter the $9,000 Climbing Wall Treadmill, where the name of this particular device says it all.

The Climbing Wall Treadmill will be a climbing wall that comes with a continuously revolving face which would then enable virtually endless vertical climbs, as long as your stamina and endurance holds out. The face of the wall would comprise of hand- and foot-holds on individual panels which will revolve in the manner of an upright treadmill. This enables climbers to scale to the height of Mt. Everest – all in the comfort of their very own home, now how about that? It will be motorless, which translates to a whole lot less maintenance, not to mention being powered solely by the climber’s weight. The wall itself can adjust from -20° to +5° from vertical, simulating overhangs or slab climbing, while the holds are able to be repositioned to a quartet of different locations on each panel for a fully customizable whole-body workout experience.
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