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it looks and feels like a regular basketball but this one has something to say the 9450 smart sensor basketball is designed to be digital coach in the shape of the basketball the 9450 smart sensor basketball by inpho motion sports aims to improve how players shoot and handle the ball as players run through drills to build muscle memory they constantly hear and see coaching tips through an app 9 sensors inside the ball in the bluetooth radio that speech to your smartphone are all designed to instantaneously measure the forces you put into it once you start getting that feedback now you can feel the right way of doing something rather than guessing the most difficult part of creating the basketball wasn't designing the technology but protecting it it's like taking your cell phone and throwing again it's a ground a half a million times a year and hoping it doesn't break have to have special engineering on the ball to get the sensors in there protect them make sure they don't break the ball charges on a wireless pad and sinks to a smartphone or tablet with four bounces while the technology is meant to impress the most jaw-dropping aspect may be the price more than ten times the price of a regular basketball when you compare it to what the alternatives are for learning if that is your goal it's actually an incredible value because it comes out about 40 cents a day you can use it every day whenever you want cnet senior editor brian Tong took the ball out for practice it's not like all of a sudden you give me Michael Jordan or LeBron James with this ball if you have bad form this ball is not going to necessarily help you but it will help you get that ball over the rim and into the hoop thanks coach in San Francisco I'm sumida cnet for CBS News you