Reminds me of the "shark skin" swimsuits that was a hot topic last summer olympics.

I could see this working. Look at the test they did on the mythbusters with the track car they actually added more weight in the form of a clay coating and then put dimples in it. It ran a faster time.

Anyone tried running in a vacuum? that would reduce air friction, but there might be a small problem with breathing....

This could be worth while in track and road bike racing!

I'm surprised this is not more common in cars. Maybe they are worried people don't like how it looks? Maybe a patent troll preventing it's use?

The effect at running speeds is small. There should be a considerable effect if the same were applied to the surface of vehicles. That is the contention of the people who produce "fuel fins" which have proven on the autobahn to increase mpg by 5%.

I'm sorry guys but this is a shamble. The reason golf balls have dimples is to trip the air flowing over the ball into turbulent flow. This decreases the drag coefficient, and therefore lowers drag to about half of the initial value. It is impossible for this tech to be effective as air flow over the human body is too slow and therefore would not be able to trip into turbulent flow. This would however not be the case for cyclists, motorbike helmets, suits etc. Respect to Nike for making money from over payed idiots and spoiled brats.

@Richard Greyling Given that we haven't even solved the Navier-Stokes equations, (regarding the comparatively simple case of incompressible fluids) your confidence in asserting the impossibility of the suit working seems a little strange unless you have personal experience working with full-body turbulence reducing suits.

sucker alert, people go a BLAZING 15mph. even swimmers shaving their legs is more for psychology than actual gains in speed. no aero needed. also my frisbee with these all over it is a peice of junk, leave it on golf balls. I've even heard an F1 aerodynamicist claim they are only useful for spherical applications like GOLF BALLS. so, ff, that's why no cars use them either also. if there was a patent troll then he'd own EVERY GOLF BALL also.

From a distance it looks like a "halftone" superhero costume. (Halftone is that newspaper printing technique that makes images from little dots.)