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Monday, May 18, 2009

Shockball 

Loyal citizen David Boyle alerts us to the Shockball, a non-tauntable electrosphere undoubtedly popular in Junior Citizen creches:
Shockball is basically catch for the brave and the hard. This red metal-studded ball contains a hidden wickedness -- that is rather given away by the name. Turn it on and then start throwing it to one another, and at some random point in the all-too-near future, the person catching it will get zapped. You never know when it's going to 'go live,' so it turns Catch on its head - instead of worrying whether or not you can catch the ball, now you'll worry about what will happen if you catch the ball. This rubber-coated landmine has been the cause of lots of shrieks in the office -- though oddly, they seem to come before the person's even caught the thing. There's nothing like a bit of anticipatory fear to spice up a game!
Needs two AAA batteries (not included). Price 15 British pounds. Not for sale in USA (boo!).

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