On: What Would The End Of Football Look Like?

[tom_b]

Startup opportunity for accelerometers in helmets/pads/shoes and real-time data collection?

I imagine if you came up with the right visualizations, that fans would be interested, e.g., "omg, did you see how the LB lit up that receiver coming over the middle! 150 Gs of impact . . . "

And you know, since we are on HN, "Football Physics: The Anatomy of a Hit" http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/4212...

[openyogurt → tom_b]

There was also an interesting article in National Geographic that described collision analysis using accelerometers in football at the college level. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/big-idea/concussio...