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IBM Scores Tennis Serves With 21 Data Points. Not Just Speed. Obviously.
IBM's updated US Open app, part of a 35-year partnership, delivers personalized homepage updates without requiring navigation. The standout feature is a 'serve quality' metric that breaks down a serve into 21 different data points, analyzing limb and racket movements to generate a comprehensive score beyond traditional speed measurements. Jonathan Adashek explained the app surfaces relevant information immediately for each user.
⚡ Step 1: Download the official US Open app during the tournament. Expected outcome: access to...
Golfers Need A Tripod. Not Just Any Tripod. The Stability Is The Whole Point, Obviously.
The article reviews tripods specifically designed for filming golf swings, emphasizing that stable footage is essential for proper technique analysis. Golfers and instructors use these tripods to capture smooth video that enables detailed review of swing mechanics. The right equipment combined with proper technique produces clear, steady footage for coaching purposes.
⚡ Step 1: Prop your phone against a stable object like a water bottle or bag on the ground at...
Garmin Cirqa Survives Thirty Days. Barely. The Customization Is The Real Finding.
After 30 days of testing, the Garmin Cirqa band is reviewed against competitors like Whoop and Amazfit. The reviewer removed features like Sleep Coach, Events, Garmin Coach Plans, and Challenges, noting that users can edit what appears in each dashboard section. The Garmin Connect app offers structured workouts including Strength, Cardio, Yoga, HIIT, Pilates, and Wheelchair modes, plus nutrition tracking launched earlier this year and manual lap creation during live activities with a heart rate graph displayed at the top.
⚡ Step 1: Open the health or fitness app already on your phone. Apple Health, Google Fit, Samsung...
Freeney Swings With AI. His Handicap Noticed. Investing Too, Apparently.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Dwight Freeney used the Performance Golf AI SwingScan to dramatically improve his golf swing. He has also invested in two early-stage AI companies, committing capital alongside his commitment to better ball-striking.
⚡ Step 1: Search for Performance Golf AI SwingScan on your phone's app store or browser and...
Full Swing Syncs Your Stats. Victory Ranch Joins In. The Market Shrugged.
Full Swing introduced a connected app experience that automatically captures, analyzes, and reviews every practice session and simulator round. The update adds Victory Ranch, a course over 7,600 yards, and syncs scorecards, driving distance, and putting statistics for golfers who own a Full Swing KIT. Existing users log in with their Full Swing account while new users can create one quickly.
⚡ Step 1: If you own a Full Swing KIT, open the Full Swing app and log in with your existing...
GameGolf Counts 300 Million Tracked Shots. Shareholders Got A Letter. The Beta Stage Is Telling.
Game Your Game issued a shareholder letter disclosing its AI-powered golf platform has reached 140-plus countries, mapped over 36,000 courses, and tracked an estimated 300 million shots. The company is attempting to transition from beta and limited commercial release to full launch of its GameGolf KZN AI platform. The letter candidly lists risks including whether the platform can perform as intended and whether the company can compete effectively in the golf technology market.
⚡ Step 1: Open any consumer golf tracking app such as 18Birdies or GolfShot on your phone and...
FlightScope Tracked Projectiles In 1989. Now It Tracks Golf Swings. The Pivot Obvious.
FlightScope presented the Gary Player International Golfer of the Year Award at Bellerive, honoring global golfing legacy with a statuette of Player. The company, founded in 1989, originally used proprietary technology to track projectiles for the defense industry before pivoting to sports performance tracking across golf, baseball, softball, tennis, athletics, and cricket. FlightScope positions itself as the industry leader and pioneer in tracking and analyzing sports performance data.
⚡ Step 1: Visit flightscope.com as referenced in the story to explore the company's current...
MIT Moves Your Hand With Electricity. The AI Pulls The Strings. Obvious Caveats Apply.
A hackathon team at MIT built a prototype called Human Operator. It pairs AI with electrical muscle stimulation to physically move a user's hand. The system demonstrates how large models can reach beyond screens into the body. Rehabilitation and accessibility are the stated use cases. Medical oversight and regulatory approval would be required before any real deployment, obviously.
⚡ You cannot build this at home without risk of injury, so do not. But you can grasp the concept...
Google Bets On An AI Coach For Your Wrist. The Ring Bet Is The Tell. Smart Rings Matter.
Google is developing wearable ambitions centered on a Pixel Watch 5, a Fitbit Air, and an AI coach feature. Executives envision future trackers that flag hard-to-detect health conditions early and offer personalized health recommendations. The author notes uncertainty about whether passing on smart rings was a mistake. The overall ecosystem remains, in their words, in existential limbo.
⚡ You can approximate this today with consumer tools. Step 1: Open Apple Health or Google Fit on...
Pixel Watch 5 Wins by Pointing a Camera at Dumbbells. The AI Does the Thinking. Obviously.
Google's Pixel Watch 5 ships with marginal hardware bumps over its predecessor: extra RAM, double the storage, and a slightly faster processor that makes on-device Gemini responses feel less glacial. The genuinely interesting feature is Coach, which lets you photograph your available weights or name a target muscle group, and it builds a workout accordingly. This launches in the coming weeks and will also appear on the Pixel Watch 4 through software updates.
⚡ Step 1: If you own a Pixel Watch 4, wait for the upcoming software update that brings Coach to...
Game Your Game Ships a $299 Neural Net for Your Golf Bag. It Counts Every Real Swing. The Pretend Ones Too, Apparently.
