Tag Archives: MIT

Comedy Hack Day’s Pizzicato Privy Redefines ‘Shit Music’

When we arranged to bring Comedy Hack Day to the MIT Media Lab, we hoped it would produce more hardware than we had seen in the past. And sure enough, we soon wound up facing the question: Does the stage have enough room for a toilet? Team Pizzicato Privy, comprised …

Comedy Hack Day’s Runner Up Sly Sound Is “Hipster Shazam”

Knowing about music makes you cool, but looking up music makes you uncool; that is the paradox at the center of Sly Sound. Created by Trevor Burnham and Wes Hazard, the mobile app that works like Shazam without looking like Shazam took second place at this weekend’s Comedy Hack Day …

Truth For Humanity Revealed At Comedy Hack Day

It only took three Comedy Hack Days to finally expose the truth. The MIT Media Lab played host to this weekend’s hackathon, which brought together 14 teams of comedians and developers in a contest to crown the most hilarious app, site, or musical toilet. The five-person team that called itself …