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‘s Infinity-by-Nine system may take [...]

Jet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.   Getting a shot at the doctor’s office may become less painful in the not-too-distant future. MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a [...]

Delphi says its diesel-like engine runs cleanly on gasoline.   Delphi, a major parts supplier to automakers, is developing an engine technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially [...]

A wearable brain scanner could give computers insight into how hard you’re thinking.   Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party’s state [...]

Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That’s bad news not just for the country’s economy but for the future of innovation. In a hangarlike building where General Electric once assembled steam turbines, a [...]

The Oscars of social impact at MIT The world may be complicated and full of problems — but the 37 teams of students in this year’s MIT IDEAS Global Challenge each envisioned a way to [...]

Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care. In this week’s issue of the journal Neurology, researchers at MIT and [...]

The individual grains would pass messages back and forth and selectively attach to each other to form a three-dimensional object New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous [...]

The project could have far reaching implications for a variety of fields. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading an ambitious new project to reinvent how robots are designed and produced. Funded by a [...]

Has the potential for widespread applications from the micro- to macroscale Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, [...]

Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar photovoltaic cells and [...]

In a voice that sounds like yours Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the [...]