A mouse intent on flying to Atlanta prompted officials to ground a plane for more than five hours Thursday in Des Moines. A flight attendant spotted the mouse before passengers boarded the 5:50 a.m. Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight. About 30 passengers were kept waiting at the gate until the plane finally left about 11:30 a.m.
Hong Kong Disneyland unveiled new Chinese New Year outfits for Mickey and Minnie Mouse created by designer Vivienne Tam on Monday as part of the park's efforts to boost its appeal to Chinese tourists after a dismal second year.
We've encountered the occasional mistake on our paychecks, but this really boggles the mind: A man was arrested this week after he allegedly received $469,000 in electronic payroll deposits from a company he never worked for.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday proposed removing the Preble's meadow jumping mouse from Endangered Species Act protection in Wyoming but continuing protection for the mouse in Colorado as a threatened subspecies.
An Arkansas company is offering $100 to a Utah woman who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans if she pledges not to take legal action, but she's not biting. The letter from Allens Inc. of Siloam Springs, Ark., describes it as a "gesture of goodwill." Marianne Watson isn't interested.
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday.
A dead mouse that an eighth-grader found in a bag of potato chips probably chewed its way in after the snack was delivered to the school, a company spokeswoman said Monday.
A relatively low tech way to protect military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan against rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) is being patented by a US electronics company.
Things are getting so expensive in Manhattan that even the rodents are moving to the suburbs.
The Cypriot mouse overturns the widely held belief that every living species of mammal had been identified in Europe
Using DNA testing, scientists have discovered what is believed to be the first terrestrial mammal found in Europe in decades: a mouse with a big head, ears, eyes and teeth that lives in a mountainous area of Cyprus.
Computer accessory maker Logitech International SA is introducing a mouse with a free-spinning motorized scroll wheel it believes will help people more efficiently race through pages on their computer screens.
A South Carolina teenager says he found a mouse in his salad at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant, but state health department officials said Tuesday initial indications are the restaurant is not to blame.
A woman who tried to extort money from the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain by putting a dead mouse in a bowl of soup was sentenced to a year in jail.
A new study reinforces a tiny rodent's reputation as the mouse that roared, and that could block millions of dollars in development in Wyoming and Colorado if it hangs on to its endangered status.
When it comes to the price of mice, you pay more for defects. A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.
A German man panicked when he saw a mouse in his living room and fled into the snowy night wearing only boxer shorts and slippers. He called the police who obligingly hunted the rodent in his flat armed with traffic cones.
A cool article looking at an ultra slim keyboard designed to make data entry easier.
Feeling hair in her mouth, a 16-year-old vegan from Partille outside of Gothenburg looked down to discover a mouse cadaver in her bag of tortilla chips.
...Witnesses said it wasn't the passengers who were scared, but a flight attendant who was too frightened to fly. Crews set up traps with peanut butter onboard the plane in the hopes of catching the miniature stowaway...
A computer mouse created by New Zealand's Grant Odgers is attracting interest from industry big players Logitech and Microsoft.
A blogger at the New York Times has collected together a few amazing conversations between tech support and insanely thick customers. This is my favourite, where the caller was taking a huge amount of time to follow the tech support agent's instructions:
The researchers have also found that when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate.
A mouse that is highly resistant to cancer—even the most aggressive types—has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky.
Scientists have created cancer-resistant mice in a breakthrough that offers hope of a side effect-free treatment for the deadly disease.
Fiat 500 wins car of the year; now you can buy the mouse of the car of the year!
A new mouse made of "natural wool felt and laminated bamboo ply" has two keys but no scroll wheel. The mouse is wirelessly connected to your computer and can be squeezed into lots of different spaces when you need to pack it.
Hot on the heels of the "supermouse" that's twice as fast and twice as strong as a normal mouse comes the mouse that knows no fear!!
The well known company for GPS solutions Deluo now comes with an interesting idea 'GPS+Mouse'!
Everyone likes to spoil their time with something visual and "not so thought provoking" from time to time :) Enter "Mouse Heat Map", a super-small Windows utility (14.5 kb) that sits on your taskbar and monitors your mouse activity.
If there is a group of humans who whose fate tracks with that of lab mice, it is that of the Caloric Restriction Society, whose members make a lifestyle out of the long-noted fact that lab mice live nearly twice as long as regular mice--if they are dramatically underfed.
This EzKEY combo mouse and keypad might be just what you're looking for if you're on the road, suddenly need to add a long list of numbers, and your laptop doesn't have a keypad.
"I was working on invoices on my Mac, " she told me. "And my mouse just died." Jo's Mac is a Mac IIci. We're talking a circa 1989 computer; We discussed the mouse's problem. It was the clicker. It wasn't clicking anymore.
The iPhone is Steve Jobs's attempt to crack a juicy new market for Apple Inc. But it's also part of a decades-long campaign by Mr. Jobs against a much broader target: buttons.
Frito-Lay Inc. says it will investigate a Havre man's "unsubstantiated claim" that he found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.
The Wow Pen Eco is a vertical style mouse, meant to be held like a pen. It's a pretty radical design considering most people have been using a "traditional" style mouse since before they can remember.
The EMS Muscle Mouse cleverly combines the practical utility of an optical mouse with a fully functional EMS muscle stimulation system powered through your computer's USB port.
"Farfour," the Mickey Mouse look-a-like character on a Hamas run children's television show in Palestine, talks against Israel and Christians. The focus of the show was to promote Islamic domination of the world.
A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.
A pesky mouse has eluded capture at Bill Exner's Waterville home and has started to fight back by stealing Exner's lower dentures. Exner says he had to open up a hole in his bedroom to retrieve the teeth after a mouse carried them off.