Forget contacting potential clients and organizing your life. For me, LaserCue is what personal technology is all about. This tiny, black, extremely scary-looking tube, which mounts on a pool cue like a scope, projects a solid-state laser through a collimating and line-generating lens. The effect? A bright laser beam down the axis of the cue, across the cue ball, and directly onto your target. The result? A better, tighter stroke and, ultimately, a better game as the amateur pool player learns to make the cue ball follow the projected line directly to the target.
The beam reveals any unwanted lateral moves during drawback, forward-thrust, and stroke. If the beam is wobbling around, so is the cue, and you won't strike the cue ball squarely; a steady beam means a smooth stroke.
Even with the slight difficulty in getting the clamp device mounted (a snug, slide-on scheme would work better), LaserCue is easily the coolest in-your-face gadgetry accouterment since the pearl-handled switchblade. And it's sure to have an equal effect on your adversary.
LaserCue: US$159. Lyte Optronics Inc.: (800) 255 9133, + 1 (310) 450 8551.
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