MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT’s Architecture Machine Group in the School of Architecture

A comfortable form-fitting smart fabric recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping

Better control of prosthetic limbs using magnets

Giving robots superhuman perception

An interactive touchscreen display that can be sprayed in any shape

Could proteins halt the severe cytokine storms seen in Covid-19 patients?

The dawn of cyborg botany : Introducing a plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfaced with a robotic extension that drives it toward light. Plants are electrically active systems. They get bio-electrochemically excited and conduct these signals between tissues and organs. Such electrical signals are produced in

The dawn of cyborg botany : Introducing a plant-robot hybrid

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense food contamination

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination. MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination — with no hardware modifications needed. With the simple, scalable system, the researchers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense food contamination

Exploring the ethics of autonomous vehicles globally and regionally

Massive global survey reveals ethics preferences and regional differences. A massive new survey developed by MIT researchers reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those preferences. The survey has global reach and a unique scale, with over 2 million online participants from over 200

Exploring the ethics of autonomous vehicles globally and regionally

Wireless water-air communications breakthrough for data transmission between underwater and airborne devices

In a novel system developed by MIT researchers, underwater sonar signals cause vibrations that can be decoded by an airborne receiver. MIT researchers have taken a step toward solving a longstanding challenge with wireless communication: direct data transmission between underwater and airborne devices. Today, underwater sensors cannot share data with those on land, as both

Wireless water-air communications breakthrough for data transmission between underwater and airborne devices

Your new tattoo could also monitor your health without batteries

Researchers aim beyond wearables with project combining art, medicine Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises. The work, conducted by two postdoctoral fellows at Harvard Medical School and colleagues led by Katia Vega at MIT’s

Your new tattoo could also monitor your health without batteries

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Algorithms exploiting light’s polarization boost resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light — the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D movie systems — they can increase the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging devices as much as 1,000 times. The technique could lead to

Making 3-D imaging 1,000 times better

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Mathematical modeling enables $100 depth sensor to approximate the measurements of a $100,000 piece of lab equipment MIT researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system that could ultimately replace a $100,000 piece of a lab equipment with components that cost just hundreds of dollars. The system uses a technique called fluorescence lifetime imaging, which has

Biomedical imaging at one-thousandth the cost

Glasses-free 3-D projector

New design could also make conventional 2-D video higher in resolution and contrast. Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could provide a cheaper, more practical alternative to holographic video in the short term.

Glasses-free 3-D projector

Printed Electronics: A Multi-Touch Sensor Customizable With Scissors

A new circuit layout makes it robust against cuts, damage, and removed areas. If a pair of long pants is too long, it is cut to length. A board that does not fit into a bookcase is sawed to the right length. People often customize the size and shape of materials like textiles and wood

Printed Electronics: A Multi-Touch Sensor Customizable With Scissors

Downloadable Soil Sensors Can Be Printed by Local Farmers

In the future farmers will be able to download their own sensors To help farmers irrigate their crops more efficiently and save water, Yoshihiro Kawahara, an Associate Professor in the department of Information and Communication Engineering at The University of Tokyo, developed paper-printable sensors that provide real-time measurements of soil moisture. Kawahara worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of

Downloadable Soil Sensors Can Be Printed by Local Farmers

Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel

But I wondered, what if there could be no boundary at all? Throughout the history of computers we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap between our physical world and the world in the screen where our imagination can go wild. And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter,and now this gap is shortened

Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel

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Turning Ideas into Action: LESA 2023 Brings Together Industries and #Sustain-ablers to Ensure Earth's Survival
The Asia School of Business' (ASB) Leadership for Enterprise Sustainability Asia (LESA) 2023 Conference has concluded with impactful solutions for ...
'Star Trek: Picard' season 3 episode 6 beams in Trek cameos aplenty
Picard' season 3 episode 6, The Bounty, the cameos are stacking up with Geordi and maybe Data, and it's a bit excessive.
Why ‘lab leak’ proponents are unconvinced by raccoon dog evidence for coronavirus origins
To a faction of researchers who maintain that the coronavirus was the result of a laboratory accident, recent findings involving raccoon dogs failed to produce convincing evidence.
Sharing More Lessens Accuracy On Social Media
As a social media user, you can be eager to share content. You can also try to judge whether it is true or not. But for many people it is difficult to prioritize both these things at once.That’s the ...
Everything you know about computer vision may soon be wrong
Computer vision could be a lot faster and better if we skip the concept of still frames and instead directly analyze the data stream from a camera. At least, that’s the theory that the newest ...

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Dr. Ali Mazalek on founding TMU’s Synaesthetic Media Lab and bridging the gap between the physical and digital
Mazalek is the founder and director of TMU’s Synaesthetic Media Lab (Synlab) housed in The Creative School, a research playground at the forefront of trends in computing and interaction design, where ...
A technique called Cell Painting could speed drug discovery
This motto drives a lab at Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute ... hopes the database will accelerate drug discovery by helping researchers identify promising compounds and get a better sense ...
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[Valentin] realized that our new interfaces aren’t making our lives much simpler, and both he and the folks at MIT Media Labs have developed a solution. Open Hybrid takes the interface out of ...
Dell and MIT Media Labs: Big Innovation requires Flexibility and Agility
Dell hopes that flexible and agile IT solutions will enable customers to be as innovative as MIT’s Media Lab. When you think about it, predictability is an IT requirement, but it doesn't create ...
Discovery Labs: Pump Up the Volume
On Wednesday, Discovery Labs announced that the FDA deemed "reasonable" its proposed program to improve testing for Surfaxin, a drug aimed at treating respiratory distress syndrome in premature ...