Ultimate Guide to Sports Technology

Today, technology is strongly integrated with everyone’s everyday lives. Many people don’t go a day in their lives without using some kind of technology in computers, cars, TVs, phones, and more. Technology is even starting to become integrated with sports in various ways. Disabled athletes use technology to be able to compete, athletes undergo scientific studies to understand how their bodies work, and even sports have been improved through technology. Here’s the ultimate guide to sports technology.

Academic Research

• Research and Development: A look at some sports technology related research projects.
• Sports Technology Institute: Official site of the Loughborough University division dedicated to sports technology research.
• Human Monitoring and Sports Management: Provides information on research projects about monitoring bio-medical aspects of sports and others.
• Materials and Sports Technology: The academic research group of the Liverpool John Moores University.
• Sports Surface Technology: The Cranfield University division dedicated to sports surface.

Sports Technology Software

• Active Sports: Provides a list of links to online sports software.
• PST Online: Homepage for Phoenix Sports Online, which has multiple sports-related technology products.
• IST Golf: Homepage for a golf technology product that’s very popular.
• Sports Analyzer Software: Homepage for a piece of software that helps people analyze scheduling information and other aspects of sports.
• Hey-Tek Sports: A company that sells multiple sports-related technology software pieces including track and field software, swimming software, and others.
• Sydex Sports: A software product that analyzes sports coaching statistics.
• AllPro Software: Software page for multiple baseball-related sports products.
• TQ Sports Software: A company that sells multiple types of sports software.
• AVA Play: Site that sells software related to sports information management.
• Football Software: Offers software for fantasy football fans.

Journals and Conferences

• Sports Technology: Online journal covering such topics as sports products development, sports aerodynamics, sports biometrics, and more.
• International Journal of Sports Science and Engineering: An international online sports technology journal.
• The Sports Journal: A journal that studies the relationship between sports equipment and technology.
• FSA Sports Media & Technology: Official site of one of the leading sports and technology conferences in the United States.
• Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology: Homepage of the conference organized by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
• ISEA Conference: Website of the International Sports Engineering Association, which organizes an annual conference on sports and technology.

Science and Sports

• Exploratorium: Sports Science: Great compilation of article and interactive exhibits on sports technology.
• Gatorade Sports Science Institute: Tips and research on the science of sport.
• Technology and Sport: Australian article that discusses sports and technology.
• Innovation in Sports Technology -- Inevitable or Unfair?: Article that discusses whether or not technology
• Sports, Medicine and Technology: Many articles on how technology is tying into sports medicine today.
• Sandy Hanebrink Article: Describes how the new era of fitness and sports technology is helping the disabled.