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The Pool Table That Levels Itself In Rough Seas

Posted February 13, 2012 8:39 AM

From Crave: gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff. - CNET:

Some things don't make sense. At least to one's eyes.So when I saw the YouTube video I've embedded, I wondered whether it could possibly be real. Yet this purports to be a pool table on a cruise ship in rough water.

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02/13/2012 8:44 AM

It doesn't seem to improve the player's accuracy.
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02/13/2012 9:18 AM

Yeah, right.

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02/13/2012 12:33 PM

Balls 1-15 side pocket !

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02/14/2012 7:50 AM

The captain was playing pool and didn't notice.
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02/14/2012 8:24 AM

How do alcoholic drinks get served on Italian cruise liners?

On the rocks...

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02/14/2012 8:26 AM

I think the rocks are added after the drinks. :)
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02/14/2012 12:44 PM

So does the coin slots go on the moving part or the leveling part. Man, if you had a few drinks into the game you'd never be able to get the quarters in the slots.

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02/15/2012 4:31 PM

Now if they could just apply some technology to make the legs of the Diamond Smart Tables self adjust I could shoot on a level table every time ... Then again if this happened what would I blame when I missed

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