I’d love to see more of these in schools. So many times I see kids scramble to get the “good” basketballs and the unlucky kids get the crappy balls that don’t bounce at all. Having these also available would provide as a nice alternative.
@@ksadjdadjaifencut up basketballs from years of use in schools had these sharp edges. Gyms wouldn’t replace new ones so after years of use the skin would be sticking out sharp and it would cut your fingers. It wouldn’t be a sharp cut but it would still kinda hurt and it would be a pain sitting down to write after
Fun fact - China banned child labor in 1991 because we asked them to. By comparison the province I live in here in Canada allows child labor for certain industries like farming. In China the age of work is 16 here it's only 14. So technically they're doing better than Canada on the issue.
@@abebuckingham8198 sorry Abe but now we got 7 year olds 'Yao' and 'Heung' who are breathing in harmful toxics released from plastics, while being in charge of the manufacturing of this 'airless basketball' which looks absolutely hideous
If the ball was engineered correctly, it would have EXACTLY the same weight as a standard basketball, and a VERY close approximation to its dynamic elasticity (bounciness).
I thought about that, too. There was a short clip in the video where it looked like they applied another layer, kind of like a sticker, to the outside of the ball. After the new layer was applied, it looked like it had the surface of a typical basketball.
Same, it actually made me way better at controlling the ball, because I had to learn to keep the nub on top at all times so it didn't screw up the bounce and make it go flying lol
There is still the issue of the holes, they'll add a tiny bit of aerodynamics since air can just pass right through, meaning you can throw this ball a little further than before.
Personal-use 3d printers are not of the same quality lmao. Also I would say personal use 3d printers do print correctly around 99% of the time assuming proper usage. Source: I own a 3d printer; only mess-ups I've really had have been bed adhesion.
I think a professional industrial 3d printer would be more accurate then the one you have at home 😁also to prove you wrong nasa has an accurate 3d printer (u said there aren't any)
@@hubertcumberdale6404 There was a shot in the video of it being pulled out of what looks like a laser sintering machine, I think that's how theyre made
Players still have to test it though. Aerodynamics would be different for a sphere that air has to pass around it and a spherical object that air can pass through.
What makes you say that? I mean, couldn't you just as easily say "kids of the past will never know how amazing these pop-proof, leak-proof, high-grip basketballs are"? Why are the old ones any better?
Kids in the future will never know how awesome it was to not have advanced technology and easy access to great healthcare & non radioactive or poisonous products. Lmfao. Unless they’re in China or some other crap country.
thats like someone in the 50's saying "future kids won't know how amazing our basketballs were". Do you ever think about how you wish you could play with a basketball from the 1950s? no. no one cares. Things get better.
If playing in outdoors, there is a change to get mud and/or small debris to go inside and stuck there. Which will differ actual weight and bounce of basketball
Bro you know damn good and well that PG will find some excuse lol "ohh my fingers get stuck in the holes when I shoot" excuse me sir....are your fingers cigarettes??!! Lol
I mean I'd have to imagine they'll cover the holes with an outside padding if it starts getting widely used, I'd imagine the commercial version won't look much different than a normal basketball
I would assume the air travelling through the ball rather than around it would create some differences. Would love to see this thing tried out in an exhibition game.
You could account for the amount of air drag a traditional ball has and print it in a way that makes it identical to a traditional ball. Basically by making the holes bigger or smaller until it has the same amount of air drag.
I don't know much about basketball but the the difference in equipment depending on the environment is a fun element. For the players to have to adjust also adds to it.
Realistically, everyone will see this, then they’ll say it’s too weird, too different, or causes problems with how they play (even if it doesn’t). So no one will buy it, Wilson will decide to manufacture basketballs the traditional way to keep from becoming bankrupt, and it’ll all have been one interesting but very short-lived experiment. 😭
That was my immediate thought seeing it too, the aerodynamics are gonna be way different to the point it puts pro-ballers at a massive disadvantage so I can't see them ever adopting the new style. If they somehow do manage to make it new regulation then there's always going to be tons of complaints in pro games from the losing side... They'll start claiming the new ball bounced or flew differently and cost them the game. No matter which side loses they'll use the new balls as an excuse to demand a rematch claiming they would've won if it was a regular one so I imagine it's not gonna last long before it's banned from all the complaints, if it even somehow gets adopted in the first place...
