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The Most Ridiculous Beer Pong Table Ever Automatically Washes Your Balls

A group of electrical engineering students at West Virginia University has built the most insane beer pong table ever. It's got lights all around that react to the music playing as well as a pair of built-in swirling ball washers. It's incredible. They're taking orders for them now if you want one of your own, but be warned: this first one cost them $1,000 and 400 hours of work to complete, so it won't be cheap. Hit the jump for a video of it in action, and be sure to skip to 2:30 unless you think still photos of electrical engineering majors and circuit boards are suddenly cool when set to Linkin Park. More »

2:30 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Adam Frucci
24,223 views, 58 comments

Latest by wolfenstein-3d: Music: Poor ChoiceTable: Excellent (In the middle of a beer pong game)Guy #1: Uh why did the LEDs turn off?Guy #2: Dude, did you waterproof the circuit?Guy #1: Ahhh shit. I knew i forgot something. Props to WV. And props to these more »

guitar hero robot

Guitar Hero Robot Shows Just How Much Its Creators Love Achievements

These Electrical Engineering students at Texas A&M love Guitar Hero so much that they made a "robot," which is actually just some levers and switches and a circuit board set up on top of a Guitar Hero guitar, and a system that analyzes the video signal to determine when and where to hit the notes. The end result is a bot that can get a very respectable 96% on some hard- ass songs, negating the need for a human player to get all the crazy achievements in Guitar Hero 3. We would have suggested these college kids go get drunk and laid instead of spending their time building a Guitar Hero robot, but then we remembered that they're Electrical Engineering majors. [Slashbot]

3:00 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Jason Chen
6,891 views, 61 comments

Latest by Shai: @mechfluff: Data? more »

robots

Georgia Tech to Launch First Interdisciplinary Robotics Ph.D Program

Georgia Tech is going to create the nation's interdisciplinary Ph.D program in Robotics, pulling from various engineering (mechanical, electrical, biomedical, aerospace) and computer science disciplines to form a more focused program. Other schools tend to offer a concentrated look at one area of robotics. The idea behind Georgia Tech's program is to get students to think about robots holistically, rather than only focusing on one aspect of a bot with minimal knowledge of the rest. More »

8:00 PM on Sat Feb 2 2008
By Adrian Covert
2,134 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: yea, lets not forgot the global market domination by japanese companies, too. they've been efficiently teaching people how to create efficient machines for a while, as they might be needing the manpower down the line. more »

eau-some

iBotics Stingray Up Against it in a San Diego Swimming Pool

This is the Stingray robo-sub, one of the competitors in the tenth Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, which is taking place at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego this weekend. Rather confusingly, one of its rival's entries, from the U.S. Naval Academy, is known as Project Stingray, which you can see below. It's not as sexy as the one above, although the Academy boys get points from me for looking buff in their shorts.


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7:56 AM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By AddyDugdale
5,338 views, 8 comments

Latest by xsportseeker: OMG, I knew it... first commentary. Just came to check out. more »

college

MTV and Cisco Really Want to be Hip with the Kids

MTV and Cisco are doing a "Digital Incubators" program, a joint venture between mtvU and Cisco that offers $30,000 in seed money to college kids who come up with buzz-worthy convergence-stuffed project to connect with the kids. There's even an extra opportunity for another $100,000 in funding if they come up with something better than a cellphone game about bongs, which comprised about half the entries. More »

12:40 PM on Mon May 14 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,883 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Jellyfish Inflatable Beer Bong Makes Binge Drinking That Much Easier

Are college kids really so one-dimensional? I mean, I know Travis is, but are all of them like him? Obsessed with beer bongs and boobs? Yes? OK, fair enough. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Apr 2 2007
By Adam Frucci
856 views, 7 comments

pcs

Top 10 Wired Colleges: Great School, But Can You BitTorrent There?

