Sony unveiled a tennis racket sensor at the CES 2014 earlier this month, now the company has officially announced the Smart Tennis Sensor (SSE-TN1) that would help you improve your tennis racket swing. This latches on to the bottom of your tennis racket and connects to your smartphone over Bluetooth to send data about your swing. This lets you immediately analyze the shot using the dedicated Smart Tennis Sensor application on your iPhone or Android.
The Smart Tennis Sensor weighs just 8g , which offers rotation of the ball, position, velocity and more data immediately. Check out the official demo below.
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The data collected can also be shared easily with your coach or trainers. This lets you count the number of shots, display illustrations where the ball has an impact on the rack, check the swing type, swing speed, ball rotation and more.
The app has Live mode screen that displays data of the immediate shot, type of swing as a graph and trends of each kind of swing. You can also record a video through the app and synchronize your shot accordingly for better perfection.
At the CES the company announced that the product is still in prototype stage. Now it revealed that it would go on sale in Japan in May 2014 priced at 18,000 yen (~Rs. 10,650). No word on global roll out yet.