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The Teddy Borg is Alive!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-was-suspicious-of-those-things dept.

probabilistic writes: "Check out what bored MIT students are up to -- a few of my friends, in their never-ending quest for network connectivity and female companionship, created the Teddy Borg. It might look like an innocent teddy bear, but behind the soft exterior lurks a GigaFast 5-port 10/100 ethernet switch."

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  1. Bored MIT students? by vlad_petric · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sorry, but that's kind of ... impossible.

    The Raven

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    The Raven

  2. What kind of teddy bear? by Metrollica · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the project could have been helped a lot by using an actual Borg Teddy Bear.

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  3. Re:so that is what it takes... by zaius · · Score: 4, Informative

    Imagine how many hits you'd get if you turned your stuffed animal into a webserver... brings new meaning to "server farm"...

  4. You too can ping through Teddy Borg by nathanm · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet.

    The ping in the last picture on the Teddy Borg has the IP 18.238.3.106 listed. I can ping it from here.

  5. Re:about that ip address by BlowCat · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have some class B networks as well (as if a class A network is not enough for them). It's a well known fact that MIT has more IP addresses than the whole China.