All kinds of wearable tech are out there on the market, but one recent innovation serves a very specific and globally popular sport.
CricFlex, created by a group of five Pakistani engineers, is an arm sleeve that cricket players can use to train and evaluate their bowling angle, and also to determine if the angle is legal or illegal. An angle greater than 15 degrees is illegal.
The sleeve automatically picks up a cricketer’s illegal bowling move and transmits the results to a smartphone app that cricketers can use to see various metrics — arm force, action time and spin rate — and improve their performance accordingly.