Little kids have trouble getting the ball through the hoop. Not with this one.

The basket has a couple of cameras, a processor and some very fast hydraulics, allowing the basket to swoop out and net the ball if it comes anywhere within 3 feet of being a basket.

Happy kids and something really cool for the spectators to watch, while watching kids' basketball matches.
-- UnaBubba, Dec 28 2007

And, using the same technology... Hippo_27s_20Silent_20Dodgy_20Chimes
[hippo, Dec 28 2007]

5` diameter hoop and no hydraulics?
-- david_scothern, Dec 28 2007


Probably still too high, [d-s].
-- UnaBubba, Dec 28 2007


Hmm. 5' diameter hoop, metal coated basketball and immensely powerful electromagnet?
-- david_scothern, Dec 28 2007


Trying not to imagine that Eugene kid, hanging from hoop by his dental braces... fails.
-- UnaBubba, Dec 28 2007


Very similar, [hippo], very similar.
-- UnaBubba, Dec 28 2007


The real fun would come when a wise guy kid reverses the programming on the hoop so it always moved out of the way whenever his little brother tried to shoot the ball.
-- hooande, Dec 29 2007


/Trying not to imagine .../

At least that way, the little kid left in defence has a chance to get in on the act; every time the opposition shoot, he rises majestically towards the hoop for a near-perfect denial.
-- david_scothern, Dec 29 2007



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