Technically, you don’t need friends to practice table tennis, you can just fold up one half of the table and play against yourself – but this looks like so much more fun – and better practice as you can change the settings so that it shoots the ball with three different types of spin:

Underspin (where the bottom of the ball rotates away from the player, requiring a chopping stroke to return); Topspin (where the top of the ball rotates away from the player); and a challenging Heavy Topspin (high rpm rotation that must be returned with a controlled downward stroke).

It holds 110 ping pong balls and will shoot them one after the other until it runs out.

Price: $149.95 [Oh Gizmo!]