In 1970, the first Adidas ball went black and white for high visibility for the first World Cup ever televised, but needed 32 panels to do so. By 2006 Adidas had the count down to 14 panels.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave President Donald Trump an Adidas soccer ball during a news conference last week in Helsinki – and the ball may have contained a transmitter chip.

The Adidas soccer ball Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to President Trump at their summit in Finland appears to contain a chip that can transmit information to nearby cellphones, Bloomberg ...