Useless Gadgets and Cool Gizmos » soccer balls http://damp-dry.com More pretty useless information Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:04:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Hi Tech Soccer Balls http://damp-dry.com/2009/for-play/hi-tech-soccer-balls/ http://damp-dry.com/2009/for-play/hi-tech-soccer-balls/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 16:57:01 +0000 dd http://damp-dry.com/2009/for-play/hi-tech-soccer-balls/ soccer ball goes hi techThe Addidas company created a soccer ball designed to take out any questions, and maybe a bit of fun, out of calls made by football referees.These hi tech, chip-embedded soccer balls are supposed to alert referees by way of radio signals when soccer balls go over the goal line. The sensors on the soccer ball send the signal to special watches that are worn by referees telling them that the ball did in fact cross the goal line. Future drunken arguments in European bars may be over faulty sensors and not faulty vision. 

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]]> http://damp-dry.com/2009/for-play/hi-tech-soccer-balls/feed/ 0 Soccer House http://damp-dry.com/2009/large-things/soccer-house/ http://damp-dry.com/2009/large-things/soccer-house/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:29:02 +0000 dd http://damp-dry.com/2009/large-things/soccer-house/ Show the world you’re a fan and live in your own soccer ball. Yes, you can. Or at lest you can in Japan where I believe this home is. This house is called Baria’s Soccer Ball Home. The house is consoccer housestructed like a soccer ball would be out of 32 panels that make up a room or living space.Problem is, if you want more than a 1 room house, the thing will stop looking like a soccer ball and maybe resemble a hamster trail because each 32 panel ball is only 1 room and a full home with multiple rooms needs to be constructed of multiple balls put together.

Normally soccer balls are made of PVC, leather and other soft materials. In this case, the soccer ball is made of 32 panels of steel reinforced, glass fiber fabric. I also hear that the steel reinforced, glass fiber fabric is available in all sorts of colors, just in case the standard black and white wasn’t cool enough.  Popular Soccer

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