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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants

New technology for next-generation wireless + batteryless micro-implantsThese wireless batteryless micro-chips can reprogram themselves i...
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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Are you still here?

An open source digital instrument to check if institutions still exist, and alert when they don't exist anymore.The instrument periodical...
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
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Signal Kinetics team wins Explorer Prize in Ocean Observing Prize's DISCOVER Competition

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.
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Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
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Social Computing

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
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Reality Editor 2.0

The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
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Reality Editor

The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
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RePose

Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...
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Zensei: Embedded, Multi-Electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

We introduce Zensei, an implicit sensing system that leverages bio-sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to classify uninstrum...
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Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

Munehiko Sato, Rohan S. Puri, Alex Olwal, Yosuke Ushigome, Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Deepak Chandra, Ivan Poupyrev, and Ramesh Raskar. 2017. Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3972-3985.
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RoomScope

RoomScope is an immersive real-time architectural sensor visualization using Microsoft HoloLens.
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