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As the New York Giants American football players go through off-season workouts, their coaches are using gadgets—such as watches equipped with GPS devices and bands that track players’ heart rates—to get a better sense of their exertions on the practice field. Now coaches can see how far and how fast individual players run and how quickly they recover from activity, so as to avoid overtaxing them.












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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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