Why is this here?

Because MIT students did it.

Let's not mention that commercially available kits to convert this exact car to electric have been around for YEARS. High school kids are doing this.

It just goes to show 'ya... Tacking "MIT" on to a story will buy you some extra attention.

Sic Transit Mundis.

Yes you may all laugh at a bomb made of peroxide and Tang, but liquid explosives on planes is not an un-tested idea.

"On December 11, 1994, Yousef built another bomb, which had one tenth of the power that his final bombs were planned to have, in the lavatory of an aircraft. He left it inside the life jacket under his seat, 26K, and got off the plane when it arrived in Cebu. .... Yousef had set the timer for four hours after he got off the aircraft. The bomb exploded while the aircraft was over Minami Daito Island, near Okinawa, Japan. A Japanese businessman named Haruki Ikegami was killed after the bomb detonated."

Form this Wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot

Maybe I'm missing the point.

This seems like a really expensive way to replace a simple stove top pot.

Rice is just not that hard to cook.....

Re:#6 I expect the aerodynamic drag of this is greater than a simple tube, so, maybe not so good as a road bike.

Every week there is a new example of some engineering (or worse I.D.) grad student's wet dream. Some marketing fool takes the idea and a whole business plan is spun up out of Bucky Ball and nano spit.

People have been reinventing the bike for 100 years and every once in a while a small incremental improvement is made.

This is not one of them.

CKD,

The numbers you are using for Tokyo include a huge rural area, in essence you are comparing a 'state' to a 'city'.

The population density (as of 2003) of urban Tokyo is 13,416/km^2, about 2x the density of Cambridge, MA.

The tallest building in Cambridge is on the MIT campus and it's NOT a residence. Tokyo is a huge, crowded, bustling, urban city. Cambridge is a small, quiet, college town with a big bio-tech industry and a traffic problem.

Please review your 'statistics'.

While doing research for a new fridge I found that water/ice dispensers sometimes create service problems. A generally reliable (and expensive) appliance becomes a bit less reliable with the addition on these options.

oxox

Are you serious? This is confusing? Stop thinking so hard.

Have you seen the quote...

"Our dream is that 20 years from now, people won't go to bike racks--they'll go to leg racks,"

Leave it to MIT to try to make the wheel obsolete.

That's clever #12, is that supposed to be legible?

Why so much fixation on a keyboard? Obviously everyone is used to having one attached to their computer, but if it's detachable, then you have the option of using it OR.. leaving it behind.