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Newtonian Mice Wheel goes digital; rotates with keystrokes

Siddhesh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:38:38 +0000

Mice wheel was one of the petty inventions of the greatest physicians of all time, Sir Issac Newton. It harnessed the muscular energy of rats to rotate pulleys which then in turn triggered the mechanisms Newton required to carry out his...

NJ farm flings pumpkins with giant catapult

AP — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44:32 +0000

One New Jersey farm has a special attraction to go with the season’s hay rides and corn mazes: giant pumpkin catapult.

NJ callers dialing Dems get sex chat offer instead

AP — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:41:33 +0000

A misprint in a telephone book has led to some callers dialing a phone sex service while trying to reach a New Jersey political organization.

Nationwide Series to race at Iowa Speedway

AP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:35:59 +0000

The Iowa Speedway in Newton will host a NASCAR Nationwide Series race next season.

NTSB: Boston train was speeding before fatal crash

AP — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:57:51 +0000

Federal officials say a commuter train was going nearly 30 mph faster than it should have when it crashed into another train in Massachusetts.Kitty Higgins of the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday that a red signal required...

Train crashes injure passengers in Boston, Chicago

AP — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:06:39 +0000

Two commuter trains collided and derailed during the evening rush hour outside Boston on Wednesday, hurting several passengers and trapping the seriously injured operator of one train, authorities said.The crash came just hours after an elevated...

2 commuter trains collide near Boston at rush hour

AP — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:31:19 +0000

Several people are injured and a train operator is trapped after a rush-hour collision between two trains outside Boston.A spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority says there are multiple injuries in Wednesday evening’s accident...

2 commuter trains collide and derail in Boston

AP — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:54:39 +0000

Two commuter trains have apparently collided at a station in Boston.Television stations report that both derailed Wednesday after the crash on an above-ground part of the city’s “T” system. It isn’t clear whether anyone was injured.News footage from...

Nuisance Newton, a robot from the 80s

Ryan — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:10:11 +0000

No, we are not talking about those deadly robots from the sci-fi genre of Hollywood flicks. We are talking about an IBM PC XT equivalent system, 16-bit real-time microcomputer with a 20MB hard drive called Newton. Newton was a household robot...

Newton to Control the Motions in the XBox 360

Atul — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:58 +0000

Not that Isaac Newton has got something to do with the XBox but his last name could well be the name of an upcoming device which could function as a motion control device for the XBox. Don’t just start hitting out at XBox for stepping into the...