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)

First Textbook Innovation Since Gutenberg

Kindle’s on fire! Well, kinda…the hand-held digital text device from Amazon just struck a deal with Princeton University Press to start offering a few Kindle-ready e-textbooks for download 2 weeks before paper copies are available. The pros? E-books are cheaper and lighter, and you can fit an entire semester’s worth of books […]

Teen Transcript Hijinks Not So Funny in Real Life

Movies make overcoming bad grades look so easy: Just break into the guidance office, strategically apply a little Wite-Out or type a few A’s in place of F’s, and you’ll be in Cambridge by September. But one Orange County teen who tried to do some after-hours editing on his transcript is being charged with […]

My Thesis Was Just About Third-World Debt….

A group of students at Aalborg University Copenhagen have created an awesome multi-touch game called Oculusia for their bachelor’s thesis. The game has a great design and looks like a blast. Four players fire adorable little eye-monsters at a boss while using a paddle to defend against both the boss’s bullets and their team’s missed […]

Campus iNVASION

Legions of pissed-off iHeads unable to purchase the latest iPhone online may want to check out the closest college campus next month. Rumor has it the retail eggheads at Apple may start pedaling the iPhone 3G at universities. The plan, allegedly, is to start marketing and selling them at schools where Apple already has a […]

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