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GPS could help football refs make calls

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David L. Shenkenberg, [email protected]

This Super Bowl Sunday, imagine if referees could make more accurate calls using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPS technology. Priya Narasimhan is making this dream a reality. “We can track the wide receiver catching [the football],” said Narasimhan, an associate professor of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her team of engineers has put electronics in the football and in the players’ gloves. The engineers can measure the acceleration and pressure of the football as it hits the gloves. Engineers at Carnegie Mellon are using GPS to track football trajectories. So far,...Read full article

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