In Case You Win the Lottery

With the nation firmly in the grip of lottery fever as the ridiculously high Powerball jackpot cruises past the $500 million mark, I thought I should appeal to any potential winners that I might know. After all, lottery directors estimate there is a 60% chance of someone winning tomorrow. If you win and end up with lots of money to burn right before Christmas, my requested Christmas gift will only set you back about $15,000 or so. That would be like buying a Happy Meal to the winner.

The present I am talking about is a tennis ball machine called the "Boomer". Here is where this one is different, you can play out points with it! I read an article today on Tennis.com about it and is crazy! It uses a camera system to judge the trajectory, speed and location of your shot (think HawkEye) and adjusts its reply accordingly. It can concede points on clean winners and will also trash talk you when it wins points! That's right folks, a trash talking tennis robot! I've lost to plenty of players that I would call "machines" but this would be the real deal. It plays anywhere from NTRP 2.0 all the way to 7.0 (pro caliber). Instead of listening to Federer's robotic press conference banter, I could be on court getting smack talked by a real robot! The only thing that would make this better is if the name was cooler. I'm thinking like "Tennis Terminator" or something along those lines. Here is the original article if you want to know more:

Boomer Machine

"I'll let the racquet do the talking."
          -John McEnroe