Category: Sport
Top 80 things Football Fans love – Live Matches tops list
Perhaps not surprisingly as we enter a second lockdown - and a return to stadiums still a distant hope - the thing we miss most about football is the atmosphere at live matches.Heated derby wins, atmospheric terrace chants and referees falling over are also among the Top 80 things football fans love most about…
4 Ways Technology Is Boosting The Sports Fan Experience
Technology has touched virtually all aspects of modern life, including, now more than ever, the world of professional sports and fandom. There have been some instances where technology has been infused into the actual gameplay itself, which hasn’t necessarily gone down well (yes, the ongoing debate around VAR in the Premier League), but there’s been…
Hublot announces Big Bang E UEFA Champions League
On the day of the draw for world football’s most prestigious club competition, Hublot announces a limited-edition version of the Big Bang e connected watch and a Hublot Loves Football UEFA Champions League app. The new watch is based on the Hublot Big Bang e connected watch launched earlier this year, with a…
NBA Players Who Love Video Games Almost More Than Basketball
When it comes to being social media and internet savvy, NBA players are perhaps some of the most well-versed in the world of sports, often encouraged by the NBA itself to push their respective personal brands to the max online. This has led to certain players leading a parallel life to the one they play…
5 ways technology is improving sports
Former FC Barcelona and Spanish National basketball player, Ferran Martínez, outlines five ways technology has improved sports... Technology has dramatically transformed our society over the past 20-30 years. Between the internet, smartphones, GPS, data analytics, and AI, we have the tools at our fingertips to change any part of society, the economy, or culture that…
Three UK launches ‘Lioness emoji’ campaign in support of England Women’s Football
Three UK are doing their bit to support England at the Women’s World Cup by launching a light-hearted campaign for a lioness emoji. After supporting the men’s team at the 2018 World Cup by decking out some of their shops with lion emojis, the telecommunications company realised there is no lioness emoji with which to…
Schneider Electric provides state of the art energy management system for Spurs stadium
LONDON,ENGLAND - DECEMBER 16: A general view inside the new stadium during the Tottenham Hotspur New Stadium Fan Event on December 15, 2018 in London,United Kingdom. (Photo by Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images) While understandably the retractable pitch and the pint glasses that fill from the bottom…
Just how do they fill glasses from the bottom at new £1 billion Tottenham stadium?
Forget the retractable pitch with an artificial surface underneath or the fact that the whole stadium is cashless. The thing that has got us most excited about the new state-of-the-art Spurs ground is that pint glasses are filled not from the top, but from the bottom. Although it sounds like a late April Fool joke,…
Nike confirms $350 Adapt BB ‘connected shoes’ with smartphone control
As per our story this morning, Nike has confirmed a new pair of connected shoes which are self-lacing and can be controlled from a smartphone. The new Nike Adapt BB contain what the sportswear firm called power laces, which tighten or loosen the shoes at the press of a button - either on the shoes…
Is Nike about to launch self-lacing trainers controllable via your smartphone?
The game will never be the same. Tune in tomorrow at 8AM EST. @nikebasketball pic.twitter.com/4LrJGpPDY6 — Nike (@Nike) January 14, 2019 Sportswear giant Nike looks set to launch its first self-lacing basketball trainers, which the company has suggested will be controllable from a smartphone. The US firm posted a video to Twitter (see above) showing…