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A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players' Health

Preventative Medicine The Hothead helmet [shown without padding] sends body-temperature data to a PDA to prevent players from overheating Hadley’s International Production Football championships,...

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Matchbook-Sized Computer Creates Your Own In-Goggle Display

Viewfinder Recon's new display improves on last year's Transcend with smartphone intelligence. Daniel Schumpert and Jason Bline Never look down at your GPS again; instead, glance at a dashboard inside...

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Golf Club Tweaks Your Shot Three Ways

TaylorMade R11 Driver $400; taylormadegolf.com Gregor Halenda For decades, pro golfers have customized their clubs to help them straighten shots. TaylorMade's new R11 driver lets amateurs tweak their...

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A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players' Health

Football championships, coaches say, are won during preseason workouts. So football players, from high-schoolers up to the pros, report to mini-camps every summer to run…

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Matchbook-Sized Computer Creates Your Own In-Goggle Display

Never look down at your GPS again; instead, glance at a dashboard inside your goggles. Recon Instruments’s second-gen micro computer snaps into goggles and shows…

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Golf Club Tweaks Your Shot Three Ways

For decades, pro golfers have customized their clubs to help them straighten shots. TaylorMade's new R11 driver lets amateurs tweak their club in seconds and more accurately…

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The 9 Greatest Recreation Innovations Of The Year

Best Of What's New These are the Best Of What's New The best innovations in recreation of 2016.

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This stick-on sweat monitor knows when you need a drink

Health It's being tested by the Air Force and sports beverage companies Researchers are developing a stick-on sweat sensor that could one day let you know whether you need to rehydrate or replenish...

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Gifts for your athletic (or wannabe athletic) friend

Gift Guides Gifts for those who run, lift, and everything in between Here’s our recommendation for all the athletes in your life—whether they are running a six minute mile or an eleven minute one,...

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Why endurance athletes hit the wall

Health Could a pill keep you going? New study sheds light on the phenomena of “hitting the wall” while offering up potential solution to muscular degeneration diseases.

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Tuning a golf club's signature "thwack" sound costs millions

Technology The wrong timbre can make even a great stick seem terrible Players don't like golf clubs with bad acoustics, so manufacturers pull out all the stops engineering sweet sounding clubs.

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Meet drone dueling, the sport California is about to inadvertently kill

Aviation Vague legislation protects humans from watching awesome robot battles A bill designed to protect people from armed drones could end drone duels as a legal sport.

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Measuring the vibrations of runners' strides could help prevent muscle injuries

Health Bad vibrations. If we could understand how runners adapt to these vibrations, we might be able to better prevent injuries. Read on.

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Why the latest study on football players’ brains is so important

Health Researchers found evidence of CTE in 99 percent of the deceased former NFL players they studied. Scientists have published one of the most definitive studies on CTE’s connection to football...

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This troubling tennis trend is keeping players out of the U.S. Open

Health A more stressful game. The best tennis players in the world are playing the U.S. Open this week. But the men’s entry list has some gaping holes.

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Before trying robot judges, let's learn from robot referees

Technology Automated rulings in sports can help inform the development of criminal justice tech. Decisions around the use of technology to enforce rules in sports can help researchers understand the...

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This stick-on sweat monitor knows when you need a drink

Health It's being tested by the Air Force and sports beverage companies Researchers are developing a stick-on sweat sensor that could one day let you know whether you need to rehydrate or replenish...

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Gifts for your athletic (or wannabe athletic) friend

Gift Guides Gifts for those who run, lift, and everything in between Here’s our recommendation for all the athletes in your life—whether they are running a six minute mile or an eleven minute one,...

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Why endurance athletes hit the wall

Health Could a pill keep you going? New study sheds light on the phenomena of “hitting the wall” while offering up potential solution to muscular degeneration diseases.

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Tuning a golf club's signature "thwack" sound costs millions

Technology The wrong timbre can make even a great stick seem terrible Players don't like golf clubs with bad acoustics, so manufacturers pull out all the stops engineering sweet sounding clubs.

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