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I remember playing foosball in junior high school, and I always had a problem playing one side on my own. One minute you’re setting up for a score off the three-man, and then the other guy makes a goalie shot while you weren’t expecting it.

Can you imagine playing on a foosball table that would require 11 players on each side?
This is just what designer and Amsterdam brewer Amstel set out to do with the Table Football XXL. I’m not certain whether Amstel meant to do this, but its creation coincides with the Eurpoean Champions League Finals.

As you may have guessed, this Table Football XXL is quite gigantic. As far as I now, it is not available for ordering. If it were, it would require six flight cases to ship to an American user.

You got to admit that it is very cool, and would be the piece de resistance at any sports bar. I wouldn’t mind playing one on one against someone on this, as it certainly be great exercise just to keep track of the ball. Playing with 22 players might be interesting, but I would expect a lot of the action to take place at certain spots. I can guarantee that the players on one end of the table will have no idea what is going on with the players on the other end.

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Say you have a pool in your backyard, and with summer coming round pretty soon it is time to jump in for a dip with that hottie you’ve picked up the night before. Why not make the entire experience more fun with the Two Person Water Lounger?

This is the inflatable 7 1/2′ diam. water lounger that allows two people to relax comfortably head-to-toe, facilitating conversation. It is made of durable 0.3 mm thick PVC that will withstand exuberant play, and has a removable, inflatable cooler located in the center of the craft that holds up to six 12 oz. cans of your preferred beverage and ice. A cup holder built into either side of the hull provides a convenient place for a drink, swim goggles, or sunglasses. Two inflatable, removable pillows snap onto the hull and remove easily. The lounger inflates in minutes using the included manual air pump; deflates quickly and stows unobtrusively for off-season storage.

Just watch your weight though, as this can support a maximum of 350 lbs. The Two Person Water Lounger will retail for $129.95.

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Now here’s a computer, the AlphaGrip that would put even the Eee PC to shame size-wise, although it won’t pack as much computing power as Asus’ offering in the first place. Featuring enough keys for ten finger touch typing, you get a trackball and stylus for easy navigation, boasting the capability to write straight onto the touchscreen. I guess this is good for standard note-taking purposes but won’t do very well in the corporate boardroom. Unfortunately, it is still in a concept stage and doesn’t look as though it will be a hit even when materialized, as it will occupy an extremely niche market. Better get a handsome tote bag to lug this around.

I’ve never figured out how people can go to sleep with the TV on. Unless I’m completely exhausted when falling into bed, the only thing the TV will do is keep me up even longer. I usually get interested in whatever is on and just end up watching the whole thing. I also don’t like complete silence, so I opt to keep a fan running in my bedroom. If you’re looking for something a little more fancy to keep a little noise going in your bedroom while keeping it fairly quiet, then check out the SleepMate.

The SleepMate uses white noise which will help cancel out noises in your bedroom. While it won’t likely won’t help with neighbors banging on the wall, it should keep most quieter noises from reaching your ears. You can pick one of these up for $49.95.

Source: GeekAlerts

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Plug your PC into a wall electrical outlet, and that’s all your need to surf the web at high speeds. Tell the cable and DSL service providers where they can stuff their plugs, while you ride the wave of yet another next-generation technology at cheaper prices.

Well…not yet.

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the concept of broadband over power line (BPL), which the Federal Communications Commission has been touting since 2003 as possible pricing competition for cable and DSL providers. It’s only a pilot program in a handful of cities, but the FCC commissioned studies on the technology and wanted an accelerated rollout of the program. Now you can scratch one of those cities off the list, while the FCC studies themselves are being attacked by amateur radio operators.

Some two million internet customers in Dallas will not be getting BPL after all, according to the Dallas Morning News. Current Communications, which was providing Web service to DirecTV customers in the North Texas city, will sell its lines and equipment to Oncor for $90 million. And Oncor tells the paper it has no desire to get into the BPL business.

This comes on the heels of an April 25 federal judge’s ruling that sided with the Amateur Radio Relay League, the advocacy group for home-based radio operators. The group sued the FCC; it claims BPL, which relies on radio waves, will interfere with its part of the spectrum. The ARRL doesn’t like the way the FCC is conducting itself (so to speak) with its power line study findings, and a judge agreed.

The lesson so far? Fight the power, not the power technology. No one should fear new technologies or competition, especially if they can offer convenience and affordability at the push of a plug into an outlet. But the spectre of cutting corners won’t help consumers or the small yet vocal minority of amateur radio enthusiasts who help out their neighbors during emergencies.

Read [Dallas Morning News] Read [Amateur Radio Relay League] Read [Utilities Telecom Council]

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If someone asked you which was dirtier, your toilet seat or your keyboard, which would you guess? My money would definitely be on the keyboard. Not because I’m filthy and never wash my hands, but because one’s hands come in contact with all sorts of things over the course of a day. As a result, any bacteria would get transferred to the keys we all spend so much time pushing. My guess has been confirmed by Which? Magazine in the UK which found that our keyboards are a lot more disgusting than most of us think.

The test was conducted on 33 keyboards in a single office. Of the keyboards was found to have 150 times the acceptable limit of bacteria, which came out to be roughly 5 times dirtier than the average toilet seat. Two others had what they called “warning” levels of bacteria. Probably the most disturbing were the two with elevated levels of coliform, which is usually found with feces. I’m sure by now you’re beginning to wonder when exactly the last time was that you actually cleaned your keyboard. For safe measures, I’d go ahead and clean it now.

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