Become a basketball pro with Wilson X!

January 26, 2020

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To help you improve your basketball throws, the Wilson brand has decided to unveil its first smart health connected ball, which gives you your statistics.

Since their invention, smart health connected objects have always been useful for athletes. smart health connected shoes, yoga mats 2.0 or activity trackers, everything is in place for the athlete to improve his performance, and that In all areas. While the Euro Basketball just ended with a final victory for Spain, the innovations in this sport make slowly their appearance. Latest: Wilson's smart health connected balloon.

Sensors in a tube, really?

Certainly, purists will notice that this is not the first smart health connected basketball. Usually known for quality sports products in American football, volleyball, tennis and therefore basketball, the American company Wilson decided to spend the second by starting to connect its objects. At first glance, the Wilson X is a basketball the most mundane. And for good reason.

The real innovation is inside the sphere. A myriad of sensors, housed inside a tube, act as a gyroscope and accelerometer to give multiple information to the player. At the battery level, the American researchers decided to be strong. Indeed, it is announced that the autonomy would be as long as the life of the balloon. Something to convince players of all stripes to invest in Wilson’s new baby.

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Improve your throws in Bluetooth

Fortunately, the ball is not the only tool to inform the player about the quality of his free throws or his performance in matches; an application was developed in parallel. Operating by Bluetooth, it is thus possible to know how many shots have been taken, how many successful (or missed), when they were drawn, simply by taking a look at its smartphone.

In addition, for those who wish to do a few training sessions alone, it is also possible to take advantage of different modules, such as the "against the watch" for example. However, for now, only iPhone owners will be able to benefit from this balloon, the Android version arriving this fall. As for Windows Phone…

Prices and availability

Currently, the Wilson X smart health connected Balloon is not available only in the United States, for the modest sum of $ 199.99. If no date is set for Europe, it is always possible to study the terms of delivery on the Wilson website.

While Wilson doesn't specialize only in basketball, we can assume that this technology does not make its first and last appearance there. When will the badminton shuttles be smart health connected?

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