look you know Wilson sent this to me I didn’t spend $2,500 and if I did spend $2,500 this would probably go on a shelf and I just be like it is an artifact you can look at it and that’s about it so you guys recall the video that I made on the new absolutely wild Wilson basketball well something happened with that Basketball full transparency here I began to develop some some little tiny fractures is this a real thing that’s meant to be used is it a collector’s item I know it’s got the fancy base you just look at it but I was also impressed by the engineering like yeah you can bounce it and it feels a lot like a basketball so I reached back out to Wilson’s and they said oh actually you know what those were really early versions that we sent out to a handful of people we’re now beginning to make the ones that are more similar to the ones that will eventually be shipped out so I was like oh cool all right can we do a swap they were cool enough to send over a black one so in this box over here we have a black version of that very special heirless gen one basketball now it’s important to note this is still Innovative stuff and Incredibly Fringe and it’s not I don’t think it’s really meant to replace your actual basketball the feel of like a leather Wilson regulation basketb it’s a beautiful thing I mean the grip it’s all if you’re into sport you know how important the feel is and the main drawback with these airless basketballs is the actual texture on the outside of the ball and I said in the original video maybe like some sort of airless solution would be to wrap Honeycomb Core in a leather texture so you could have feel and airless allinone maybe for a future date this is kind of experimenting in real life through products and I know that’s been like a Hot Topic recently cuz everybody’s been looking at a bunch of gadgets and going these things aren’t ready for prime time at the stage it’s at right now at the sort of gen One beta stage it’s not going to be as robust as what gen three or four or five might be and I’m okay with that like I fully understand that going into it and I adjust my behaviors accordingly but some people are going to have a different threshold the earliest of adopters always suffer to a certain extent and I’ve always been one of the earliest adopters so I’m used to suffering when it comes to new and innovative products and I personally kind of enjoy the process of like taking part and examining things as they’re on their path towards becoming something interesting and possibly something widely adopted so this packaging is identical to what I received last time I actually shipped back the entire thing ooh and I actually think it looks better in this black version today’s episode has been sponsored by Lifey in and their new wave electric toothbrush so I’ve been using a life and wave for a while now ever since they sent it to me it’s basically replaced my previous electric toothbrush and it’s a type of object given the design that you actually look forward to picking up the fact that it’s got an entirely sealed body and it can be submerged lends itself both to durability and just aesthetic in airplane mode and a few different settings with a pressure sensitive button and a magnetic charge cable look at this it’s like mag safe so you don’t have a big bulky charger you take your little cable you stick this in airplane mode and you travel with it now once you’ve got your head installed and you turn it on you see the way the brush head oscillates that’s a dentist recommended movement right there I mean that simulates an actual brush stroke now of course it’s vibrating as well at the same time but that’s what’s special about this toothbrush look at the little battery indicator I think it’s some sort of combination when you’ve got that big oscillation 60° and the vibration built in you really don’t feel like you’re missing a manual toothbrush at all it’s got plenty of power this 60° rotation here is actually three times wider than on competing brand so you’re getting more of a brush stroke action than what you can get elsewhere I personally appreciate the simple design of the life and wave and the fact that the body is sealed in fact you can submerge the entire thing you can also get it in aluminum alloy and there’s a plastic version so depending on the price point you’re looking for and how premium you want to go you’ve got those options so it’s that combination of rotation and vibration that’s going to get your teeth clean thank you to liyen for sponsoring this portion of the episode so here it is airless gen one it looks like like more like a street ball and just well more Stealth In general the other color that I had was kind of like an off-white style color that looked like a more typical 3D printer type of material but maybe slightly more rubbery it’s hard to say without having the other one in my hand it might feel a little bit more finished than the initial version that they sent me we still got our custom tag on there unbox therapy and we have our plaque certificate of authenticity the accompanying ball is genuine Wilson heirless gen one authenticated by the manufacturer welcome to the future of sports Wilson is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of sports Innovation with the airless gen one basketball this moment marks a historic achievement and we hope it fills you with the significance it holds in the world of basketball if you look at the packaging I would