@@DrakeOola Meh. MLB changes the spec of a baseball every few years. Golf changes the spec of a golfball every few years. The NBA changes about once a decade. They'll get over it. Everytime there's a baseball spec change there's a year of people complaining and then it's a non issue. Golf? Same thing. NBA? Same thing. People get over it.
The main problem I see with the ball is how it interacts with surfaces over time (friction - inducing the grip on the ball for dribbling and shooting along with hitting the rim, etc) and spin (it’s hollow so it will fly differently than a regular basketball)
@@jedisrc00l I think what he's trying to say is that air passes through all of the holes in the ball, so the drag is different from a traditional basketball as it flies through the air.
@@jedisrc00lyes but it has a total sealed circumference. The Air moves through this one changing drag and wind resistance for the ball in the air and how it bounces.
I think it still has the leather outer shell. This is just the inner portion of the basketball. You know how like a normal basketball has the rubber underneath the leather?
@@rileypaul3244 its probably a resin based SLA printer and not a FDM like most printers are/were. I can see why he'd describe one of those that way, and think it was some new, significantly different tech, which it is, but maybe not understand that all printers fit his wording lol. SLA can do the entire layer at once and is almost certainly how youd do something like this ball anyway nowadays
I doubt it feels the same, there's a reason we can't have air-less tires on the street. Air distributes the pressure evenly throughout the inside of the ball, this ball would only bounce because of deformation. So basically it wouldn't feel the same and while it does still bounce I 100% doubt it feels the same.
@@JamieBootay-uf9fi And it never will, I see a giant flop. Or maybe it will be like how they promised us airless tires years ago, then they realized that air is kinda important, but they still decided to make them for atv's because they're on rough terrain anyway. Maybe they'll make these and some people will use them, but it will never replace the basketballs in the NBA
This ball's 3D geometric structure will allow for the same bounce as a standard NBA basketball. I recommend you do more research before concluding how effective the ball would be.
By changing the physics of it being non pressurised it will make it denser and harder to bounce, not to mention more dangerous given that significantly less air resistance on the ball will change how it bounces or is thrown.
@@phamthai6052 they won't fool. That's why it's called sustainable. Even if they add fake leather it will still ruin the whole point of making this ball
@@Piyushrahi you might want to cover it with something Einstein. If you play outside think about all the little rocks that'll be clanging around in the ball.
Plastic has only a certain amount of bends before it loses structure. These balls will do flat in a different way. It's not the future of balls, they'll never use them.
@@not_glad I don’t think they’d be dumb enough to stick with plastic. Plenty of elastic alternatives that are just as effective and 3d printer capable.
I get your point, but this is a ball that's constanlty being hit, thrown, bounced, and abused. There is no material on earth that doesn't degrade from use. Planned obsolescence exists (mostly in electronics) but most of the time shit just breaks because things always break from use.
Just accept it man in the future our only job will be filling out forums and fixing machinery because companies don’t have to pay machines and right now they are being used in high quantities
@@cornycontent1915 the only part of that which is correct is the time, but if you get 3000, probably more because Wilson is rich, it would be faster and cheaper than manual labor and factories which they use currently
That's a neat prototype. Hope to see more especially with how it handles aerodynamically. Also, how it sounds as well. That dink of a well inflated ball is very distinct.
The openings are so small, the air resistance is pretty negligible, as far as curving it. But with the right amount of spin, you could curve it pretty good. Although it might not be as dramatic as you think, because of the uniformness and spacing of the holes.
3D printers have been printing single 2D layers to make one 3D shape from their invention to now. The application used to give the printer a file is literally called a "Slicer" because it slices the 3D file into 2D layers
It moves in 3 dimensions yes it prints layer by layer that are 2d like a normal printer but obviously a 3d printer has another axis of movement vertically but I get ur point
