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Adidas Launches miCoach Smart Ball

Adidas Launches miCoach Smart Ball images: ADIDAS 

Adidas has launched the miCoach Smart Ball, a high-tech soccer ball that helps players perfect their technique.

Adidas has created a sophisticated piece of training technology that lets soccer players record their kicks and get training tips and challenges to improve their performance. The Adidas miCoach Smart Ball is an app-enabled football equipped with sensor technology for soccer training. Players can use it to improve their technique with free kicks, penalties, long passes, goal kicks, corners and shooting.

The Smart Ball contains a small bundle of sensors that capture data on ball spin, impact points, strike accuracy and power, and visual flight trajectories. Players get near-instant feedback on their iOS devices via the miCoach Smart Ball app, which also lets them share their results online. The data the ball provides lets players know whether or not their kicks are on target.

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The miCoach Smart Ball app acts as a virtual coach. It provides players with tutorials and challenges in a dedicated training section. The players are challenged to strike the ball within a certain speed or to kick it around a virtual wall. The Smart Ball uses data analysis to help players develop and improve their game, which will be particularly useful to young players and those playing in recreational leagues, not just to pros.

The Smart Ball feels and reacts like a normal regulation size 5 football, but is significantly more durable. The integrated sensor package, placed in the centre of the ball, is able to analyse the forces affecting the ball in flight, and then it uses algorithms to collect all the relevant data and send it to the user's iOS device. The device can also predict and visualise the complete path of the football.

Watch the video to see the Smart Ball at play.

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