Wilson Airless basketball bounces to market for four-figure price

New Atlas ^ | February 16, 2024 | C.C. Weiss

[discostu]

Your sarcasm is cute. But out here in reality all products can be improved. Will this one actually be an improvement? I don’t know. But living in the desert and watching it eat all rubber I know the current form of athletic with a rubber bladder in the middle aren’t actually that great, two years maybe three before the microcracks show up in the rubber and they won’t hold air anymore. You can make fun of it now when it’s, admittedly, insanely expensive but once upon a time automatic cars in windows were expensive, now they’re just windows. If it works in a decade or two this will be the standard for most balls. It’s called product evolution.

[discostu]

Oops windows in cars. Too many distractions.

[Varsity Flight]

Problem is, you can’t change the bounce.

[golux]

Well, a sweeter version of this was my immediate thought.

-Golux
...the one what wears docksiders in the 'hood

[al baby]

canine approved

[antidemoncrat]

I have an invisible, air filled basket ball I’ll let go for half of that.

[EEGator]

How many blacks die for this?…

[Sequoyah101]

An intuitively obvious question; WHY?

Like so many things today that are so unnecessary and such worthless, idle, mindless gimmicks; WHY?

[Scrambler Bob]

How will it work on a muddy playground?

[TChad]

Wilson Airless Basketball

[linMcHlp]

The future of EV automobile tire “rubber.”

[Songcraft]

That baby will probably go whistling through the air.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Why do some people like to play around with other people’s balls?