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Technology To Help You Play Pool While Drunk
Just ran across a patent application, titled Aiming Device for Billiard Cue, filed this month by Sen-Yung Liu of Taiwan. Essentially, it is a laser-guided device that can show you the path from the cue ball to the target ball, which actually sounds kind of hard to do. (How do you get a laser light to shine from one ball to the other without getting in the way? Apparently, make it parallel to the balls...)
There are other laser billiard guiding devices out there. Found one called CueSight.
No matter how you slice it, using such a device would HAVE to be cheating. Imagine going into a bar, betting on a game, and then pulling a guiding device out. You'd get your kneecaps busted. However, if you just want to manage to make a couple of shots after too many rounds of Slivovitz, this is your toy.
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