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Smart Bowling Ball for Advanced Cheats

Posted January 11, 2010 9:34 AM

From Newlaunches.com:

Now a sport doesn't always have to be played fair, no? Or does it? Well, as long as we have some smart chaps coming up with ideas like the Smart Bowling Ball, you really cannot make an excuse to play fair. Designed by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, this bowling ball, contains aluminum tubes in the finger holes, that help the ball gauge the force applied by the bowler. This helped scientist Franz Fuss notice that the most successful bowlers are those who pinched the ball with "much greater force prior to the release". Well, bowling will be so much more fun now. There won't be that odd, endless moment when the ball rolls noisily in the gutter as your girl looks at you with shameful eyes.

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Re: Smart Bowling Ball for Advanced Cheats

01/11/2010 6:33 PM

The ball was designed to improve training and cannot be used for competition. Larger grip force in better bowlers is well known to coaches; only until now they were not able to measure it for purposes of advanced performance analysis.

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01/12/2010 4:51 AM

What I need to improve my game is a ball with radio control so that I can steer it to where I was aiming instead of the random place it hits the pins.

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Re: Smart Bowling Ball for Advanced Cheats

01/12/2010 6:09 AM

How's this for an idea; how about having a giroscope
(or counter balancing weight) inside the ball to maintain
the line of the bowling? (No more gutters, unless aimed for!)

Just give the ball a spin (A counter balance weight would not
need a spin.) before bowling to start the giro effect, and, as long
as the ball's aimed right, then whaha, a straight line hit every time!

All we have to do now is put "sights" on the ball and who could miss!

Full royalties please!

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