Category: Sport
The pool table made out of a VW campervan
Outstanding. No idea who made it, how much it costs, or whether VW will do the decent thing and start mass-manufacturing these. But it’s from Ohio, its owner paid the previous owner $8,000 for it, and you can store your balls beneath its engine flap.
Want want want.
Sky HD reveal the worst ever football kits of all time
With the Premiership kicking off this Saturday, Sky is proudly boasting about all the matches it’s squeezed money out of its subscribers to be able to show in high definition.
They’ve also found time to compile the top 10 worst football kits of all time, based on a survey of one thousand UK footie fans.
In first place is the 1992-93 season home shirt for Hull City, whose creator took their “tigers” nickname too literally.
In second place, the infamous grey “our players are camouflaged” 95-96 away strip for Manchester United, which was blamed for their 3-1 defeat at Southampton.
In third place, a variety of strips used by Mexico in the 1990s.
Read on for four to ten.
SoundBall: the Bluetooth football that goes BLEEP and BLOOP when you kick it
God bless Aleksei Stevens, who's an expert in "instrumental and electroacoustic composition" according to his website. What's that? I'm not sure, but it's involved making something called the SoundBall – a football that when kicked or moved makes noises that are a cross between Pong and an old-skool Doctor Who episode.
The football boots that stamp fertilizer into the pitch
Let’s be honest: the pitch at the new Wembley Stadium is a bit of a dog. It cuts up rough with every slide tackle, leaving divots all over the place, and impeding England’s scintillating passing tactics like… Oh.
CueSight Laser-Sighted Pool Cues
While the laser-sighted pool cue may look cool to geeks, taking this into any purist pool hall is a great way to get stomped. The cue has a small crosshairs projector in its tip, which places a big red X on the white cueball. The better your aim, the bigger the X. The creators, CueSight, have thoughtfully provided video of the laser-sighted pool cue in action so you can see exactly how it makes robots of us all. $150. [GT]
CueSight laser-sighted pool cue (via Coolest Gadgets)
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