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Cheating Gets High-Tech With the Remote-Controlled Bowling Ball
Popular Mechanics ^
| 11/05/09
| Alex Hutchinson
Posted on 11/06/2009 8:18:53 AM PST by Reaganesque
What do you get the sports fan who wants to bowl 300 without practicing? Try the RC900, a remote-control bowling ball invented by San Antonio, Texas-based 900 Global. The bowler steers the ball by adjusting the position of a weight screwed onto a threaded shaft inside the ball.
The product is being marketed to young children and those unable to bowl because of physical limitations. The ball itself is surprisingly nimble, as evidenced by a user-submitted video (see below) in which one of them slaloms smoothly around four chairs set up along the lane before striking the headpin. Of course, no one ever said a perfect game was cheap; 900 Globals ball retails for $1500.
TOPICS: Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ball; bowling; control; remote
OK, that's going on my Christmas wish list! LOL!
To: Reaganesque
MARK IT ZERO!
To: Reaganesque
Cheater in chief
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:22:32 AM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:23:56 AM PST
by
Malsua
To: Reaganesque
I have to steer it by remote control myself? Call me when I can get a laser guided one or (even better) a GPS guided one.
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:24:03 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Any similarity between V and the Obama admin is just that of Obama and any other totalitarian regime)
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:25:15 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama
Check out the image on the left: is that a “Made in U.S.A.” I see? Impossible.
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:28:01 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Reaganesque
POtuS will probably get one to improve his scores in the WH bowling alley.
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:59:11 AM PST
by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
To: 1rudeboy
Don’t tell Willie or Dennis.
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posted on
11/06/2009 8:59:27 AM PST
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
It’s not “real” manufacturing, anyway.
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posted on
11/06/2009 9:00:08 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Reaganesque
I wonder how long it’ll be ‘til this is weaponized?
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posted on
11/06/2009 10:00:40 AM PST
by
pa_dweller
(Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:... Isa 1:23)
To: 1rudeboy
My bet’s he’s sold the patents to the chicoms already...
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