Physics Students Build Drivable Couch

Radish03 writes "Some of my fellow members of The Society of Physics Students at Purdue University have, in an effort to preserve our beloved, antique couch, motorized it. The blue vinyl couch, named Mojo, was spotted driving around the Purdue campus on Thursday. Mojo, which has been extensively reupholstered with duct tape, features headlights, a glove box, and a radio and sound system will be added soon. Mojo has recently received sponsorship from Duck Tape and after appearing in several local newspapers, is in on the road to New York and set to appear Monday morning on Good Morning America. There are also a few pictures and videos of the couch in action."

Comments

Well, what else

[Anonymous Coward]

Are physics students going to do with a couch? Make-out? Have sex? Hahahaha!

Re:Well, what else

[Anonymous Coward]

And sadly, you were a tenured professor.

Re:Well, what else

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, you think it's normal to make out and have sex with couches?

Arg

[GigsVT]

They need a sponsorship from Kodak to get a competant photographer.

Those pictures look like they were taken by a drunk 5 year old.

huh?

[MustardMan]

As someone who was once a physics student... how the hell do physics undergrads have the time for this stuff? If you have time to do things that are fun, your physics program isn't hard enough ;)

Re:huh?

[Radish03]

Many of those involved are in applied ;-P

nice couch, but.....

[ChrisGilliard]

What's with the hat?

Must be the tractor transmission...

[Anonymous Coward]

The couch travels at about walking speed and can carry three people in the front and pull three more with a small trailer on the back.

Awesome work, guys: I can't even get my lawnmower to cut grass.

Call us back when....

[Dachannien]

I'd be impressed if they managed to get the thing to be street legal and then got license plates for it.

Police Officer: "Dispatch, I need you to run a plate for me."
Dispatch: "Go ahead."
Police Officer: "Adam Charlie Robert, Six Three Three Zero. It's a blue 1983 Barca."
Dispatch: "Reported stolen 27 January '06."
Police Officer: "I'm in pursuit. Send me some backup."

Moments later....

Police Officer: "TC! TC! 10-52! Oh, the humanity!!"

physics students...

[Spy der Mann]

...and they can't resize a picture. Sheesh. Let the slashdot effect teach 'em a lesson.

the beuty is in the eyes of the beholder

[wikinerd]

• physics nerd: we have a drivable couch!!!
• chemistry nerd: how can I make it to explode?
• business marketroid: how can I squeeze money out of it?
• mathematician: how long would it take to travel to Portland with the couch at half speed?
• lawyer: where is the license plate?
• insurance agent: you need to buy an insurance, Sir; this couch is prone to accidents!
• tourism agent: looks like it could become a new tourist attraction, let's print some tickets
• Eric S Raymond: Let's open source it!
• Richard Stallman: I will create a copylefted version, GNC (GNU's not coach)
• computer geek: doc, does it run GNU/Linux?
• troll: not new, others did it in the past, nothing to see here
• photographer: you should have hired me sir, your pix suck
• RIAA: We have the copyright, you are screwed
• government: Let's regulate it, so that we can tax it easier
• urban planner: This will cause further traffic congestion, and people will sleep on their drivable coaches while on the road
• network expert: Imagine a beowulf cluster made of those...
• American: Can I sell it on ebay?
• British: I am sure the inventor must have been British, let's knight them
• Canadian: eh!
• Ballmer: Developers! developers! developers! er...
• 133t5p34k3r: n34t!

Re:the beuty is in the eyes of the beholder

[NetRAVEN5000]

You forgot one:

Clippy: It looks like you're riding a couch! Would you like to use the couch-riding wizard?

Re:Sorry to Troll

[cbiltcliffe]

This has been done before, as a previous post links. NOT an original idea.

So? It's not like they're trying to patent it or anything.....