MIT professor Walter Lewin is a legend in the physics world. Spanish channel lainformacioncom had the special chance to interview the eccentric scientist and made this video about the professor which stands with over 135,000 views.
Music Hack Day at MIT is an international 24-hour event where musical nerds of all kinds collaborate to change the music world through technology innovation.
For Ryan Challinor‘s project, he connected a simple wireless heart rate monitor to his computer, and by using special software, is able to manipulate the tempo of a song.
His program took his heart rate, divided it by the original tempo of the song, and used that number to control the rate of song speed.
To demonstrate his invention, he performed jumping jacks while Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe was playing. As his heart beat increased, so did the speed of the song. It’s quite an experience.
Over the weekend, the video went viral, garnering over 150,000 views. It has also been featured on Geek, NowMSN, and TheDailyWhat.
Gangnam Style is one of those Internet phenomenons which don’t just go away that quickly. The latest to jump on board the parody wagon is MIT.
A group of fun loving students spoofed the original viralviral music video like so many before them, with special cameos from professors such as Noam Chomsky. Already, the new music video has over 110,000 views, and is featured on TheDailyWhat, MetaFilter, and Neatorama.
Glass ketchup bottles are better than plastic, but they have their negatives. Getting the ketchup to actually pour out is always a pain, and that last bit at the bottom? Forget about it.
But now, the geniuses at MIT have engineered a radical new bottle design that facilitates smooth ketchup pouring to the last drop. Science! The video is featured on DailyMail, TheDailyWhat, and FoxNews.
This isn’t the first time it’s been done, but nerds at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully hacked one of the campus building and played Tetris ‘on’ it.
Apparently without permission, a few students somehow managed to turn the famous campus Green Building into a Tetris board on Friday night, and played a few rounds. The video is covered on BostonInno and MSN.
