Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and I'm here on the field at MetLife Stadium at a very rainy beginning to a Jets dolphins Monday Night Football game and we actually are here to take a look at what happens on the sidelines this is well before kickoff but there are surface tablets that have been deployed here in this past season and these are the first time that there have been tablets as opposed to the more traditional system of printed app plays so what happens technologically on these sidelines are these tablets full-featured stat heavy things no they're actually much more targeted simplified play delivery mechanisms that show you pictures of what's going on in a play-by-play basis before we had these still prints rarebit we need series we had guys on and out and in these black-and-white photos you know for a couple years we had the color high-definition photos but now they just hold on to it and are standing there and in serious like right after playing believe it or not some of the older guys really embraced it like we didn't expect our offensive coordinator to dive right in we thought he was gonna hesitate to jump into the technology sure and he grabbed it and he loved it and it's a go and you can't use cell phones on the sidelines you can't use a lot of technology so the existence of tablets is new and interesting what you see from the floating cameras and the special Birds Eye views and the glowing sidelines and the yellow markers that stuff that's for TV production the what the coaches get access to is a much more simple system it could get more complicated as time goes on so the coaches are gonna have a setup that they want to see and each coach could be a little bit different from special teams or offensive defensive coordinators so they before the game starts have a preference that preference is unloaded in and so whatever they're seeing from the sideline or the end zone cams what they want to see coaches would have to wait for the series now they get it instantaneously right the other advantage is like they can take it in so I'm an NFL coach I'm standing here in a soaking wet sideline I'm grumpy I'm using a tablet but this thing actually does work in the rain you can annotate with this that the the stylus thankfully does write in in pretty rainy conditions here very well this is the only technology that you're gonna see them using they're not gonna pull out a cellphone or anything else like that so what they're doing is they've got the headsets they'll be communicating with we've got their tablets and and they've also got the still shot system as well but then also they're independent networks you couldn't take this for example and go walk over the other side lines and even get on their system I think the biggest challenge is really were the ability to work in the harsh environments the NFL but that's why you have this as a heated and weather controlled charging station for these tablets that also acts as a backup in case the wireless isn't working you could actually load the photos from each play inside this that's this hardwired connection right here I've been out here only about an hour and you can see how wet I am so you can imagine a three-hour game how wet the electronics get so it's got to hold up that's a view a quick look at how the NFL action works on surface tablets and some of the tech that goes on on the field I'm Scott Stein here in MetLife Stadium getting ready for kickoff