Halo Ball is a new game similar to basketball that utilizes a "floating hoop" so players can score 360 degrees around the goal.

After designing a curved basketball backboard that redirects every shot through the hoop, Shane Wighton has engineered a new and improved version that’s even more forgiving by actively tracking ...

In a 16-minute video, Wighton gets into the technical details of how he made the robotic basketball hoop work and how he fixed bugs. Here are some of the highlights, and a video of how it all works.

A few weeks ago, [Shane Wighton] created a basketball backboard which made it impossible to miss a shot even remotely close to the hoop. As a passive device, though, the backboard had its limits. S… ...

After thinking about it for months, Robinson decided to get the boy, 11-year-old Elijah Maines, a new basketball and hoop – the best her money could buy – and had the hoop installed while the ...