Each year at Wimbledon, tennis’s most iconic tournament, roughly 55,000 balls are used. Once the tournament wraps up and Roger Federer and Serena Williams have taken their cuts, what happens to the balls? The majority are sold to fans as keepsakes. Some are turned into speakers.
You read correctly, hearO is a new Bluetooth speaker housed in a 2016 Wimbledon Championships tennis ball.
Designer Richard Moss grew up playing amateur tennis and though he never played professionally, he wanted to remain close to the game. “Tennis always stayed in my heart. While working as an engineer in London I started to reimagine how a championship tennis ball could live on,” said Moss in a statement.