New Bluetooth application will let sport fans share experiences in real time
Imagine watching a football match, seeing a foul and being able to immediately swap comments with friends who saw the same incident from the other side of the stadium.
View ArticleEvacuating 70,000 sports fans in less than an hour?
What sports fan hasn't grumbled while waiting in a long, snaking lines to get into the stadium for the big game? It's enough to discourage even a diehard fan. But if you think it's a hassle getting...
View ArticlePenn State's Audible Assault
Loud stadiums help win games, and Penn State's Beaver Stadium is one of the loudest in college football. When its crowd roars at a visiting quarterback, his calls can only be heard from a foot and a...
View ArticleRaptors guard S.African World Cup stadium
A South African World Cup stadium has turned to birds of prey to chase out rogue pigeons and rats in an anti-pest strategy that favours raptors above the pitch instead of poisons.
View ArticleGoogle puts 3D models of World Cup stadiums online
Google added panoramic pitch-level photographs and 3D models of the World Cup stadiums in South Africa to its online offerings on Tuesday.
View ArticleQatar figures out novel way to cool crowds for 2022 World Cup
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what should be viewed as a contender for some sort of science prize for originality, researchers at Qatar University have come up with an idea whereby artificial clouds might be...
View ArticleLeverkusen unveil high-tech stadium plans
Bayer Leverkusen, who are on course to return to the Champions League next season, unveiled plans on Tuesday to turn their ground into a high-tech friendly "Stadium of the Future" for football fans.
View ArticleNight games in sports stadiums and street lighting can cause spike in daytime...
Brightly-lit Cowboys Stadium during Sunday's Super Bowl XLV may symbolize one of the hottest new pieces of scientific intelligence about air pollution: Researchers have discovered in a classic case...
View ArticlePredicting when lightning will strike
When something is unlikely to happen, people often say that there is a greater chance of being struck by lightning. The fact is however that lightning does strike, and is one of the leading...
View ArticleBright, laser-based lighting devices
As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights—the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating demand for more lighting in more places and to...
View ArticleHow baryon acoustic oscillation reveals the expansion of the universe
Imagine a stadium filled with people. With everyone is in their seats, waiting for the game to begin, there is an undercurrent of noise. A few words between friends, the scuffle of shoes, the creak of...
View ArticleGame on for a digital revolution in sport stadiums
It's the middle of finals season with tens of thousands of fans turning out at stadiums to cheer their teams to victory. Many fans at these and other sporting events already turn to digital technology...
View ArticleTeam researches AT&T Stadium's impact on nearby businesses
When businesses synchronized their operations around major events at the then-new AT&T Stadium, they experienced success, a study by management professors at The University of Texas at Arlington...
View ArticleResearchers reveal how NFL game outcomes affect stock returns of stadium...
An examination of NFL stadium sponsorships and sponsors' stock returns finds that immediately following high-interest games, the stadium sponsoring companies celebrate or suffer their own financial...
View ArticleQuake protection looms large in LA stadium bid for Olympics
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has seen almost a century of American history, hosting the first Super Bowl, the 1960 Democratic convention where John F. Kennedy was nominated and two Olympic Games,...
View ArticleFacebook gets in game with new sports hub
Facebook announced a drive Thursday to be a place for sports with a new online hub for news and sharing on sporting events.
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