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.
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]