College Ushers In Digital Age; Stops Giving Out Email
Wow, I feel old. The New York Times reports that Boston College will not give out school e-mail addresses to newly-enrolled students, since so many students are showing up to school with their own pre-existing digital addresses. But don’t worry, incoming BC freshmen–your dreams of a university account of your very own aren’t completely dashed. […]
Microsoft Brings the Future to Colleges
Costs of everything from bean bags to book bags are skyrocketing. So where to look if you want to distract yourself from the downward-spiraling economy? The future, of course! Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s new chief long-term strategist, kicked off his five college tour yesterday at Princeton University. Mundie tells The Daily Princetonian the goal of […]
Carnegie Mellon Student Sells iPhone App, Justifies Nerdiness
Jeffrey Grossman, a student at Carnegie Mellon University just cashed in. Flixster, the movie based social media network, has acquired Grossman’s iPhone app (appropriately named Movies.app) for an undisclosed amount. Suffice to say, the kid probably made bank. It’s the first known acquisition of an iPhone app.
And if that wasn’t a sweet enough […]
MTV Misses U
Where would MTV be without college students? Who else has the patience to sit through 3-hour blocks of mindless chatter on The Hills or watch Making the Band at 2 a.m.? But since the Internet has taken away all of MTV’s precious, precious youth, with things like Facebook and YouTube (you know, where […]
Facebook Remembers It Was Once a College Site
Remember back in the day when Facebook was exclusive to college students. No pesky 13-year-olds or meddling parents–not to mention potential employers–to avoid? (Just that weirdo in your bio class.) Well, those days are long gone. While college kids may no longer be the sole proprietors of Facebook, the site has released some […]
State College PD Keeps PSU Safe in 140 Characters or Less
E-mail alerts are so 2004. To reach today’s plugged-out, on-the-go collegians, the Penn State University-patrolling State College Police Department is testing out a new alert system, powered by kid-approved microblogging site Twitter. PSU students can sign up to receive 140-character, byte-sized messages about everything from recent campus crime activity and weather alerts […]
The Amazing Solar-Powered Car Race
Solar-powered road trip! Yesterday, 15 teams of college students from schools in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the U.K. began the 2,400-mile North American Solar Challenge race from Plano, Texas, to Calgary in Alberta, Canada. During their cross-country trek, Raven-Symone will encounter a plethora of wacky hijinks and learn important life lessons…oh wait, […]
Tufts University to Develop Morphing Robots. John Connor Doomed.
Scientists at Tufts University have received a $3.3 million contract to create a robot that capable of shrinking down to a tenth its normal size, squeezing into a tiny crevice, and then growing back to full size again. The robots will be used to conduct unmanned operations where normal entry is blocked and not, they […]
Welcome the Pen of the Future
Eons and eons ago, students brought paper and binders to class and wrote on them with vessels full of ink called “pens.” Then, when they realized their handwritten notes were horrifyingly disorganized, students started bringing their laptops to class, triggering a scoliosis epidemic. Cue the newest technology: digital pens! Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant inventors […]
The Hot New Thing for Tri-Lambda Frat Houses: Robot Bartenders
Need we say more?
(Source: Boing Boing Gadgets)