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The Media Lab Talks with Visionaries
Click the image to view the video on the Media Lab site. The new series Media Lab Conversations will host visionaries who work at the intersection of technology, art, and enterprise. Earlier this week,...
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Media Lab Students Create Mobile Marketplace App
The Media Lab grad students behind Peddl. You know how it is for students at the Media Lab. You get an idea, you write some code, you create a company, or a stellar app. Grad students Matthew...
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You’ll Never Look at Bananas the Same Way Again
The back of the Makey Makey board. Click to enlarge. Bored with your conventional keyboard? Sick of joysticks? Tired of waiting for the bananas to ripen? Use Makey Makey and turn ordinary objects, even...
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What’s Going Up at MIT?
The Novartis project at 181 Massachusetts Avenue. You can answer that question if you spend a little time on a new website, Capital Projects. The renewal of MIT’s physical facilities is duly mapped,...
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You Can’t Hide from this App, Super PACs
Since two judicial decisions were handed down in 2010, super PACs (political action committees) have been allowed to flourish in the political arena, and TV ads have evolved. Gone are the days when the...
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The Ring that Sees it All
EyeRing, developed by Media Lab researchers, can discern currency, color, text, and pricing information. For people with blindness or visual impairments, everyday tasks, like shopping, can prove...
View ArticleStunning Art with Paper and Electronics [Videos]
Jie Qi SM ’12 is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s High-Low Tech group whose creations straddle art, design, technology, and the do-it-yourself philosophy. Slice featured her pop-up book Electronic...
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Mixing MIT and the Sundance Festival
Katie Edgerton G blogged from the Sundance Festival. Is television the “most exciting, most fun cinema”? That’s one proposition that arose in a series of articles about the 2013 Sundance New Frontier...
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Are You Ready for Wearable Computers?
It’s an exciting time to be Thad Starner ’91, SM ’95, PhD ’99. For over twenty years, Starner has been one of only a handful of pioneers to go where no humans have gone before, sporting a wearable...
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Running Again: Alum Helps Victims Dream of Next Year’s Marathon
My doctor told me recently to stop running. He said my knees, like most human knees, have had enough of high-impact exercise after twenty years of road races. He’s the third doctor to tell me so. Maybe...
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Twitter’s New Chief Media Scientist Gets Social TV
Deb Roy When his son was born, Deb Roy SM ’95, PhD ’99 did more that take a few home videos. A cognitive scientist and Media Lab faculty member, Roy installed ceiling cameras in every room of his home...
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New Retirement: Get Advice from MIT Alumni
The head of MIT’s AgeLab asked 200 alumni this summer what advice they would offer for an active and fulfilling retirement. The questioner, Joseph Coughlin, already knows a lot about older people...
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MIT Researchers Develop a Shocking Treatment for Facebook Addiction
Image via medium.com. More than 665 million people use Facebook every day, and the average user spends nearly seven hours per month on the site. For many, Facebook can hover between daily habit and...
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Why Do New Technologies Matter?
An upcoming emerging technology conference that brings together innovators, researchers, and companies plans to answer that question in practical ways. At the annual EmTech conferences, Media Lab head...
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Skycall: Drones to Lead MIT Campus Tours?
Skycall takes off from an MIT rooftop. You can’t sign up for a drone-led campus tour yet, but a small, autonomous flying quadcopter did serve as a personal tour guide during a recent test flight around...
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Email for 3-Year Olds: The Perfect Holiday Gift?
While parents complain about spam and inboxes that seem impossible to tame, their 3-year-olds may be getting inboxes of their own this holiday season. Toymail, the creation of Gauri Nanda SM ’05, is an...
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Shape-Changing Displays Make Virtual Touch Reality
Photo: Tangible Media Group MIT Media Lab’s recent invention of the inForm Dynamic Shape Display demonstrates that reaching through a computer screen may not be so futuristic after all. Under the...
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12 Reasons this Jonah Peretti Post Should Go Viral
Jonah Peretti SM ’01 turned 40 last week. Judging by his work since his Media Lab days, 40 may be the new big thing. The story of his success in the past decade is the story of virality in the 21st...
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Your Next Tomato Might Be Grown by Air
Despite the cold outside, inside MIT’s CityFarm bell peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes are ripening for an early February harvest. Unlike conventional farming methods, many of CityFarm’s plants are...
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How Can Cities Become More Livable?
The winter issue of MIT’s Spectrvm showcases MIT research on making cities more livable, efficient, and sustainable. Certainly, they are growing—by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population is...
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