Baseball-hitting Robot Hits Baseballs And More
Most of us have been to a batting cage before. Hit a few balls around, etc. Usually a robot is doing the pitching to us. Now the tables have turned. This robot, dubbed “The Headless Batsman,” can hit...
View Article'Improv Everywhere' at a little league baseball game
This isn’t gadget related but, hey, there’s (probably) more to life than just gadgets — like Improv Everywhere showing up to a little league game decked out as NBC Sports, complete with announcers, a...
View ArticleReview: Liveboard Live Baseball Scoreboard
Those of you over the age of 25 might remember something called “baseball” — I used to play baseball when I was a kid. In the days before everyone spent all of their time inside on the internet,...
View ArticleNintendo Fan Network now free for Mariners' fans
I’m sitting in the Virgin America gate at JFK waiting for my flight to Seattle and I come across this tidbit of news. I’m both stoked and bummed at the same time. I’m stoked because this is a pretty...
View ArticleBaseball MMOG lets you purchase levels: only $200 for level 99!
So the only baseball-based massively multiplayer game out there is now letting you shell out real life cash for in-game levels, giving you access to better leagues, tournaments, and I imagine making...
View ArticleBaseball prepares itself for on-the-field instant replay
Not even instant replay could help this team As if baseball isn’t slow enough already, it now looks like the MLB will allow the use of instant replay to help make on-the-field calls. Don’t tell the...
View ArticleA mesmerizing look at the Hatfield Hotdog Launcher
Wow. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Hatfield Hotdog Launcher that’s brought out in between innings at the Phillies’ games. A lot of work went into getting all the science-y stuff...
View ArticleNice: Earl Weaver Baseball coming to iPhone
Anyone over the age of 30 may fondly remember Earl Weaver Baseball for Amiga, DOS, and the Apple II. I myself had an Apple IIc and split most of my time between Earl Weaver Baseball and Hardball!...
View ArticleAre you ready for some baseball? Your iPhone can stream live games
A $10 At Bat app for the iPhone will stream “out-of-market” games to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The first game will be the Cubs-White Sox at 2:20pm today and then the Tigers-Cardinals game at...
View ArticleVideo: Two robots playing baseball (kind of)
Baseball is a national sports in Japan and so it was just a matter of time for this baseball- and robot-crazy country to invent (industrial) robots that are able to play baseball. The 2-robot team...
View ArticleRoku bringing MLB.TV to their lineup
Own a Roku? Are you so much of a baseball fan that you’ve signed up for the MLB.TV premium package? Then we have a surprise for you: Roku just announced that they’ve added MLB.TV’s live, out of market...
View ArticleIt's time for the MLB to adopt instant replay
Look, I’d be lying if I said I followed baseball this season. I’m a Mets guy, and you just know that, once April hits, you’re in for a reasonably OK season, but one that just looses steam as the...
View ArticleMLB 09 The Show predicts a Phillies win in 7 games (take that, Yankees!)
http://www.viddler.com/simple_on_site/50950c23 Yes~! I’m rooting for the Phillies over the Yankees this World Season because I’m a Mets fan, and I’d sooner root for Team Mars in an Earth vs. Mars Loser...
View ArticleSo much for that MLB 09 The Show prediction!
Well that didn’t exactly pan out, now did it? Sony’s MLB 09 The Show predicted last week that the Philadelphia Phillies would win the World Series in seven games. As y’all know by now, the New York...
View ArticleJet Hitter: New Baseball robot allows solo practice
Baseball robots are nothing new (there’s even a dedicated Wikipedia article on them), but that didn’t stop Japan’s Meiji University and Yokohama-based metal recycling company MRC [JP] to come up with...
View ArticleFirst 3D baseball game ever will air on DirecTV in July
Yeah, this will be real exciting in 3D… Listen, it’s all well and good that DirecTV gets to make these grandiloquent announcements that it’s going to offer this or that sport in 3D—today’s news is...
View ArticleLame: The iPad is banned at Yankee Stadium
Bad news, Yankees fans. Apparently the winningest team in the history of sport doesn’t want you sitting inside the stadium with an iPad on your lap. That’s right: the iPad is banned at Yankee Stadium!...
View ArticleVideo: This is what happens when you talk on your phone at the game
http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/player-dest.swf Yankee Stadium and technology simply don’t mix well together. We already know that the stadium had banned the iPad as part of its “no...
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Topps: Iconic Trading Cards Brand Goes Beyond Cardboard With First-Ever...
Topps, the company best known for its Bazooka bubble gum and for essentially inventing and popularizing trading cards in the 1950s, is today releasing its first-ever mobile apps in conjunction with the...
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Major League Baseball Strikes Deal With Qualcomm To Sort Out Wireless In...
Major League Baseball is the stuff of Americana and nostalgia, but it’s also trying hard to keep up with the 21st century. Today, MLBAM, its interactive/digital media subsidiary, said that it has inked...
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