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I was surprised to see that Coolest Gadgets hasn’t covered the Nintendo WiiFit yet, so I feel obligated to spread the good news of the WiiFit release date to all of our readers. Nintendo has officially announced that the WiiFit will be released on May 19th.

For those of you who are not familiar with the WiiFit, it is a pressure sensitive balance board that allows users to exercise with aerobic, toning, and balance activities, all “supervised” by a virtual trainer.

Not only will the WiiFit do exercise-based games like push-ups, but there are other games that are fun for all ages. For example, a user can wiggle to a virtual hula hoop or play a soccer goalie who is blocking shots with his or her head. Click on the jump to see a video of its features.

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Are you an avid golfer who wants to fill up your head with everything golf, including golf course data from all over the US? If so, then the Never-Search for Golf software is perfect for someone like you.

Never-Search for Golf is a golf course location guide, containing a complete and comprehensive array of golf course contact information, course data and location information… all mapped with unprecedented accuracy to verified coordinates. Designed to appeal to travelers desiring to locate and qualify a golf course in an unfamiliar area, and to golfers who want to expand their area of play.

What makes this great is you don’t need an Internet connection to keep it going, and it features the following :-

• All 18,475 Golf Courses in the US
• 1,600 Driving Ranges
• 3,500 Off-Course Golf Stores
• 9,000 Golf Instructors

The Personal and Business editions retail for $19.95 and $495, respectively.

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The Giant Golf Set you see here helps you hit the darn ball since it has been blown up. After all, who in their right mind would continue swinging at a ball all day long while missing the target?

The trouble with golf is that everything is so darn small. The club heads are tiny, the ball is minute, the holes are just ludicrous (as are the shoes of course), and you begin to wonder what on earth the point is. However, if it wasn’t for someone inventing pinhead golf, then some other idiot wouldn’t have come up with this super-size, super-stupid Giant Golf. Club, tee and ball are all ludicrously big, enabling even the tragically inept to take a successful swing and watch with smug satisfaction as their ball sails across the garden, beach or fairway. Though we don’t suggest trying this on a real fairway as golf clubs are renowned more for their feelings of self-importance than their sense of humor. It’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s a brilliantly fun lawn game.

The Giant Golf Set will retail for £19.99 a pop. You’ll need a sense of humor before purchasing this.

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Keeping score of all the teams during the baseball season can be quite a chore, so why not let the Automatic Professional Baseball Electronic Scoreboard do all the dirty work for you?

This wireless electronic scoreboard automatically updates and displays the line score for every MLB® game throughout an entire season (including pre-season and playoffs) without requiring a subscription or service fees. At the touch of a button you can access each teams schedule, current divisional standings (wins/losses, games back, streak, and record in last 10 games played), and the starting pitchers for every game. It has an easy-to-read, backlit 5 1/4″ LCD that shows inning-by-inning line scores starting with the first pitch of the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues and culminating with the final out of the World Series. Information is updated every 15 minutes by a wireless signal transmitted from 8,000 antennas across the U.S. Includes a built-in, self-setting clock

Powered by a quartet of AA batteries, the Automatic Professional Baseball Electronic Scoreboard can be picked up for $149.95.

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You can’t normally fish and kayak at the same time (unless you enjoy getting wet), however that could change with the new fisherman’s kayak.

This is the only kayak available that uses a patented extendable outrigger system to stabilize the craft, enabling outdoor enthusiasts to fish from a standing position. Made of durable polyethylene with stainless steel and aluminum hardware, the kayak has two independent outriggers that pivot outward 45 to its centerline, yet both swing back into position to form the aft section of the craft to allow for smooth paddling.

The fisherman’s kayak costs $1,899.95 and is available at Hammacher.

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Now is this a fancy piece of headgear or what - the Feenom Goggles not only offer protection for your eyes, but it also features headphone earmuffs that keeps you grooving while making your way down those slopes without letting your ears go cold in the process. Targeting outdoorsy folk who hate sitting at home playing online poker, the Feenom Goggles comes with articulated helmet hinge on the goggles in addition to a pair of large fluffy earmuff headphones. Hopefully, should there be a future iteration, the Feenom Goggles’ successor will come in a more desirable design.

Source: Crave

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They say that necessity is the mother of all invention, and it could not be any truer for Australian Kevin Barr who realized that there is actually a need for purpose-built eye protection for folks involved in the extreme water sport market, and hence his brainchild in starting Barz Optics. This company kickstarted an innovation process that has not looked back since its humble beginnings, offering a wide range of products that help keep your eyes safe no matter what extreme sport you are involved in, protecting against a variety of elements such as wind, salt, water, dust, sand and glare.

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Ever felt so much rage at home or the office that you just wanted to shoot something or someone? Well now you can take out that aggression on a proper target with the N Range indoor target range.

Yeah, that’s right, inside that beautiful armoire shown here is a target. Now you don’t have to go to the shooting range to “get your gun off”, but just open it up and shoot away. Blam! Blam! Blam!

In case you are wondering, the target is steel-backed so the bullets will not go through the armoire and through the wall. So it’s an armored armoire.

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