John Hamel remembers the precise moment it hit him. Driving through his hometown of Revere, Mass. on a warm summer day in 2005, he noticed a nail salon to his left. He drove a little farther and saw ...

It’s magnets! Seriously. There’s a layer of iron underneath the cue ball that gets nudged and pulled by a strong magnet inside the pool table so that it gets put on a completely different track from ...

If you've ever played pool on a table that takes quarters and also aren't particularly good at pool, you have probably landed the cue ball in the pocket. Repeatedly. And even though the stripes and ...