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Giz Gadgets: Can Gadgets Improve Your Health (Or Lifestyle)?
Each new week brings with it an abundance of new gadgets — whether devised by tech giants like Google and Samsung or pushed by hopeful entrepreneurs to Kickstarter, they run the gamut from useful to niche to tech that nobody really needs. This week we’re looking at gadgets that are designed to help you live…
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Daredevils Jump Out Of Plane, Play Quick Game Of Quidditch Before Landing
Quidditch is a real sport, adapted by Middlebury College students for non-magical players on the ground. However, a team has gone and shown us that it’s entirely possible to play the game while in the air: while skydiving.
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Basketball Dunks Are Better When Swinging From A Bridge
Video: Forget using a trampoline to up your dunking game like some half-time NBA mascot. Go find yourself a bridge over a lazy river like the Dunking Devils did, attach a swing and a hoop and you’ll be pulling off dunks like the NBA All-Star game has never seen before.
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Making Traditional Wooden Lacrosse Sticks
Video: Here’s how a traditional wooden lacrosse stick gets made. You get to see how it’s done from the search for the right type of hickory tree; to the splitting of the wood into halves, quarters and eighths; to the steaming, bending, knitting and everything in between. It’s actually a humble process to make a…