In recent years, the military’s top brass have funded some truly bizarre approaches — from neck injections to Reiki — in an effort to treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress afflicting today’s soldiers. It turns out they could’ve just equipped troops with Game Boys.
Over the weekend, a renegade group of student gamers from MIT hacked the Green Building, home to the MIT Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, to play a giant game of Tetris.
It doesn’t include that oh-so-catchy theme song, but as a deskcessory this Tetris lamp is thankfully not just a cheap cash grab tie-in to the famous puzzle game.
I’ll be honest, I was a little disappointed my sweetheart didn’t buy me these Black Milk Clothing Retro Gamer leggings for Valentine’s Day.
They might look like regular people, but their gaming skills are anything but. They’re superplayers. They take gaming as far as it can physically go.
That long piece in Tetris is so unreliable, I can never count on it to show up when I need it the most. [Optipess via thedailywh.at]
Remember the lovely Tetris ‘sausage’ illustration? It’s now been mocked up in Lego format. Now we have Lego-based proof-of-concept it’s surely only a matter of time until it’s scaled up to full production. [Mikropikol via Technabob]
