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Persuasive Electric Vehicle

The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
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PEV: videos
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
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Project Research

CityCar

The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility ...
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Article Research

The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

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...
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Lyme disease is spreading, and it’s partly this mouse’s fault

Black-legged ticks in forests of the Northeast and Midwest have a variety of options for the three blood meals they consume in their life...
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Article Research

Escape from the Horror of 2017 by Becoming a Tree

Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
Article Research

The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

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

Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
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If you were a tree

Virtual reality creates a new perspective in storytelling and engagement.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.