Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper
Drawing carbon nanotubes on paper
MIT postdoc Katherine Mirica has designed a new type of pencil lead in which graphite is replaced with a compressed powder of carbon nanotubes.
Making Wrinkles
Making Wrinkles
A team of researchers at MIT has discovered a way to harness the wrinkling process in a controlled and orderly way.
Paradiso: Extreme Innovators at MIT's Media Lab
Paradiso: Extreme Innovators at MIT's Media Lab
Joseph A. Paradiso, MIT Media Lab Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Co-Director, Things That Think Joseph Paradiso directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and ...
Paradiso: ML and Industry
Paradiso: ML and Industry
Joseph A. Paradiso, MIT Media Lab Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Co-Director, Things That Think Joseph Paradiso directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception. In addition, he ...
Paradiso: The Planet's Evolving Electronic Nervous System
Paradiso: The Planet's Evolving Electronic Nervous System
Joseph A. Paradiso, MIT Media Lab Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Co-Director, Things That Think Joseph Paradiso directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and ...
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Gregory W. Wornell
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: Gregory W. Wornell
Professor Gregory W. Wornell of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of information encoding, extraction, and manipulation.
Seeing Robotics with New Eyes
Seeing Robotics with New Eyes
With the help of the Kinect, Bilibot navigates, locates objects, and uses its robotic arm.
Blocks + Computing = A new kind of interface
Blocks + Computing = A new kind of interface
Technology Review IT Editor Erica Naone demonstrates Sifteo's new gaming hardware--interactive blocks that sense their physical orientation and detect each other.
Plenary Session: Participatory Sensing: from ecosystems to ...
Plenary Session: Participatory Sensing: from ecosystems to human systems
Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, UCLA; Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. 10/12/2009
Session I: Designing for Doubt: Citizen Science and the ...
Session I: Designing for Doubt: Citizen Science and the Challenge of Change
Eric Paulos (Carnegie Mellon). 10/12/2009
The Cloud
The Cloud
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, ...