IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Contemporary 3D printing and traditional craft rarely meet in the same creation. The Hybrid Basketry project merges these two distinct trad…
MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…
Founder and Director of The Governance Lab Beth Noveck in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.
WaaZam is a creative telepresence system that allows people to be together in the same window during a networked video session. The goal of…
Former Disney CTO Greg Brandeau and collaborative community artist Josh Sarantitis in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Susan Crawford in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.
Baratunde Thurston in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Need a favor? Reach is a project that merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop dat…
Music has been shown to be an essential part of the human experience---every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it ma…
Infinity-by-Nine makes viewing ordinary video more immersive. This system projects extensions to the screen, taking advantage of the reduce…
Professor Mitra’s work has resulted in the training and development of a million young Indians, some being the poorest children in the world
Ever played piano on bananas? With Makey Makey and an alligator clip, you can connect the internet to just about anything.
Mood Meter is an interactive installation that encourages, recognizes, and monitors the smiles of a community, providing an indicator of em…
Howard Rheingold in conversation with Joi and Mimi Ito.
What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element…
Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.
Reid Hoffman in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Out of (Line of) Sight, But Not Out of View. The Camera Culture group at the Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femt…
One Way Forward: Lawrence Lessig in conversation.
NewsFlash uses a unique screen-to-phone data exchange to provide an interactive way to experience current events through dynamic interactio…
Mediated Matter research integrates computational form-finding strategies with biologically inspired fabrication in order to enhance the re…
Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within …
IDEO's Tim Brown in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT’s 150th an…
Part of a suite of portable projects for eyecare, CATRA is a new way to detect and quantify cataracts. CATRA is a compact eyepiece attached…
A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity…
Qooqle is a mobile system that frees us from the confines of search boxes by integrating digital information directly into our everyday act…
The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random laptops, cellphones and tablets and stitch them together into a large, virtual displ…
Music | Machines - Professor Tod Machover in conversation with the team from Death and the Powers.
There’s no such thing as a “typical” Media Lab student. Current Media Arts and Sciences graduate students discuss their research, what it’s…
Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.
Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tou…
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to use mobile phones to measure refractive errors of the eye, i…
LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information device…
iCalm is a small, wearable, wireless sensor platform for long-term sensing of physiological information along with low-cost connectivity to…
People express and communicate their mental states—such as emotions, thoughts, and desires—through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…
The Comm.unity platform enables mobile devices to discover and communicate with each other in close proximity. It also transforms these dev…
The New Media Medicine research group believes that it’s time for a power shift in health care. As a society, we have dramatically underest…
Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses student life with student Taemie Kim.