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Obscura CueLight Pool Table Is $US200,000 Worth Of Fancy
7:30AM Adam Frucci | If you like being distracted by projections and badass animations while you play pool, the Obscura CueLight is for you. It uses sensors and an overhead projector to create images that follow the balls as they bang around the table. More »
Robots
Deep Green Pool-Playing Robot Ready To Hustle And Terminate
8:14PM Danny Allen | What IBM’s Deep Blue computer is to Chess, Deep Green may soon be to the felt table. The impressive system of cameras and robotic gantries, from the computer vision lab at Queens University, is already at a “better-than-amateur level”. More »
Gadgets
3:30AM Sean Fallon | Hurricane Billiards makes some of the best custom tables anywhere, and this version entitled “Unique Autosports” is no exception. It looks better than my car I can tell you that much. More »
Automotive Pool Table Would Make For An Interesting Driving Experience
3:30AM Sean Fallon | Hurricane Billiards makes some of the best custom tables anywhere, and this version entitled “Unique Autosports” is no exception. It looks better than my car I can tell you that much. More »
Gadgets
Electric Massage Chair For Your Pool: What Could Go Wrong?
9:40AM Sean Fallon | What better way to usher in the summer by rolling the dice with a floating lounger with a built-in iPod dock, speakers anda 3-mode massage function? More »
Design
Leather Cue Bench is the Classy Way to Store Your Billiards Gear
7:00AM Adrian Covert | If I had a pool table in my apartment (which I definitely don’t), I wouldn’t want pool cues, balls and all that other stuff constantly in plain sight. Enter the leather cue bench. More »
Games
5:20PM Nick Broughall | Forget for a minute the fact that cleaning this Australian-made and designed pool table would be an absolute bitch and just admire its gorgeous industrial styling. Created from the ground up by Adelaide-based Industrial designer Craig Nottage and featuring a glass table topped with a patented transparent surface called Vitrik which mimics traditional felt, the G-1 table is as stunning as a pool table is ever likely to find. Watching sunken balls work their way through the ball return is mesmerising, as you can see in the clip below. More »
Stunning Glass-Top Pool Table Dazzles With Its Design And Pricetag
5:20PM Nick Broughall | Forget for a minute the fact that cleaning this Australian-made and designed pool table would be an absolute bitch and just admire its gorgeous industrial styling. Created from the ground up by Adelaide-based Industrial designer Craig Nottage and featuring a glass table topped with a patented transparent surface called Vitrik which mimics traditional felt, the G-1 table is as stunning as a pool table is ever likely to find. Watching sunken balls work their way through the ball return is mesmerising, as you can see in the clip below. More »
Gadgets
Lasers, Cameras and Mirrors Turn You Into a Pool Shark
6:15AM Adam Frucci | Do you suck at pool? Well, this fancy system involving lasers and cameras shows you exactly where each ball on the table will go depending on where you’re pointing the cue. More »
Deals
Disappearing Pool Table Adds Secret Agent Awesomeness To Your Game Room
4:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | Everybody knows that no real bachelor pad is complete without a pool table, but if you want f@$#ing awesome bachelor pad status, you gotta have it rise from the floor James Bond-style. This ridiculous mod uses a side-sliding trap door in the floor and a hydraulic lift to make a pool table appear where there was none before. Wooooweee, is that your pool cue or are you just happy to see me? [Ballerhouse -Thanks A.J.!]
Gadgets
JM Billiard Round Pool Table Has a Stripper Pole Attachment
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Rectangular pool tables? Sounds great, gramps, but why don’t you come join us ballers in the 21rst century and have a little fun? Today it’s all about round tables with custom add-ons, like stripper poles, which is exactly what California-based JM Billiards is doing with their one-of-a-kind models. When the balls aren’t sinking your way, toss ‘em aside and take out the ones, because the night’s going to get interesting. Just don’t try to do both activities at the same time, because eight-inch heels and 8-balls just don’t go well together. And yeah, I’m still talking about playing pool. Deviants. More »
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