tennis
Games
Wiimote Tennis Serve Trainer Won’t Make You Into Roger Federer
9:20PM John Herrman | The line between Wii games and the real-life activities they emulate is increasingly squiggly and faint, no thanks to people like this guy, who’s jury-rigged a tennis serve trainer out of his Wiimote. More »
Entertainment
3:16PM Nick Broughall | Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a TV network executive with a whole HD channel at my disposal, I’d make sure to fill it with HD content. After all, that ‘HD’ in the channel’s name does mean ‘High Definition’, not standard definition.
What I would not do is broadcast the exact same SD content on the HD channel, even if it was the Australian Open. But that’s exactly what Channel 7 are doing, starting today. Why? Because they hate you. More »
Channel 7’s HD Channel Playing The Australian Open In SD
3:16PM Nick Broughall | Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a TV network executive with a whole HD channel at my disposal, I’d make sure to fill it with HD content. After all, that ‘HD’ in the channel’s name does mean ‘High Definition’, not standard definition.
What I would not do is broadcast the exact same SD content on the HD channel, even if it was the Australian Open. But that’s exactly what Channel 7 are doing, starting today. Why? Because they hate you. More »
Gadgets
Tennis Racquet With Built-In Hand Dryer For Control Superfreaks
4:00AM Sean Fallon | If you suffer from a debilitating case of hand sweat while playing tennis, the folks at Control Freek are offering up a solution with their new air circulating tennis racquets. Using the latest is wiffle technology, Control Freek has cut some high tech holes in their handle and added scoops to trap and circulate air to your palms while you play. More »
Design
Lacoste Asks: How Will We Play Tennis In 2083?
11:10AM Sean Fallon | How will we play tennis in 2083? From the looks of things, Lacoste believes we will be in a virtual room with collapsible rackets and cool looking robotic suits. Although, I have to admit that the video after the break portrays it as more like a futuristic version of racquetball to me—but either way, it is a sport I could definitely get into. More »
Gadgets
Tennis Ball Howitzer Vs. Things You Find at a Grocery Store
12:40PM Wilson Rothman | Leave it to the geniuses at the NIT Physics Lab in Japan to build a cannon that fires ping-pong tennis balls at near-sonic 700 Km/h, annihilating cabbages, Coke bottles and what look like sundry colourfully packaged snack-food items. There’s no dramatic tension here, just the satisfaction of seeing the strong overpower the weak. Want more? Update: Some of you pointed out inconsistencies that, upon review, turned out were the result of me reading one thing and watching another, combining the two into one big idea. My apologies. More »
Prince’s Wii Sports Tennis Controller
4:30AM Jason Chen | Unlike the lousy plastic Wii tennis add-ons we’ve seen before, this Prince Wii Tennis add-on smells of authenticity. This is partly because Prince is a well known name in the Tennis industry, but it’s also partly because they used actual strings to construct the face of the racket. We’re not saying this is great or that it’s worth $14.99, but if you’re going to buy a Tennis racket for your living room reenactments of Prince of Tennis, you might as well buy it from Prince. [Kotaku] More »Serena Williams and HP Ads
9:30AM Brian Lam | More US Open / gadget combo posts. Here’s a new HP ad by Serena Williams. Fact: I recently discovered that these commercials were made on HP workstations at the Goodby Silverstein agency in SF, not Macs as I’d assumed all ad agencies do. This comes by way of an HP exec, but only the people at Goodby know for sure. Great ad, either way, especially when Serena tosses the competition away like a little gnat. More »Lonely Tenniscentric Transformer Wishes the US Open was Two Months Ago
5:45AM Adam Frucci | With the US Open in full swing here in NYC, tennis fever is sweeping the globe. Combining tennis fever and the quickly-waning Transformers fever, Sony Ericsson came up with this badass commercial featuring a transforming ball launcher. It’s too bad they’re advertising a phone rather than the robot, as the robot really puts the phone to shame. Hell, it gets more on-screen time in this ad than Ratchet does in the entire movie. [Prime's Diary] More »
