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giovedì 22 maggio 2008

The truth behind human sized hamster balls

***CAUTION*** The downright stupidity of this post might cause you permanent mind alterations or death.

Today I tried to verify a voice that I had heard somewhere. That would be that Googling for "human sized hamster ball" does not return any result... Well, in case you had heard the same voice yourself but a shadow of pride prevented you from looking for yourselves, i looked for you (don't worry for me, I have lost the last bits of reputation long ago).

For a start, as it was easy to predict, it is false that no result appears, results abund. What is true instead is that no result (in the first pages at least) is useful for anything more than acuing that shameful sense of desire for one of these marvels of plastic elegance.
You cannot have the simplest solution of all, that would be just a plexiglass sphere (perhaps with some hole for entering and ventilation), this seems absent altogether. On the contrary ther are a couple of inflatable options... read "quick to go flat, wrap around you and suffocate you", which would be nothing but the deserved ending for having even tought of using one. Sounds fair and perhaps cheap but no thanks. There is also a super hi tech human sized trackball mouse that could turn up as the funkyest way to frag after those spooky mind-reading controllers, but even if it really was for sale it is not what we are looking for right now (but let's keep the link warm for a later time).

Anyway, for the brave among you, here is the link of a company who makes such devices of doom... unfortunately I could not find any pricing on their products, and this could mean that the things are not only ridiculous and potentially murderous, but also blooddraining expensive... Too bad, I still want one, possibly a plexiglass one, but I fear that the only way to have it remains the good old acquire-on-sight ;)

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