"Tracking the puck through traffic, you can't get that in practice as a goaltender, " Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard said.

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Who knows, the Puck might also help you break the ice.

ENGADGET

You will get the puck, he is a good passer.

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And in yet another unexpected use for coffee, we bring you the Epiphany onE Puck, a phone charger that siphons energy from your mug and uses it to power your gadgets.

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"You feel like when he gets the puck, no one's going to take it away from him, " said John Tavares, whom the Islanders took with the top pick in the 2009 draft.

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Or you have shrunken down and ridden on an air hockey puck.

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Sensors at the midway point of the table detect the angle, speed, and trajectory of the not-exactly-oncoming puck, and instructs the mechanism how and where to fire the disc -- you slap it back, and the same sequence happens on your compadre's end.

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Each sensor, which is shaped like a hexagon and is about twice as thick as a hockey puck, is capable of monitoring the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure of virtually any object you can think of.

ENGADGET

There was a couple of times where the goalie was out and we shot a puck and it looked like it was going, it hits a skate and goes wide and you get those games, you get those nights.

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