The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information.

  • Venicone
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    214 hours ago

    I actually think this is pretty cool. The haptic feedback changes based on which alert it is for so a player coming out of penalty box will feel different to which players are in the box, also a countdown timer so they don’t have to look for the time on scoreboard etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    15 hours ago

    Sounds like it shows numbers, maybe as notification?

    Incredible way to show off and use an expensive smartwatch. As if it would matter which os runs to show some numbers. Hence, this is just an ad