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Two thousand zero gravity ping pong balls. Not something that you normally see. In 2010,Science Bob and 30 other teachers made this happen. It was part of Northrop Grumman Foundation’s Weightless Flights of Discovery program. Zero gravity ping pong has always been a dream of Uberpong and having seen this, we want to make this a reality! Weightless…
Ever asked yourself the question: how are table tennis balls made? Same here! The Uberpong brand focuses on the future of table tennis but if we see something that stands out in history, we like to feature it on the blog. And how do they get them to stick together to maintain a perfectly smooth spherical shape? Here’s…
The search is on for the new Uberpong headquarters in Austin, Texas. Due to the tremendous success of our Kickstarter campaign, enquiries from people in Austin and the need to bring the Uberpong ping pong community together, we are looking for a work/ping pong space. Here is the criteria of what we are looking for: –…
Ai Fukuhara is a Japanese table tennis player who won a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She began playing aged 3 and only two years later appeared on a Japanese TV show playing against the host and just beating him. What is brilliant in this video is her clear passion for ping pong….
Many believe that Joseph Johnson inspired Isaiah Mustafa to raise his game in the Old Spice “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercials. Joseph doesn’t just play ping pong…he reinvents the game. Here is his trademark ‘Behind The Back’ serve that we captured at our recent Uberpong night in Austin, Texas: Joseph also has a…
Ping pong and robots are becoming best friends. Whether it is a robot trying to play ping pong against a human or a robot playing another robot, technology has enabled humanoids to transcend from the virtual to the real world. Researchers at the University of Colorado have developed tiny robots inside ping pong balls that…
Over the last few days I have had several friends post the viral Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks video on my Facebook timeline. The frequency of posts would suggest this is a new advertising campaign but the video has actually been around since 2008. Strangely, Nokia’s N96-model phone is the product being flogged…
Bittereinder release Kwaad Naas featuring Shane Durrant from Desmond and The Tutus. Having seen ping pong inspired music videos by Orange Caramel and Operator Please, Bittereinder’s techno effort is certainly on a par. Appearing like a cross between Fedde Le Grand’s Put Your Hands Up For Detroit and Kevin Bacon’s Flashdance, the video subtly mocks the 80s headband adorning players who arguably…
Playful Ping Pong Pavilion is a joint project of architecture students at Montana State University and Oxford Brookes University. It was part of the London Festival of Architecture, designed and built by students of Christopher Livingston at MSU and Harriet Harriss, senior lecturer in architecture at Oxford Brookes University, The table is designed for people to play around…
Notre Dame introduced the US to “Trick Shot Monday” – a segment on ESPN where college football players try to throw ping pong balls into cups having ricocheted off different surfaces. Viral videos are a dime a dozen but a 9 year old Tom Spicer’s ping pong ball trick shots certainly caught our eye. Whether…