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January 15, 2013 12:46 am GMT

In Real-Life Mario Kart, Im-A Gonna Win!

Screen Shot 2013-01-14 at 2.23.49 PM"I wish you could play this game in real life."Those words have been muttered by almost everyone who's ever played the game Mario Kart — and if you've played games at all in the past couple decades, chances are you've encountered this classic title. Well, the folks from National Instruments at Waterloo Labs have just answered the prayers of two generations worth of racing, shell-hurling, mystery-box-collecting Mario Kart fans. They've developed a system that uses a variety of electric motors, micro-processors and RFID tags to bring the same gameplay of the video game to real life.

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