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Category: Education

  • A cool Minecraft Creeper backpack for kids headed back to school!

    A cool Minecraft Creeper backpack for kids headed back to school!

    From the parents I have talked to, it seems like Minecraft is pretty popular with kids these days.  I haven’t played it myself and I have no kids so I am a little out of touch but if what people tell me is true, I have a feeling there are a lot of kids out…

  • TARDIS School Lockers [pic]

    Of all of the different schools I have attended in my life, only one ever had any lockers.  I can’t say I really used mine much since I had a backpack on wheels so carrying around all of my books at once wasn’t a big deal like it was for all of the other students…

  • This Automated Dorm Room is the Dorm Room of Your Dreams [video]

    I’ve always thought it would be kind of cool to do the home automation thing to my house but I never really looked into it too seriously since I figured it would cost a ton of money to do. Well, a UC Berkeley student named Derek Low invested only a few hundred dollars (and presumably…

  • Pokemon Grading Stamp for Teachers [pic]

    When I was a kid, my teachers just used a red pen to grade papers although I wouldn’t exactly consider any of my teachers cool.  Also, none of them were gamers, so this stamp is probably something they never would have used.  However, I’m sure there are some Pokemon loving teachers out there who would…

  • Spider-Man Goes To Class [pic]

    There is nothing cooler than when great cosplay shows up at random places and this is a great example of that.  Apparently somebody decided to go to class dressed as Spider-Man.  I’m not sure why but I’d be willing to bet it threw the professor off his game.  Hopefully people see how awesome this is…

  • Robot solves Rubik’s Cube in seconds [video]

    It never ceases to amaze me the awesome things that college students build.  Usually those awesome creations come out of schools like MIT, but in this case we are talking about some students at Swinburne University of Technology.  These students created Ruby, a Rubik’s Cube solving robot.  Perhaps the most impressive thing is that it…