The Electome: Where political journalism meets AIBuilt at the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) with support from Twitter and Knight Fou…

Spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion are three major bottlenecks in current imaging technologies for n…

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. U…

Holosuite is an interactive end-to-end 3D telepresence application built for researching the applications of holographic and advanced 3D di…

Are the things we’re inventing for the future taking into account our deepest human needs? The Advancing Wellbeing initiative explores not …

Live Objects are wireless devices that enrich a user’s experience of the surrounding environment. Live Objects are associated with real obj…

From January 25-29, 2016, the MIT Media Lab invited 11 Brazilian educators, researchers, artists, and entrepreneurs to attend the first Lem…

Reality Editor is a new kind of tool that empowers users to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. With Reality Edit…

In an era where bio is the new interface, we are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than manufactured, and d…

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with synthetic mi…

Whether or not we’re experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their fo…

An overview of the MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows Program, a unique program that connects the research from the Lab with communities and …

eyeMITRA allows anyone to easily and non-invasively explore the back of the eye, opening possibilities for new assessments of eye health an…

TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from a piece of still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stre…

The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization. A …

ScratchJr is a new version of the Scratch programming language designed for children ages five to seven. Using ScratchJr, kids can build th…

What if we could train a robot the way we train a pet? With the TAMER project, a technically unskilled user can teach a robot tasks and cor…

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…

WaaZam is a creative telepresence system that allows people to be together in the same window during a networked video session. The goal of…

Need a favor? Reach is a project that merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop dat…

Infinity-by-Nine makes viewing ordinary video more immersive. This system projects extensions to the screen, taking advantage of the reduce…

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…

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element…

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…

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 …

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…

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.

Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with fif…

AUR is a robotic desk lamp, a collaborative lighting assistant. It serves as a non-anthropomorphic robotic platform as part of research on …

Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel pro…

On May 9, 2007, more than 900 attendees from throughout the world joined members of the Media Lab and special guests for h2.0, a symposium …

The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban area…

A short video composed of drawings by John Maeda for the opening of the h20 event.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art—and shar…

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