How can wearable calculations affect movement?

Two years ago, Rami Alhamad was coaching at the weightlifting room at the University of Toronto Sports Center, he saw a group of varsity athletes lift a barbell with a string attached to a small black box fixed on the floor, and the box was connected to a computer screen, and each duplicate data was recorded for subsequent analysis. After chatting with the players and their coaches, Alhamad, who has an engineering background, thinks he can make smaller devices and do the same work with lower costs.

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His solution is to push--a wearable fitness tracker that preserves detailed statistics about the performance of weightlifting and feeds the data back to the user's mobile app, and suggests how to adjust the training program to maximize progress.

This is part of the wearable technology trend that is rapidly changing the fitness industry, and it is one of several products exhibited at the Toronto Wearable Entertainment and Sports Conference (west), held in Tuesday. Organizers expect at least 300 people to take part in a one-day event dedicated to exploring how sports and entertainment companies use like Google Glasses and biometric technology.

But change is not cheap. The registration fee for regular meetings after taxes is USD 350.

But the conference organizer Tom Emrich points out that wearable technology is shifting from a stunt to necessity for those who take entertainment, sports or fitness seriously.

Last spring, Nike plus ran applications that could draw a running map and calculate the number of steps and burning calories that have been downloaded more than 20 million times. Its rival Adidas recently restarted the Micoach program, which also uses embedded techniques for watches, shoes and shirts to record runners ' statistics. When UnderArmour, the upstart garment maker, entered the running shoes market, it soon acquired a data company that paid 150 million of dollars for the online fitness community map my Fitness.

Qaizar Hassonjee, vice president of Adidas's innovative and wearable electronics, says runners and exercisers are looking for detailed, real-time feedback on each op.

"Our core DNA is to make all the athletes better, which is why we want to use wearable technology," Hassonjee said. As important as equipment is, it will also bring insights and data that you collect. ”

Alhamad's equipment uses techniques similar to weightlifting, where conventional analysis once required the bulky, expensive device it saw on U's T, with equipment costing about 1500 dollars and a push retail price of $189.

There are now about 500 sets of equipment, more out of stock, and early adopters include Philadelphia fliers, NBA Orlando Magic and Detroit Lions.

"I instinctively thought, ' Let's do something smaller and cheaper, and we can do the same thing, '" Alhamad said. "Anyone can get a sport like an NFL rugby player. The only difference is that the NFL athlete has a coach in interpreting data metrics. ”

(Responsible editor: Lvguang)