Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.

Media Lab spinoff company Figur8 has developed a cost-effective, portable system to measure and track human motion.

Before low-earth orbit is clogged with hotels, satellite traffic, and debris, we should plan for the extra-planetary community we want.

Instead of doing one "year in review" post, we invited the Lab community to reflect upon 2018 and what's coming up in 2019.

SkinBot is a palm-sized bipedal robot with suction-cup feet inspired by leeches and the suckers of cephalopods.

“The idea is making wearable robots that move around your body, kind of like small robotic companions that help you."

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D

The TESSERAE project is a design experiment in imagining how to bring the concept of geodesic domes from Earth into orbit.

This is what a trade war looks like.

The 21st annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards honored DermalAbyss with the Scifi No Longer Award, given to "the coolest sc...

Nan-Wei Gong and figur8 are spurring the growth of wearable technology within the sports medicine and digital health sectors.

Members of the Media Lab community to speak at SXSW 2018.

Labbers honored in Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards 2017.

How humans will connect with the Internet of Things

César Hidalgo, head of the Collective Learning research group, and former Responsive Environments researcher Katia Vega, have been chosen...

The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in t...

Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.

Decentralized databases promise to revolutionize medical records, but not until the healthcare industry buys into the idea and gets to work.

Combining tattoos and biotech to create biosensing ink that could one day give us information about our health via our skin.

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.

Textile in G Major

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.

They may one day assemble into a screen on your arm.

Researchers from MIT's Media Lab have developed a tattoo ink that changes colour according to varying glucose and pH levels inside the body.

Researchers at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School teamed up to create tattoo ink that reacts to your body’s chemistry.

In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.

MIT has long been at the forefront of fostering and tracking the creation of new documentary forms.

Edith was a mentor to me, both inside and outside academics, inside and outside the Lab. In our discussions, Edith had a knack for taking...