Posts Tagged ‘hacks’

Supermarket carriage + MIT barneys = LOLrio Kart

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Gizmodo introduces the world to the LOLrio Kart, a supermarket carriage transformed into a go-cart capable of bombing down Mass. Ave at speeds up to 45 mph.

I’m having nightmarish visions of this thing being mass produced and deployed at the Porter Square Star Market, where I worked when I was in high school, in the mid-nineties. Terrifying.

Of course, the last time a bunch of barneys got ahold of a supermarket carriage, they got sued by the T. One of those students went on to co-found Levant Power, which MHT wrote about earlier this month. Watch Charlie Card hacking/supermarket carriage abusing video after the jump.

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Red Line gets two lunar stops, courtesy of MIT and JFK Library

Monday, June 15th, 2009
MIT Photo

MIT Photo

With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing coming up next month, MIT alum Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong dropped by Kendall Sq. for the Giant Leaps conference last week. The former astronauts, among other things, posed with a replica of their moon lander (right) which some MIT scamps had, obviously, put on MIT’s Great Dome.  

Seven stops down the Red Line, the JFK Library is launching a web site next month to commemorate President John F. Kennedy’s role in getting Aldrin and Armstrong up there. The site goes live 40 years to the minute after the launch, and is intended to recreate the mission through audio, video, photos and other multimedia.

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