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Table Tennis Tomorrow

App enabled trainerbots, projected interactive realtime data visualizations, radically redesigned bamboo paddles and a beautiful hardwood table that isn’t out-of-place out of the basement?  Yeah, ping pong is about to level up. I feel like I’ve been seeing a lot of great table tennis innovation recently and so I thought it could use a little spotlight.  Here […]

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J. L. Lawson & Co. Spinning Tops

I love spinning tops.  Their origins lost in antiquity they are a toy humanity has enjoyed for millennia. If you’ve only ever played with cheap poorly balanced tops then likely you won’t understand the interest.  But watching a well crafted top spin, seemingly defying gravity for minutes at a time, spinning so smoothly it actually looks […]

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