PC Mag has teamed up with the Princeton Review and figured out the techno-pecking order of universities, citing the Top 10 Wired Colleges in the United States. There are lots of reasons to pick out a school, such as male-to-female ratio, reputation for serious partying, and oh yeah, there's that academic thing. But then there's that all-important network infrastructure. More »

11:05 AM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Charlie White
2,178 views, 26 comments

laptops

First Sony Battery Laptop Fire Fatality, or Just Fraternity Fireworks Stupidity?

After a recent fire in a Nebraska Wesleyan University Fraternity house killed one student and hospitalized three others, investigators are trying to determine whether a laptop was responsible for the blaze. More »

2:30 PM on Thu Nov 23 2006
By Jason Chen
411 views, 4 comments

home entertainment

University of Texas Installs Ron Jeremy Sized HDTV

The University of Texas has recently finished installation of a $8 million HDTV that measures 134 feet wide and 55 feet tall at the UT football stadium. This thing is so damn big that the university has to upgrade the utilities throughout the stadium to accommodate the power, also they installed 40 5-ton air conditioner units to cool the behemoth. More »

11:22 AM on Mon Aug 28 2006
By Travis Hudson
1,180 views, 16 comments

cellphones

MSU Cellphone GPS Tracking, Part Duex

If you recall, yesterday we mentioned the program that Monclair State University has implemented. For a quick refresher, they gave all incoming freshman a cellphone that comes equipped with a GPS tracker. Sounds a little Big Brother-ish, right? Well not really. I had a chat with an MSU employee who gave me the full rundown of the program and how amazingly awesome it is. Hit the jump to get the full scoop. More »

4:30 PM on Wed Jul 12 2006
By Travis Hudson
2,181 views, 4 comments

cellphones

Big Brother Gives out Free Cellphones

Montclair State University will soon be providing their students with more goodies than just textbooks and debt up to their eyeballs. Students enrolled at this New Jersey college will also receive a free cellphone. The premise behind this idea is to provide safety for students by allowing them to always have a way to call for help or even a DD. There is a bit of a catch, though. Each cellphone is equipped with a GPS tracking device so at any given time school administrators can pinpoint the exact location of a student. More »

11:30 AM on Tue Jul 11 2006
By Travis Hudson
372 views, 11 comments

Latest by Worf: Well, the student has the option of NOT USING SCHOOL-PROVIDED CELLPHONES! If they object, just leave it off in the dorm room and get your own cellphone already. more »

laptops

Send a Mac to Your Boy in College

Business Week columnist Stephen "Wild Thing" Wildstrom writes that kids going away to college should bring a tolerance for bad beer, a copy of Dave Matthews' Under the Table and Dreaming and a Mac. More »

9:21 AM on Fri Jun 16 2006
By johnb
329 views, 10 comments

portable media

iPod Beats Out Beer in a Popularity Contest

Ridgewood's biannual market research study shows that iPods have overtaken drinking beer as the most "in" thing among the undergraduate college students. Last year iPod took 59-percent of the vote to be in second place to beer, but in a shocking upset the iPod took 73 percent of the vote to surpass beer for the most "in" part of undergraduate college life—blasphemy, nothing is better than drinking beer. This is only the second time that drinking beer has been upset—in 1997 the Internet took the top title, beating out beer. More »

12:00 PM on Thu Jun 8 2006
By Travis Hudson
239 views, 5 comments

Latest by non-meat-stick: this is bullshit. Apple paid to have this done. I believe the results...fucking moron drones more »

cellphones

China Blocks Cell Signals in Classrooms

Select China universities will begin blocking cell phone signals inside classrooms, specifically exam halls to stop the cheating menaces of the world. Cheating has become a high-tech problem, with students using cellphones and other portable electronic devices to gain an unfair advantage while taking tests. More »

11:22 AM on Thu Jun 1 2006
By Travis Hudson
352 views, 8 comments

robots

Robot Candystriper

Not the most attractive or humunoid of robots, this particular piece of equipment is being called Sister Mary and is part of a trial run by the department of biosurgery and surgical technology at Imperial College. Basically, it allows doctors to look at patients remotely, though it may be a little jarring to see your doctor's talking head in this thing. More »

9:17 AM on Sun Feb 12 2006
By tgrumet
113 views, 5 comments