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 depar... Read more
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 betwee... Read more
A new technique enables the conversion of an ordinary camera into a light-field camera capable of recording high-resolution, multiperspective images. Computational photography is the use of... Read more
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Instit... Read more
A new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography. As striking as it is, the illusion of depth now routinely offered by... Read more
The research institute claims that it can be easily adapted for home theater, gaming and telepresence applications Multiscreen setups for PC gaming are not new, but the latest MIT Media Lab... Read more
Your phone came from China, but that’s just the broad strokes. Pieces of it came from all over the world. With this new mapping tool, you can see the supply chain for all of your things. If... Read more
With a donation of $90 you can order your own Twine through Kickstarter Want to be notified to turn on the AC when a room reaches a certain temperature? Or when your laundry’s done? W... Read more
The distinguished experts attending The Art of Science Learning Workshop in Washington in early April were onto something when they concluded that STEM learning—that is, education in science... Read more
Earlier this month we featured some novel building blocks that help teach robotics to kids, and grew from a project at Carnegie Mellon University. Now it’s MIT’s turn, with the S... Read more
Basically, it takes your name and searches the web for some context around it. It then takes the words and sites it finds to build a profile of your presence on the web. Read more