The Rio Olympics is just around the corner. Although everyone is always telling the organizers, we might turn our attention to the technology products that athletes favor. Perhaps the outstanding performance of a team will benefit from the wearables introduced today. What about equipment?
VERT: I want to jump higher!VERT is a wearable device for American women's volleyball training. It is only necessary to tie it to the waist to perform real-time monitoring of the athlete's jump, such as height and frequency, which will be transmitted to the mobile terminal in real time. Understand the athlete's training.
The data can show in real time whether the athlete's training volume reaches a specified intensity and saves energy for other training. For some old injured athletes, this device did a great job for them.
Not just volleyball, the NBA Miami Heat is also said to use the same equipment for training.
Tune, launched by the Portuguese company Kinematix, is an insole with a sensor. As shown in the figure, the user needs to connect the sensor with the insole and clamp it on the shoe. Through Bluetooth transmission, the user can obtain the symmetry of the left and right feet at each landing in real time on the mobile phone, even the contact time between each part of the foot and the ground. In addition, in the analysis report obtained by the system, Tune can also provide suggestions for users and propose corresponding training plans.
This wearable device is also used by many athletes, such as the 2008 Olympic triathlon silver medalist Vanessa Fernandes and the American long distance runner Ryan Vail.
Notch: Body tracking depends on it
This body tracker can be said to be a good helper for athletes. The inertial measurement unit IMU can realize body shape tracking. Three single-axis accelerometers and gyros have no amount of acceleration and angular velocity, and the posture of the object is calculated.
In addition to identifying movements, this belt or wristband-mounted wearable device can add specific motion patterns and provide vibration feedback.
Marlin: Real-time coaching for water sports
Land sports users can easily use a variety of wearable equipment to assist training, then swimming and other water sports? The Platysens team's Marlin headphones are for swimmers.
Sweeping frequency, swimming time, round trip frequency and time are all recorded, and the built-in GPS device can also provide vocal navigation during swimming. With the GPS function enabled, it can last for 5 hours.
Technology can make our lives better and sports the same. Seeing that these high technologies can help athletes train, isn't it a little emotional?