Nadine Lippa, innovation manager at Wilson Sporting Goods, wasn’t joking when she says her boss tasked her to “reinvent the basketball.” And her 3D Airless Prototype Basketball does feel like ...

How many times has a game of basketball been thwarted by a ball that was too flat to bounce? An air pump with a properly sized needle isn’t something most people carry around with them all the time, ...

Wilson Sporting Goods has released a limited edition Airless Gen1 3D-printed basketball. With only 75 unique units during this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend, it has sold out. In 2023, Wilson turned ...

Wilson’s Airless Gen1 basketball is back. The hollow, $2,500 3D-printed basketball that doesn’t need to be inflated was first showcased at the 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend. Now, Wilson is selling the ...

A hole in your basketball is typically not a good thing, but Wilson's bizarre new Airless basketball prototype treats them as a feature. Indeed, it's probably more hole than ball, and yet it's said to ...

Sports equipment manufacturer Wilson has unveiled a prototype 3D-printed airless basketball that, unlike traditional balls, does not need to be inflated. Made from an elastomeric polymer developed by ...

Chung-Yi Weng, PhD student at the University of Washington, and some of his friends created something truly astonishing. Their software called “Photo Wake-Up” allows character animations to simply ...

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. has announced the latest release of the Wilson Airless Gen1, which is a first-of-its-kind 3D-printed basketball that never needs to be inflated. First debuted as a prototype ...

The 19 th annual “Animation Show of Shows” brings an eclectic array of personal films from around the world to American audiences accustomed to equating animation with high-end CG features. This ...