A Michigan company called Inventive Engineering has come up with a better mousetrap divot tool ball mark repair tool. Unlike most on the market, it has short teeth, which is supposed to prevent the root damage that can result from a mark tool being embedded too deeply. An abutment just behind the teeth also helps to prevent it from being pushed too far. Another design feature: there’s a notch in the handle so that it can be used as a club rest.

The tool is manufactured in Michigan and Ohio from an incredibly lightweight, yet durable plastic (polycabonate). The targeted end use of the repair tool is as a promotional or fundraising product, so it’s sold in bulk and the company can put little stickers with your logo on the handle. The Better Divot Repair Tool is very reasonably priced—just .75 each in lots of 100. Buy 5,000 and your price drops to .25 each.

If you just want a couple, they’ll sell you four for the price of shipping and handling—$3.99. That’s a good deal.

I’ve been using mine for several weeks now, and—greens benefits aside—I find the best thing about it is that I don’t stab myself in the leg through my pocket, as sometimes happens with longer (and sharper) toothed tools. I’ve been thinking about getting several hundred made with a GolfBlogger logo sticker as a promotional giveaway.

It’s a golf GPS, a car GPS, a video player, an MP3 player and more. The only device you’ll ever need!!!

Designed by a firm in India, the Anti Terrorist Assault Cart is designed to navigate through buildings to take out terrorist such as those that attacked the Hotel in Mumbai last year.

The cart weighs half a ton, and can stand up to bullets and grenade blasts. With a top speed of 15mph, it can drive six hours on a single charge.

The police officer in my school building has a Segway and has sometimes joked that he needs a cow catcher attached to the front. I’ll bet he’d REALLY like one of these.

More at the BBC.

CALLAWAY 10 x 25 Tournament Binocular

If there’s a golf accessory that Callaway doesn’t brand, I don’t know what it is. Here’s a set of Callaway branded binoculars for watching tournaments.

iPosture Pro

Grade: A
Given a family history of backs problems and my own nascent pains, I visit a chiropractor on a regular basis. I’m hoping that I can avoid the back surgeries that plagued my mom and dad by taking a proactive stance. One of the things that my chiropractor has impressed upon me is the need to maintain good posture, particularly by maintaining an arch in the lower back, and keeping my head over my shoulders and my chin level. I think that I’ve done a pretty good job, for my back pains have all but disappeared, and a recent checkup showed improvement in spinal curvature.

But I’m a pretty disciplined kind of guy. For others,a Memphis based neurologist named Moacir Schnapp has created a device called the iPosture Golf Pro that’s designed to help you maintain a proper back position.

The iPosture is a small round plastic device that you either wear around their neck, or stick to your body using a removable tape. Inside the iPosture is a microchip that measures your body angle and sends out a slight vibration whenever you come off plane. The creators recommend that you wear it several hours each day for a couple of weeks, and then a couple of times a week thereafter.

In the name of science, I wore the iPosture for several days and discovered that it does work as advertised. Whenever I went into a slouch, the iPosture would start vibrating a few seconds later, telling me to straighten up.

The good news for me was that the only time that the iPosture activated was when I deliberately decided to set it off. My normal posture apparently is near enough to correct to satisfy the microchip.

Dr. Schnapp contends that using the iPosture will improve your golf game.

“Bad posture has been proven to reduce the reliability of a golfer’s swing, limit clubhead speed, compromise power and cause unnecessary strain. The iPosture is designed to help golfers enhance their game off the course so they’ll play their best on the course.”

Now I need to stick it to my teenage son, who has developed the trademark teenage slouch.