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... Read more
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 t... Read more
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... Read more
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 long... Read more
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 at... Read more
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 phen... Read more
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 ult... Read more
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 ref... Read more
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... Read more
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
Double a city’s population and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why. In 2010, in the journalNature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Institu... 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
