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A demonstration of the process by which a camera going out of focus can display the contents of a Bokode visual tag.
We show a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products. ...
A device that started out as a class project last fall is moving rapidly toward becoming a commercial product that could make the lives of millions of visually impaired people a bit easier. Karina Pikhart, '09, demonstrates the 6-dot braille labelmaker.
As you scan this visual scene (indicated with green circle), you spot a beaver out of the corner of your eye. As you glance towards it, the image is swapped for a monkey. Using analogous stimuli to produce swaps at specific locations in the visual field, MIT graduate student Nuo Li and ...
Neurons in the visual cortex (area V4) encode the visual scene, and neurons in the FEF portion of prefrontal cortex control the focus of attention. When attention (cone and circle) is directed to the red book, neurons in FEF and V4 (represented by red triangles) start firing rhythmically, and ...
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/neurochemicals-0702.html
C. elegans responding to a touch stimulus
Associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Caspar Hare aims to develop theories of practical rationality that may just help us make real-world decisions. Read more about Hare's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/pr
MIT researchers answer a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle?
In this video, pairs of cells that have been trapped together are fused into single hybrid cells.
In this video, a bead has been loaded with a single kinesin molecule. When the bead comes in contact with a microtubule polymer (the thin rod), the kinesin motor runs unidirectionally on the microtubule polymer at a velocity of 600 - 1000 nm/sec.
Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150. Video: Melanie Gonick; Still Images: Justin Lee/Oliver Yeh
President Obama recognized the 2011 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipients at a White House ceremony on Feb. 1, 2013.
Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science is a student club dedicated to the appreciation of chocolate in all its myriad forms.
The associate professor of transportation and urban planning builds tools that help designers make cities cleaner and greener.
Since its launch in 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories." Claude Canizares, MIT's Vice President for Research and Associate Provost and Bruno Rossi Professor of ...
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up spills.
MIT's community gardens, a pilot program spearheaded by MIT Police Sgt. Cheryl Vossmer and Libraries Administrative Assistant and Public Service Support Associate Ryan Gray, has taken bloom on the roof of the West Garage and along the side of the Albany Street garage. 32 community members ...
Cutta Cutta drinking Cat fanciers appreciate the gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance of their feline friends. But do they know that those traits extend even to the way cats lap milk? Researchers analyzed the way domestic and big cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take ...
The goal of the biological engineering discipline is to advance fundamental understanding of how biological systems operate and to develop effective ...
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