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The MIT Museum Shop This is the place to shop for your favorite scientist. You'll find technological toys, books, calendars, and gifts that handle all that MIT brain power with a sense of humor - such as the MIT "Nerd Pride" mug ($6.95), or a pocket protector ($1.25). The shop also honors some of the spectacular exhibitions at the MIT Museum. Check out the holographic collection before you stop by the store to buy holographic pens and stickers. Like the MFA, the MIT Museum Shop offers a catalog; call the number above. THE MIT MUSEUM SHOP Location: 365 Mass. Ave., Cambridge Phone: 617-253-4462 Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. Get directions High end: A limited edition set of signed sports photographs taken by the legendary MIT professor Doc Edgerton, who invented strobe photography, goes for $900. Low end: Solve your problems a day at a time with the math calendar, for $9.95. There are adult and children's versions. Also, a great stocking stuffer for the next John Glenn: freeze-dried ice cream, just like they eat on space shuttles, for $1.99. Dribbling robots: Last week, the Robot Cup soccer tourney was held in Singapore. You can buy and assemble a microchip-powered soccer player for $42.95; buy two ($79.95) and they can play one-on-one. Another robot for sale, the 5-foot-tall Commander, can open and close its mouth, reach and grasp, and move its visor up and down. $199.95. Those crazy kids: Remember when MIT pranksters maneuvered a model of a police car to the top of the revered dome on campus? Relive those golden moments of outwitting the powers-that-be in the book "Pranks at MIT." $20.95.

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