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 ...

Fewer than 200 Wilson Airless Gen1 basketballs will exist in the world. The first commercial version of Wilson’s Basketball that Doesn’t Need To Be Inflated Because It’s Already Full of Holes will ...

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 ...

Basketball has changed a lot over the years, and that goes for the sport as well as the ball itself. While James Naismith first prescribed tossing soccer balls into peach baskets to allow athletes to ...

Wilson debuted its limited edition airless basketball on Friday. The Airless Gen 1 comes with a $2,500 price tag, and it's already sold out. The 3D-printed ball is the topic of discussion on X, TikTok ...

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 ...

Live long and play basketball. It's not exactly what Star Trek's pointy-eared Vulcan had in mind when he raised his hand in the now-familiar Vulcan salute, but surely he'd appreciate the sentiment -- ...

Oliver has written about technology for more than a decade, spanning some of the biggest properties in the space including Macworld, iMore, Lifewire, and Input. With a focus on mobile, gaming, and ...

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 ...

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If you grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s, you probably spent a fair amount of time in a driveway, gym or some other basketball-enabled facility recreating some of Michael Jordan's iconic ...