Deysi prototypes a ball to play soccer at night, based on an idea sent to Design Squad. Deysi prototypes a ball to play soccer at night, based on an idea sent in to the Design Squad website by ...

designers used a wind tunnel to create a highly calibrated soccer ball of optimal roundness and stable flight. But how much is the game influenced by player skill versus ball design? "If you have ...

Every year the newest version of the World Cup soccer ball causes a stir. Now physicists have put those balls to the test, to see just how well they fly. Will this change in design make a ...

In abstract (graph theory) terms, you can think of this new soccer ball design as a truncated octahedron, a form made up of eight hexagonal faces and six square faces. Mathematics, however ...

You can catch up on the efforts at creating a new World Cup soccer ball design at the Physorg.com site: Leland was Editor-in-Chief of Machine Design. He has 34 years of Service and holds a B.S ...

Brazuca’s design ensures that the ball knuckles not at 50 mph, but about 30 mph. Typical, polygon-tiled soccer balls also knuckle around 30 mph. Of course, spinning the ball changes its ...

After The New York Times published an awesome interactive on the history of soccer ball design this weekend, we decided to take a look at each ball in succession—drawing from World Cup Balls ...

Early soccer balls were hand-sewn and ... Team captains chose a ball before each match, and every team had a preferred design, according to Peter Pesti, a collector and expert on World Cup balls.

The Current's producer Liz Hoath brings us the story behind the soccer ball. For as long as humans have had legs, they have been kicking around some form of a soccer ball.

And, for soccer (er ... wrapping the ball that's intended to make air flow around it instead of gripping its surface. The brand compares the features of this ball design to the dimples on a ...

For its recent “My Football Kit” project, Japanese design firm nendo has designed a modular soccer ball comprised of 54 interlocking pieces which aims to be more durable and portable than its ...