VIDEO: Watch Science's Future Great Minds Play Building-Side Tetris
by Sean ComerEvery mind capable of pioneering vision started somewhere. So bookmark and cherish this description and video. One day, you'll look back on this and tell your great-grandchildren that the digital dynamos that made the omni-tool technology in Mass Effect, Netflix-streaming brain implants and planes made of black-box material a reality got his or her start turning a building into a big-ass Gameboy.
In this video that started sweeping the Interwebz this morning, a rogue Massachussetts Institute of Technology played an April 20 prank hacking the school's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences building and played a giant Tetris game for all to see.
Go figure: 4/20 rolls around, and the first thing the kids do is play video games.
The "MIT Gallery of Hacks" has deemed the move "The Holy Grail of Hacks." That's not to say it's exactly "original": a 2000 team from Brown University staged the same feat, only they did so with their institution's sanction using a Linux setup and about 10,000 lightbulbs.
Sanctioned or not - Hell, "productive" or not - watch the video, and remember this: "gamer" is no synonym for "idiot."