say they are kind of trying to imply to you that this thing is meant to be on display and not necessarily used on a daily basis and I just assume that most people investing in a gen one $2500 basketball are probably going to collect it rather than use it for street ball I’m just saying that’s just me regardless of how it performs cuz I am going to test it I’m actually going to rent a court and get some shots up with it because I didn’t get a chance to do that last time and I’ve got a little bit more confidence in this version of the Gen one because it looks exactly like what they were showing on the website for what people could actually buy unlike the first copy that I had even even though it was from Wilson and I got the regulation ball over there too it’s a PSI of eight currently which is the recommendation okay let me catch a bounce real quick so you can see just a gentle bounce basically brings it to about waist height like it’s very similar and it’s it remains impressive just like the last one that you could have no air at all in here and have it exhibit similar attributes really good here let me drop them both at the same time damn that’s close that’s really close even down to the micro bounces at the end like for anybody who spent the 2500 and I don’t even know if people have started to receive their actual limited edition balls but I think what I’ve got in my hand is exactly what you will be receiving But ultimately I want to take it on a coure and get some shots up because it’s interesting to me how the resistance is going to play a role or if there is going to be added resistance with air moving through the ball instead of around it let’s go ahead and jump on the court okay so uh we’re on the court now it’s pretty cool first we’ll just have the classic ball here what can I say about the feeli satisfying predictable bounce and sound sound as well so that was another thing with the airless one you don’t have such a thump to to it and your brain is used to the sound of that thumb so you kind of like prepare your hand to receive the the ball back because you like you hear the noise and the noise is a lot different on the airless one let’s see how different the ball reacts to the [Music] rim that’s a big bounce so that’s a big bounce right hit hit the inside part of the rim and it bounce all the way over there I don’t know if the airless one is going to bounce as much all the way back to me let’s see if we get to airless to do the same thing or not okay let’s switch to the airless one very little noise listen just a tiny little like tick no thump no thump so the weight on the bounce is almost identical that’s the impressive part same amount of pressure applied same amount of force and the ball responds like the real basketball or the regular basketball okay I was short short with that that’s probably just a shooter more than the ball there the fact that I was short with it or is the weight through air different is it picking up some air and more resistance pretty decent rebound off the rim okay that’s two quite a bit shorter a little more weight still short little more weight still short my brain has not responded to the heirless still short little less short the ball is picking up there’s air there’s resistance I’m telling you I haven’t shot a single long shot with this ball and my brain refuses to make the adjustment regular ball regular ball so it’s if your brain is used to shooting a regular ball it’s going to be hard to reprogram to have this thing fly the same way I got to shoot it harder than I want to shoot it like harder like I feel like that’s going to hit glass I’ve obviously not shot a ton here but I think there’s a clear difference like I’ve got to mentally adjust each time I grab this to try to figure out the weight and I don’t mean the weight in hand but the weight relative to the resistance through air Its Behavior is definitely different in Flight more so than during a bounce you can hear the air move through it on a bounce maybe not in this environment but you can hear a little whoosh but it doesn’t seem as significant as when the ball is in flight and towards the rim the biggest difference for me well obviously the threes this comes up short but after that it’s not the bounce it’s the texture like the feel especially when you’re out here you got the wood floor and everything is just clicking and this is such a confidence inspiring texture compared to this one which is just a little bit more slippery you’re not as convinced in your grip that particular challenge seems POS possible to overcome if you wrap it in a similar material to this all of a sudden now your feel could be similar well your shooting might change too if you can figure out the weight ratio because more air is going to be moving around the outside like a bladder on the inside of a ball as opposed to air moving through it it won’t look nearly as cool obviously and there’s a reason they called it gen one durability here looks a lot better whatever this new material they sent over is with the Black Version we’ve been playing with it for a while here and it’s intact now what I use it on an outdoor Court uh like a $2500 basketball out on the concrete would not advise I think for most people this is an artifact this is a collector’s item but it’s kind of cool when you have a collector’s item that actually is somewhat functional and that’s what the Gen one is
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