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Touch rugby sounds about as crazy as no-hands basketball, but leave it to some Kiwis to make it happen. Rush Rugby is both a product and a sport, developed and promoted by the new company PlaySmart. Tackles are made by a high-tech version of two-hand touch, where sensors on opposite sides of a player's shirt must be tagged within a short time period for a player to be down. The shirt lights up and makes noise when a player is tackled.

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We're betting that recently fired head football coach Tommy Bowden would not have been a fan of Clemson's new iTiger technology. When your team is expected to compete for the national title and starts the year 3-3, allowing fans to send emails to the coach's show during the game isn't going to help morale. iTiger is a website accessible from wireless devices within Clemson's stadium that will allow fans to watch video, order food and, yes, submit questions to the coach. Lucky for Bowden, the "submit a question" feature was not enabled during his 20-17 loss to Maryland.

Not many men can convince their wives to sacrifice the coffee table in their shoebox-sized apartment and replace it with a foosball table. But what if the coffee table was the foosball table?

Any space in your golf bag next to the nine-iron? Here are two clubs that can offer a truly unique dynamic to your next 18 holes -- and they neatly complement each other! Introducing the Kooler Klub and the UroClub. Fill up your frosty beverage from one, and, a few holes later, relieve yourself into the other. We couldn't make this stuff up.