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5) Alternatively…
If you’ve got more remotes than you can claim free silicon covers for, try this one we made earlier…

6) Baseball recall
A precursor to Wii, 140,000 units of Radica’s $50 plug-and-play TV baseball game were recalled in the US after just seven reports of minor injuries. The bat had a tendency to break up during a swing, showering bystanders with shards of plastic.

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