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Gyro-Balls
A gyro is enough to make any sport more interesting
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Whether it's a football that stands on end so that you can kick it without anybody holding it for you, or a baseball that doesn't curve at all until you hit it, gyros will make you gaming much more interesting. A golf ball could fly perfectly straight with a gyro. A basketball could be virtually impossible to shoot or steal since you couldn't really turn the ball with the tips of your fingers. It could make a good practical joke for any occasion where you are challenging a friend to a good old game of one on one.

Perhaps the gyro could be activated by a remote control that fits snuggly on your keychain or with a button on the ball itself.


quantum_flux, Sep 28 2007

trick golf balls http://www.orvis.co..._feeds*39026&bhcp=1
yep its been done [samosa_pirate, Sep 28 2007]

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       That "unputtable" golf ball doesn't have a gyro, they do that by offbalancing the center of mass. In fact none of those golf balls has a gyro.

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