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 ...

The wait is over: Wilson Sporting Goods’ 3D-printed airless basketball goes on sale on Feb. 16. At a purchase price of $2,500 for the limited edition, though, it begs the question — who exactly is ...

Forward-looking: Sports gear company Wilson has reinvented the basketball. It recently created a high-tech prototype that needs no air to bounce. The so-called "Airless Prototype" is the first ...

Basketball was invented in 1891, and aside from switching to the now-iconic orange ball around the 1950s (and ditching an OG version with laces, akin to a football), not a whole lot has changed about ...

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 ...

It is hard to imagine a ball without air, especially as it looks deflated and would not bounce as it is, making it hard to play with in different sports. However, Wilson wants to change that, and as ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Makers are reinventing sports gear with 3D-printed airless balls that never go flat. By tuning lattice geometry, filament choice, and print settings, they achieve bounce and durability close to ...

K.J. Martin shows off the airless basketball prototype from Wilson he will use in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star events in Salt Lake City. The black lattice-work design K.J. Martin holds in ...