Gaming Prosthetics Are Making Minecraft More Inclusive (Cool Weird Awesome 950)

Engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have been building adaptive controllers to make the Minecraft universe more accessible.

By |2024-02-15T06:59:33-05:00February 15, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

John Titor, A “Time Traveler” Who Traveled To The Early Days Of The Internet (Cool Weird Awesome 647)

Today in 2000 that a post appeared on an online forum for the Time Travel Institute from someone who claimed he was a time traveler from the year 2036. Here's the story of John Titor, whoever he actually was. Plus: Build the Earth is an effort to recreate every single spot on our planet, but in the Minecraft universe. 

By |2021-11-02T08:55:50-04:00November 2, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The County Fair That’s Moving To Minecraft This Year (Cool Weird Awesome 343)

While county and state fairs are canceled for 2020, the 4-H group In Morris County, New Jersey, has found a way to bring the fair experience online, as a virtual fair inside the game Minecraft. Plus: Iceland wants you to send them the sounds of you screaming about this frustrating year so they can play those screams on loudspeakers.

By |2020-07-16T07:50:51-04:00July 16, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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