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{ Daily Archives } Monday, September 2003

GPS might help Indian trainwrecks?

The BBC has a story on Indian trains getting some technology upgrades to help fight train crashes. One of them is using GPS to help relay information on where the trains are as a preventative measure. Hopefully, this will work. There was mention of another tool which buzzes from inactivity to keep the driver awake. […]

ElastoLab Physics Engine open sourced

Just heard some rumblings about the ElastoLab Physics Engine being Open Sourced under the MIT license. I’ve not actually had time to sit down and work with the engine at all but it looks like a really neat way to help explore physics.