The Boston Globe, November 22nd, 2007
The gridiron is becoming a new scientific laboratory, as football helmets fitted with the type of chip that gives the Nintendo Wii its motion-sensing magic help doctors study concussions. Simbex, a Lebanon, N.H., company that develops technologies focused on sports injuries and rehabilitation, has integrated motion- detecting accelerometer chips from Analog Devices Inc. into football helmets that have been worn by hundreds of college and high school players. The helmets, made by sports equipment company Riddell, give athletic trainers on the sidelines another way to monitor their players in re...
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