Christian Laettner

I played some ping pong with the guys on the T'Wolves team. I might have been the champ on that team, too. But ping pong is a big part of my life. I grew up playing it against my brother and my father when I was young. They used to kick my behind for a long time, so I got very good at it.

American Athlete

Douglas Rushkoff

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

American Journalist

Jonny Bairstow

You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.

English Athlete

Robin Marantz Henig

Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.

Writer

Goldie

My life's like a sonar ping that bounces all over the place.

British Musician

Marv Albert

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.

American Celebrity

Ali Krieger

I have to win, even if I'm just playing ping pong.

Judah Friedlander

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

American Actor

Al Horford

Dominican Basketball Player

Kristaps Porzingis

Latvian Athlete

Indicates an action is complete or alerts the user.

Alerting Sound

Used informally to suggest sending a quick message or update.

Casual Communication

Remember it's a technical term for testing network connections.

Technical Reminder

Suggests troubleshooting or checking connectivity in a network.

Technical Diagnosis

Implies a prompt or brief message rather than a long conversation.

Quick Notification

Often used in casual or informal contexts among friends or colleagues.

Less Formal

Describes the high-pitched sound produced by a light, sharp impact.

Sound of Impact

 To understand the rest of the story, you have to understand that our brains are slow. What you would like is that when light hits your eye, then -- ping! -- immediately you have a perception of what the world is like. But it doesn't work that way. It takes about a tenth of a second for your perception to be created.

Why do we see illusions?...

 and I think I've kind of lived through the heyday of intensive care. It's been a ride, man. This has been fantastic. We have machines that go ping. There's many of them up there. And we have some wizard technology which I think has worked really well, and over the course of the time

Peter Saul: Let's talk...

 but even our own bodies are radioactive enough to disturb this experiment. So they go deep inside mines to find a kind of environmental silence that will allow them to hear the ping of a dark matter particle hitting their detector. And I went to see one of these experiments,

Anil Ananthaswamy: What...

 battery and the reason they so big is that that battery doesn't last forever and it doesn't even operate all the time it sends a ping art every sort of you know so time to pings say six o'clock in the morning every day it'll send a ping and give a position as to where the

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 seeing these in the world so I love digital animation but I'm hoping there's kids out there and they're looking at their mom's coat some ping pong balls and they're gonna go I can make a character out of that thank you guys I was incredible yeah so um are you

Life lessons from a...

 Taiwanese gourmet who can turn the most exotic fare into a delicacy fit for an emperor it is chef ping Ching Cho mr. Cho may be Taiwan's most highly respected chef and tonight he will host a very unusual dinner for some very

Would You Eat Bull...

 We are connecting these women drivers on a national network where they can reach out to each other for support and to share experiences. And not just that. She can actually ping another driver in her vicinity

My Long Walk Across...

 over and I see ping pong balls in the air I said wow tables sometimes you come out of work and there you have the tables then like your buddies they're

United by Ping Pong,...

 it lives only here where the sand grains are so perfectly dry and polished that they flow almost like water it's no bigger than a ping pong ball

The Blind Assassin of...

 the size of a ping pong ball the desert rain frog