The GameGolf KZN AI device launches commercially by end of September 2026 at $299.99 with a free first year, then $119.88 annually. Smart sensors on each club use accelerometer and gyroscope data fed into an embedded neural network to automatically detect and classify every shot, distinguishing real swings from practice motions. The platform already covers 140-plus countries, 36,000-plus mapped courses, and an estimated 300 million tracked shots.
⚡ Step 1: Open the free Apple Health or Google Fit app on your phone and walk through your house...
AI Coaches Whisper Into Your Earpiece. Your Swing Was Always The Problem. The Feedback Is Finally Honest.
A blog post from ThisFunktional outlines how AI-powered coaches are nearing deployment to analyze golf swings and deliver real-time audio feedback through an earpiece. VR is also emerging as a practice tool for course management and pre-shot routines in immersive digital environments. The author notes that state-of-the-art golf tech can spot and fix swing flaws in moments, though technology supplements rather than replaces human coaching.
⚡ Step 1: Record a 10-second video of any physical movement on your phone, say a golf swing or...
Full Swing Connects Its Simulator To Your Phone. Finally. The QR Code Does The Heavy Lifting.
Full Swing released a connected app-simulator experience that pairs their KIT hardware with a mobile app via QR code scan. Existing users link through their Full Swing account. New users scan the Launcher's QR code to get started. The company also added Victory Ranch Golf Club as a new virtual course. Full Swing is the Official Licensed Simulator of the PGA TOUR and an Official Technology Partner of TGL presented by SoFi.
⚡ Step 1: Download the Full Swing app on your phone and create an account or log into your...
MIT's GeoPT Simulates Fluid Dynamics. Cars, Planes, Boats. Because Pretty Pictures Are Not Enough.
Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University developed GeoPT, an AI approach that understands physics well enough to simulate how vehicles interact with wind and water. The model goes beyond generating 3D objects. It models how those objects behave in real physical conditions. This bridges the gap between visual generation and physical simulation.
⚡ Step 1: Open a free AI image generator like ChatGPT's DALL-E or Microsoft Designer and ask it to...
AVA Golf Turns Swing Data Into Pictures. Golfers Can Finally See What They Suspected. Visualization Precedes Correction, As Always.
AVA Golf connects to golfers' existing tracking technologies and pulls performance data from rounds and practice sessions. The platform identifies which trends most impact scoring, then delivers tailored instructional video playlists targeting each golfer's specific weaknesses. Its proprietary interactive graphics are designed to show where players consistently gain and lose strokes.
⚡ Step 1: Download a free swing-tracking app like Golfshot or TheGrint (both available on iOS and...
V1 Sports Says AI Swing Apps Miss The Point. Golfers Cannot Self-Diagnose. The Coach Knew That Already.
V1 Sports argues that AI swing analysis apps suffer from a fundamental input problem: golfers must describe what feels off, and golfers are notoriously bad self-reporters. The piece notes that human coaches deliberately use exaggerated, technically incorrect movement cues because they get golfers into proper positions faster than anatomically precise explanations ever would. An AI app will detect a casting fault and output the ideal downswing sequence, but it cannot replicate the pedagogical shortcut of a felt, wrong cue that produces a right result.
⚡ Step 1: Record a video of yourself doing any physical motion, a golf swing, a tennis serve, even...
A Wearable Exists and Doesn't. The Ad Did the Leaking. Or the Hallucinating.
At least two Google Australia ads promoting the Pixel 11 family display a fitness tracker that matches no known product in Google's current lineup. Screenshots surfaced on Reddit before technology publications including Gizmodo and Tech My Money began investigating. Google has not confirmed whether this is the Fitbit Charge 7, a Pixel Band, or an AI-generated artifact inserted into the ad creative pipeline.
⚡ Step 1: Visit the Reddit thread linked in the Kingy.ai source and examine the screenshots...
AI Reads Yoga Poses With High Accuracy. Four Models Tested. The Pose Estimation Matters, Obviously.
A study co-authored by the University of East London analyzed four novel AI models for their ability to identify yoga poses. The system aims to enable more effective digital coaching, rehabilitation platforms, and movement-monitoring applications. The research appears in News Medical alongside related work on neurotransmitter tracking and fermentation optimization.
⚡ Step 1: Open any smartphone camera with skeletal tracking filters, which use the same...
Oura Ring 5 Adds Bloodwork Insights. Garmin Cirqa Skips Subscriptions. Form Follows Function, As Always.
TechRadar names screenless fitness trackers the biggest wearable trend of 2026, highlighting eight devices including the Garmin Cirqa and the Oura Ring 5. The Oura Ring 5 launches this year as an AI-powered health platform offering bloodwork insights and user-generated contextual tags like 'bath,' 'meditation,' or 'meeting' to explain stress level fluctuations. The Garmin Cirqa interfaces with the Garmin Connect app and notably avoids mandatory subscriptions unless coaching is desired.
⚡ Step 1: If you own any wearable fitness tracker, open its companion app and locate your stress...
Google's Health Coach Gets Abbott Glucose Data. Personalization Requires Actual Data. Obviously.
Google's AI health coach will ingest data from Abbott's Lingo continuous glucose monitor to personalize guidance on nutrition, activity, sleep, and recovery. US users can already sync medical records, lab results, vital signs, and medication info into the Google Health app and query the coach for summaries. The Lingo integration, an over-the-counter CGM for adults 18 and older not using insulin, rolls out later this year.
⚡ Step 1: Download the Google Health app on your phone and explore what data sources you can...