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GPS Golf Balls Tell You Exactly Where They've Gone

by Peter Mychalcewycz on May 27, 2008 at 11:10 AM

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For many, a day on the golf course is a chance to leave the world behind, commune with nature and drink. Heavily. For others, it is a chance to vent and break things and curse a lot.

Geostate, a British company, doesn't want to change this at all. It justs wants you to be able to tell you where your ball is since you've worm-burned it into the nearest shrubbery. That would be the shrubbery between the white tees and the ladies tees, in case you were wondering. To accomplish this, the company has begun working on a GPS-enabled microchip that would allow a person to know how far and fast the ball has traveled, among other things. In other words, the same technology used to give people driving directions will now help people with their golf game.

This could be useful for people attempting to tweak their game, but one has to wonder where/if Geostate sees a broad market for this.

Of course, that's what they said about pet rocks.

Sigh. [Source: DailyMail]






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