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Cheating Gets High-Tech With the Remote-Controlled Bowling Ball
What do you get the sports fan who wants to bowl 300 without practicing? Try the RC900, a remote-control bowling ball invented by Texas-based 900 Global. The product is being marketed to children and those unable to bowl because of physical limitations.
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| Questions for Snowboarding (and Wii) Superstar Shaun White We sat down for a one-on-one interview with Shaun White to discuss making the upcoming Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage video game, designing safer snowboard set-ups and his love/hate relationship with Carrot Top.
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| The Running Shoe Debate: How Barefoot Runners are Shaping the Shoe Industry A group of running rebels are shedding their shoes and reporting years of injury-free miles. Others go so far as to say running shoes are in fact causing injuries. If shoes are doing damage, just what are the companies measuring?
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| Alex Rodriguez's Drug of Choice: A Close Look at Primobolan and Its Effects There's been lots of talk of how the Yankees' superstar third baseman has affected his place in baseball history books, there has been little about the substance found. Here's a closer look at the drug—Primobolan—that A-Rod was reportedly taking.
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| 5 Trends from the Ski and Snowboard Industry Trade Show The Snowsports Industries America Trade Show is the largest trade show for the ski and snowboard industry in the U.S.. PM was there, scouting out the top technological and engineering trends in the industry. Here are six that aren’t going away.
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| The Tech Behind the Football’s Broadcast-Only First Down Line The yellow first down line is so ingrained now that NFL junkies may be disappointed when a real game reminds them it’s just an effect. Allen St. John explains the origin of the little line that makes first downs stand out, and how it works.
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| Extreme Sledding: 4 Sled Tech Breakthroughs Tested PM tries out the latest in snow sled tech. In these tests we moved past the backyard toboggan and flexible flyer into sleds that handle stunts and powder. (Published in the January 2009 issue)
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| Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech PM asked snow experts to tell us what makes the best packing snow, how to build a solid snow fort and what tools you can use to dominate this winter.
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| With Makeshift Bat Cave, MLB to Scan Broken Wood for Fan Safety Recent seasons have seen the number of broken bats skyrocket, with splintered pieces of ash and maple sometimes flying into stands to injure fans. MLB-recruited scientists to crunch the numbers for solutions to keep stadiums safe.
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| 10 Steps in the High-Tech Evolution of Pro Football Helmets In this exclusive kickoff weekend excerpt from the new PM book How a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports, track the high-tech history of brain safety on the gridiron, from "head harnesses" to face masks.
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