04-24-2008, 02:43 AM
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| Firefly Fencing
Anyone know anything about them?
They're on the vendor list for this weekend. Their website is spartan. [/understatement] It does, however, include the following text: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Firefly Fencing Website FireflyFencing is proud to announce Firefly™, an evolutionary scoring apparatus for clubs and individuals. At a fraction of the price of the competition, Firefly™ delivers exciting new features that will improve your training experience. Look for FireflyFencing's booth at a U.S. national competition in the near future! | -B
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04-24-2008, 02:51 AM
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| I'm not going to spoil it. But it's very very cool.
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04-24-2008, 03:22 AM
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| Are they the people that are supposed to be producing the mythical $100 scoring machine? | |
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04-24-2008, 03:52 AM
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Originally Posted by darius  I'm not going to spoil it. But it's very very cool. | Boooooo! If I wanted to wait a day and a half to find out I wouldn't have asked here!
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04-24-2008, 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Firefly Fencing Website FireflyFencing is proud to announce Firefly™, an evolutionary scoring apparatus for clubs and individuals. At a fraction of the price of the competition, Firefly™ delivers exciting new features that will improve your training experience. Look for FireflyFencing's booth at a U.S. national competition in the near future! | Evolutionary????
I really hope that's a typo. | |
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04-24-2008, 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Gav Evolutionary????
I really hope that's a typo. | If it isn't, 40% of their target market won't believe in the product and 20% will be unsure about getting it  | |
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04-24-2008, 06:17 AM
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| They evidently need a copy editor.
"Firefly Fencing, Comming Soon" http://www.fireflyfencing.com/
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04-24-2008, 06:40 AM
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| Circuit boards, countdown timer, homemade look... That's going to be fun to fly with (:
Better not use them in Boston either | |
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04-24-2008, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by sionnach Circuit boards, countdown timer, homemade look... That's going to be fun to fly with (:
Better not use them in Boston either | Yes, Graffiti Research Lab!
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04-24-2008, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by academe | Yes, scared white people! | |
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04-24-2008, 09:11 AM
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| Maybe it can 'become' a bigger scoring machine that will grow over time and become the huge massive scoring machine we have seen at final strips.
Maybe it is more than meets the eye... | |
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04-24-2008, 11:01 AM
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#12 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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| Will they provide discounts to Registered Companions? Will using it make you Fast Like a Freak? Is it the best equipment company in the 'Verse? | |
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04-24-2008, 11:02 AM
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#13 | | Have Blazer, Will Travel
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Originally Posted by dekko Maybe it can 'become' a bigger scoring machine that will grow over time and become the huge massive scoring machine we have seen at final strips.
Maybe it is more than meets the eye... | This idea is so awesome I think I'd buy one if it was anywhere near possibly coming true.*
* The "expanding Skynet scoring machine", that is. | |
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04-24-2008, 11:58 AM
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| So did they break the lights off a bunch of fireflies to make the LED's? Looks like about the right color. | |
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04-24-2008, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by sabreur | Unless the units "comm"unicate with each other...yeah, that could be it...!
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04-24-2008, 12:27 PM
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| Does anyone have pics of this box in 'action'? | |
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04-24-2008, 01:15 PM
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| In action? It's just a box, it sits there.
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04-24-2008, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by seven6ty In action? It's just a box, it sits there. | Ok, for the undereducated....
How about a picture with the lights on or the remote is there a remote, does the box keep score, does it only have a clock? | |
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04-24-2008, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by dekko .... Does the box keep score, does it only have a clock? | It looks like it flips coins!
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04-24-2008, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bunbury | Why were they so stupid to put them under bridges? How would you like to drive over a steel girder bridge which had an unknown, lights blinking medium sized package up near joints similar to the ones that failed when the bridge fell down in Minnesota?
Laugh now if you want to, I was in the suburbs when it was going on and I think the response was appropriate.
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