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Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room

Inessa writes "Two freshman MIT students have automated their dorm room, complete with a big red party button which generates an instant party. Their custom-engineered system is called MIDAS, the Multi-Function In Dorm Automation System. According to the MIT News office, "Gone are the light switches and glaring fluorescent lights of a typical dorm room. Zack Anderson and RJ Ryan's room has several lighting schemes, remote web access, voice activation, a security system, electric blinds and more ... With the touch of one red button, their dorm room becomes a rave. The lights go out, the blinds close, the displays read, "feel the energy" as a voice repeats the same phrase over a deep bass beat.""

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  1. One thing is for sure by eclectro · · Score: 0, Troll


    We know where the girls are not on campus.

    Not the "Midas Touch" but the "Nerd Touch".

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  2. Re:Otherwise it wouldn't be MIT... would it? by tonigonenstein · · Score: 1, Troll
    No wonder it is one of the premier educational institutions in the world

    I think you misspelled the USA.
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  3. Re:In soviet russia... by twistah · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, great joke man, it's up there with a child inflicted with a flesh-eating cancer due to AIDS received by being raped by his drug-addicted father on the funny meter.