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some people are born to play basketball others are less skilled but advances in wearable technology may offer hope for the hopeless like me this sleeve is embedded with sensors that can boost your basketball game we can actually model how the ball is gonna you know the trajectory of the ball as it leaves your hand the wearable device was developed by vibrato technologies a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University the goal is for you to shoot more consistently and have good form to do that the sleeve uses three sensor modules one on the bicep a second on the forearm a third on the back of the hand little small sensor nodes each sensor node has a 3-axis gyroscope 3-axis accelerometer and a 3-axis compass and so that can very accurately detect where it is in space using that data a speaker built into the sleeve provides immediate feedback a buzz signals poor form but after a good shot there's a victory tone a companion app drills into the data further telling you the exact angle of your wrist the height of your arm and more we're gonna do is say the one thing you need to do is work on gain that wrist through or the one thing you need to do is keep it elbow in we want to give you the one concrete thing that'll make you a better performance vibrato says all athletes whether kids are pros stamped benefit it's already tapped youth basketball coach Derek Thompson to test the technology his take the sleeve is a slam dunk and experiences is off the chart I have muscle memory now of course basketball also requires solid if not fancy footwork so vibrato future plans include a leg sleeve as well as a full body suit that would work for other sports the sleeve is expected to cost around $200 and start selling in late 2014 I'll just put my hoop dreams on hold when in San Francisco I'm Sumi das Cena for CBS News you