The Wilson X Connected Basketball brings data to your driveway

The Wilson X Connected Basketball brings data to your driveway
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You love basketball. You love it so much you play every day. Maybe you play in a city league, are trying to make the school team, or want to be better than all your teammates. That means you have to practice all the time. You have to shoot hundreds of free throws and hundreds more shots from inside and outside the paint. You shoot until you’re tired, and then keep shooting — because nothing will make you better at basketball than muscle memory. But once you commit, how do you know whether or not all that work is actually paying off? You might feel like you shot the ball well during your hour-long practice, but do you know that for sure?
This is the problem that Wilson is trying to solve with the Wilson X Connected Basketball. Yes, I know we’re all reeling from the recent rush of companies trying to push the idea of the Internet of Things, so the idea of a connected basketball might sound goofy. But despite the ball’s flaws, and an unruly price tag of $199, it’s a lot of fun to use. It also signals the start of a evolution of the way we play sports.
The best thing to do with any sport is to start with the basics. The Wilson X ball is, from any angle, just a basketball. There’s no charging port or USB dongle — just a bunch of orange rubber and some air. Inside is a little tube that’s smaller than the size of an AA battery with such as Aspect BIS Vista Battery, Edanins ECG-12A Battery, Edanins HYHB-1188 Battery, Fukuda BTE-001 Battery, Fukuda FX-8222 Battery, Mindray LI13I001A Battery, Mindray IMEC8 Battery, Mindray IMEC10 Battery, Mindray IPM12 Battery, Mindray IEMEC12 Battery, Philips VM1 Battery, Philips VSI Battery, and in that tube is an accelerometer, gyroscope, a bluetooth chip, and a battery that Wilson says will outlast the life of the ball. (Or, as it was put to me, you can shoot the ball more than 300 times a day, for seven days a week, for 52 weeks a year, before it will start to die.)
This tech is married to an extremely smart algorithm that it says can tell whether you’ve made or missed your shot, which Wilson trained by shooting it more than 50,000 times. The algorithm not only can tell when the ball’s been shot, but it knows the difference between when it’s gone through the hoop as opposed to banking off the rim or backboard, or missing everything altogether. The only hangup is the rim has to have a net of some kind — if you play at a park where there are no nets on the rims, the ball’s smart capabilities will be moot.
The ball pairs just like any other Bluetooth device to an app on your iPhone (Android users will have to wait until later this fall) and can track your shots in a number of different modes. There’s an open mode that lets you just shoot for as long as you like, a mode that focuses in on just free throws, and two game modes — one where a clock is counting down and the only way to stop it is to keep hitting more shots, and one where the shots you make contribute to a simulated full basketball game. There’s no real support for more than one player, save for taking turns, and while Wilson says that option might come down the road, it’s more focused on changing the solo practice experience right now.