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Link: MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turns Building Into a Playable Game of Tetris [Slideshow + Video]
http://bostinno.com/2012/04/21/mit-completes-the-holy-gra...
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The students at MIT love a good hack, but what’s better than playing a game while doing it? This week, a team took over the side of MIT’s Green Building and turned it into a giant, playable, multi-color Tetris game.
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Video: Cookie-Baking Robot
Him and Paula Deen should make a cooking show. Those culinary robotics nerds at MIT have just made grandma obsolete. Via
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MIT Makes A (Really Bad) Princess Leia Hologram
Science Buzz Using a hacked Kinect and 16 lo-res infrared cameras, the MIT Media Lab created this structured light moving image of a reenactment of Princess Leia's call for help from Star Wars. Making its premiere at the Practical Holography XXV conference in San Francisco (well, that exists), the final product leaves a little to be desired and I'm not just talking about the grad student's acting skills. (Source, Via)
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Extreme Origami Sculptures At MIT
Culture Buzz I never thought I'd hear extreme and origami in the same sentence, but the guys at MIT mean serious business when they fold their paper squares. This isn't your beginner paper crane either- it's crazy, complicated dragonflies that take weeks to complete! That is dedication.
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Link: MIT Student's Nanotech Threads Adjust to Any Season
http://www.switched.com/2010/12/17/vistakula-climaware-na...
It may not garner any fashion awards, but a line of clothing developed by an MIT student can help regulate the body's temperature.
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Video: Flyfire
Flyfire is a project by some MIT folks that aims to “transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive environment”. They use tons of tiny helicopters with small LEDs to create some pretty cool pictures and effects. I want, like, 200 of these. Read more about it here.
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Video: Song To Get Into MIT
Someone sent me this this link for a guy who was waitlisted at MIT, and wrote a song as a plea to help his chances of getting off the waitlist. Because we all know that if there's one thing that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology loves, it's the humanities.
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Image: MIT Students Rickroll Boston
A group of MIT students climbed up the scaffolding of the campus' “Great Dome” (which looks like music bars) and installed seven notes. Those noted are the first seven notes of Rick Astley's “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
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Link: How The Internet Sees You
http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb
“Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum - It creates a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.”
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Video: LOLrio Kart
The LOLrioKart is a shopping cart pimped out with a motor and wheels that's rigged to go up to 45MPH. I'm quite sure there's life-changing brilliance coming from the great minds at MIT. This, on the other hand, is just showing off. I'd like to see someone try and stop this thing with a banana peel.
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The Smoot
Science Buzz Fifty years ago this weekend, the 5’7” Oliver Smoot was used by his MIT fraternity brothers to mark the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, in what they called smoots. The Harvard Bridge is officially 364.4 smoots long, plus or minus one ear. It smoot went on to become an internationally recognized yet non-standardized unit of measurement, and even appears as an option of measurement in Google Earth. Yay for Nerds!
