University of Kansas football team turns to smart mouth guard

Wednesday's health and safety news from the world of football: that the University of Kansas football team will use concu sion-sensing mouth guards beginning this spring. Former NFL player Brendan Ayanbadejo about four former players who are suffering from ALS. on a Head Health Network's smart fabric for inside the helmet and Chicago Cubs Jersey registers each hit taken in real time through heat mapping. at how concu sion research is helping to create rules and technology and make football safer. some of the new technology that is aimed at concu sion prevention. Jay Alberts of the Cleveland Clinic, who has helped to develop a concu sion app that helps to detect head injuries. at blood tests to detect concu sions, which it says are still in the research stage. on concu sion research by UC San Diego aimed at high school football players. the findings of a study in the Journal of Neurotrauma that says eye tracking may help quantify concu sions and brain injury severity. -- Bill Bradley, contributing editor Ernie Banks Jersey