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The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...
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Many drugs, such as monoclonal antibodies, are administrated using parenteral delivery devices via subcutaneous injections. Unfortunately...
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
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IdeaA lab is where unique ideas are generated and early prototypes are synthesized. A factory is where designs are mass produced and qual...
Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
Can drones find missing items? Every year, companies lose billions of dollars due to misplaced items and faulty inventory records in thei...
Wireless networks—consisting of WiFi, LTE, RFIDs, and millimeter-wave devices—have become integral parts of our everyday lives. Our resea...
Pain is a subjective experience commonly measured through patients' self reports. Unfortunately, self-report measures only work when...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
A Wearable Olfactory Display That Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental WellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable ...
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Gravity is the anchor of all existences on earth, pulling the chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even ...
The Blank Canvas directs immersion inwards using Virtual Reality, augmenting awareness of the microscopic worlds inside each of us and th...
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in citie...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
Gammalan is an interactive musical experience that uses music information retrieval techniques in conjunction with game design principles...
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Optogenetic techniques have recently been applied to peripheral nerves as a scientific tool with the translatable go...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...
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The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key c...
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, ...
We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TE...
The need for inexpensive 3D display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to increase in popularity. Funnel Visio...
Open Algorithms (OPAL)
Property: uses Legilimency (« mind reading »)The Thinking Cap provides help to students in need: legilimency enables the cap to look into...
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
Mnemo is a prosthetic memory system to extend the capabilities of human memory. Mnemo uses physiological signals as well as machine learn...
We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
SCUBA diving as a sport has enabled people to explore the magnificent ocean diversity of beautiful corals, striking fish, and mysterious ...
This work explores the design of techniques based on the cognitive illusion of "inattentional blindness" which is a failure to notice som...
During the gait cycle, the human ankle complex serves as a primary power generator while simultaneously stabilizing the entire limb. Thes...
Lower-extremity amputees face a series of potentially serious post-operative complications. Among these are increased risk of further amp...
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. Shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel, however, lie unique ecos...
Biplanar fluoroscopy (BiFlo) enables three-dimensional bone kinematics analysis using x-ray videos and bone geometry from segmented...
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evol...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...