Articles on Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
MIT-developed fabric can turn your shirt into a camera - Jul 8, 2009
Crave This cross section shows two rings of light-sensitive semiconductor material in the fiber. The eight thicker parts are electrodes to carry signals. And you thought it was a problem when ... Read story »Jet engine-inspired FloDesign offers cheaper wind power - Sep 18, 2009
Crave Startup FloDesign Wind, one of a number of companies looking to shake up the wind turbine business, said a prototype of its jet engine-inspired turbine was three times more efficient ... Read story »Cancer-monitoring implant soon - Jul 22, 2009
Crave This little invention could one day reveal tumor metabolism and how it is responding to therapy. The idea of cancer always knocks me out cold with its accompanying consequence of ... Read story »Fil-Am Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake has hunch about new company - Sep 3, 2009
Blogs Can we teach a Web site to help us make better decisions? Caterina Fake has a hunch that this is, indeed, the case--and that it can be the basis for a ... Read story »Blink to take a picture in 2060 - Sep 3, 2009
Crave MIT Media Lab's associate professor, Ramesh Raskar. That's what Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor with MIT's Media Lab, predicts. In an article on Popular Photography's Web site, Raskar paints a ... Read story »Gymnobot swims in water by doing the wave - Sep 25, 2009
Crave Postgraduate researcher Ryan Ladd helped develop Gymnobot at the University of Bath's Ocean Technologies Lab. A robot fish developed at the U.K.'s University of Bath features a unique method of ... Read story »Harnessing the sun's energy to power the world - Sep 30, 2009
Crave Sun Catalytix is pursuing a breakthrough system that would use cheap solar panels to produce hydrogen, which would be stored and then used to produce electricity in a fuel cell. ... Read story »Bionic eye can help visually impaired see better - Sep 28, 2009
Crave MIT's prototype retinal implant consists of a flexible substrate, power and data receiving coils, an electrode array, and a stimulator microchip. Electronic retinal implants that can help certain visually impaired ... Read story »Wheeled robot helps scientists to understand the visually impaired - Oct 22, 2009
Crave Researchers at Caltech have developed a mobile, four-wheeled robot that could help refine artificial retinas and other prostheses used by the visually impaired. At first glance, Cyclops resembles a bot ... Read story »Robot head assists with road navigation - Oct 30, 2009
Crave MIT's concept robot head mounts on the dashboard to assist with navigation. AIDA's robot head can show warning signs. (Credit: MIT) MIT intends to revolutionize GPS navigation by making it friendly ... Read story »SixthSense technology brings wearable gesture interface closer to reality - Nov 23, 2009
Crave We first heard about SixthSense in a Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) presentation by Dr Pattie Mae earlier in February. At TEDIndia this month, MIT grad student Pranav Mistry demoed in ... Read story »Scientists use virus to help build battery - Apr 7, 2009
Crave Angela Belcher, an MIT professor, holds a display of the battery she helped build via a genetically modified M13 virus. The battery (the silver-colored disc) is being used to power a ... Read story »Internet routing going greener soon - Aug 20, 2009
Crave Researchers have come up with a new way to route Internet traffic that could save big Internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by ... Read story »Button camera makes spying easier - Jul 9, 2009
Crave Yesterday, we reported on fabric-like cameras which MIT researchers have developed. However, that invention has yet to be commercialized, so the closest we think you can get to taking pictures ... Read story »Students build Curio House that runs entirely on solar power - Sep 22, 2009
Crave The Boston Architecture School and Tufts University are building the Curio House, a home that's designed to run entirely from solar energy. To build a home powered entirely by the sun, ... Read story »Jump to page: [1] 2
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