In most college dorms, the most advanced pieces of technology consist of a George Foreman Grill and a glow-in-the-dark Bob Marley poster. Not so for UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low, creator of the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD).
We all know that college is expensive, and outside of convincing someone to marry you (which, according to our friends at Moneyland, can save you up to $80k in tuition costs), debt-ridden students need all the financial help they can get.
You may recall news of the larger-than-life Kno tablet from back in early June. It consists of two 14-inch color touchscreens, weighs 5.5 pounds, and wants to replace the need for college students to carry around textbooks.
Ah, college kids. The perfect mix of intelligence and idle time.
Mother of pearl, that’s a giant tablet. The student-centric “Kno” is made of two 14-inch 1440×900-resolution capacitive IPS touchscreens and weighs 5.5 pounds. It’s meant to replace a college student’s textbooks, though, which collectively weigh at least 5.5 pounds and can’t connect to the internet.
The Rube Goldberg Competition challenges teams of college (and high school) students to over-engineer a contraption that will perform a simple task – think, Mousetrap. Saturday, engineering students flocked to Purdue University for the national contest, ready and excited to … dispense some hand sanitizer.
Students in two of Lee Sheldon’s game design classes at Indiana University are graded using a system of experience points similar to systems used in games like World of Warcraft.
