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Student research leads to a stroller made for the city

Students say they have a way to make life easier for moms

By Megan Woolhouse

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 28, 2012

Baby strollers can be incompatible with city life, requiring strength, stamina, and a fleet of specialized carriages and carriers to contend with hills, cobblestones, and, in winter, mounds of snow. But now this problem for urban parents has caught the attention of a team of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rhode Island School of Design. They believe they have created a way to help city parents get around more efficiently, building a stroller and harness system called BuzzyBaby.

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