Performance

Most of us don't need special pants that let us know we're exhausted, but for hardcore athletes, such an alert could help stave off injuries. To that end, researchers created an electronic yarn that could detect fatigue based on movement patterns.

Back in 2020 we first heard about BrakeAce, a mountain-bike-mounted power metering system that monitors cyclists' brake usage throughout each ride. Well, it's now available in a new-and-improved wireless form, called the PF2.

The Escalade V is a muscle car with an SUV body. It makes loud noises from its pipes, drives fast, and is stylistically and physically humongous. Even if none of that appeals to you, we'd argue you should try one anyway – if you can afford one, that is.

The Hyundai Elantra sedan was redesigned in 2021 to good effect, with smart styling and a good enough interior for the price point. This year, Hyundai has added a performance-oriented N model, boasting a turbocharged engine and suspension upgrades.

It goes without saying that if a hockey player isn't skating at their full potential, they're not as good of a player as they could be. That's where Scorched Ice hockey skate sensors are made to come in, as they assess the user's skating performance.

With the launch of the Pacer Pro, Polar is aiming to give dedicated runners all the tech needed to plan, track and analyze their training sessions in a lightweight, wrist-worn package that benefits from powerful processing and long battery life.

Monitoring your performance can help you improve in pretty much any sport, and that includes table tennis. The German-designed Janova paddle was created with this fact in mind, as it tracks your strokes while you play.

While there's no substitute for in-person soccer coaching, a coach can't be watching what every player is doing, all the time. That's where the Jogo system is made to come in, as it continuously tracks players' performance from within their shoes.

The usual suspects, like steroids, are closely monitored in sports but what about other drugs such as psychedelics, not commonly thought to be performance-enhancing? Can LSD improve athletic performance, and if so what does this mean for elite sport?

When training for any sort of physical task, it's important to keep challenging yourself as your skills improve. That's the thinking behind a new adaptive basketball hoop, that gets higher and smaller as users make more shots.

You may remember the smart jacket that Google and Levi's launched under the Project Jacquard umbrella – an initiative to add extra smarts to clothing. Now there's a new Jacquard product on sale in the form of smart insoles developed with Adidas.

While there are already performance-tracking watches that count swimmers' laps and strokes, they typically don't provide feedback on the quality of those strokes. A new device known as the SmartPaddle, however, is designed to do just that.