Sports Technologies We Love - Electronic Pin Locators

You won't see Tiger Woods using one, but amateur golfers could shave a few strokes off their scores with new devices that calculate one's distance from the pin. One such device called the Leica Pinmaster shoots a laser at the pin to measure distance, helping you decide whether to use the six-iron or the seven. With any luck, lost golf balls will someday be a thing of the past as well, with new products like Ballfinder Scout, that help duffers find balls hit into the rough or woods.  Not that I know anything about lost balls in the rough....