Mixed Grille

Wheelchair Man Gets Surprise Highway Ride

A man in a wheelchair was taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a truck. The back of Ben Carpenter's wheelchair was scooped up and the driver was completely unaware that he had a new passenger, kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt. Passing motorists told police, who found the man unhurt. Officers in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said Mr Carpenter had told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda. The truck driver refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said. To view the photograph, check out BBC.

Sound Logic

MTU Students Create Speakers From Snow

You have to hand it to a group of engineering students at Michigan Technology University – for designing sound speakers made out of snow. For a memorable photograph, go to SciFi.com/tech and I’m sure you’ll enjoy Peter Pachal’s review of their effort, just as much as I did. Well done, Peter for bringing that to our attention. And of course, well done to the students for their amazing effort to pump out 20,000 watts out of something encased in snow. It was all part of the statewide snow-sculpture competition, but the MTU students didn’t win. Alas, not every element in the speakers was crafted from snow.

FOOTNOTE: So that’s what they mean by ``snowball effect’’.