The class of 2016 was challenged to do something creative with their acceptance packages. One student decided to launch hers 91,000 feet straight up.
Our feeble little minds can’t process the time that light takes to fill a room, but now we can see it happen in slow-motion with help from the MIT Media Lab and its trillion frames per second camera.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater—Harvard—today on a recruiting swing for the world’s most popular social network. He made another trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well. I caught the (very) brief press conference at MIT, where Zuckerberg only had time to answer a few questions.
Researchers from MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone application called “SignalGuru” that uses the camera from a dashboard-mounted smartphone to capture images of traffic lights. Once the images are captured, they’re analyzed to detect whether the lights are green, yellow or red and then that data is passed along to other nearby SignalGuru users.
Yesterday we mentioned recent predictions that solar power will be as cheap as coal by 2013; today, though, the word is that it will also be a helluva lot easier to generate too.
A research group from MIT’s Media Lab has leveraged commercially available technology to transmit holographic video over the internet.
Mouseless is a self-described “invisible computer mouse that provides the familiarity of interaction of a physical mouse without actually needing a real hardware mouse.”
The MIT-developed Proverbial Wallet appears similar to an ordinary wallet except for the slightly odd looking apparatus in the middle. That’s where all the action happens, though.
The end is near, my friends. A handful of geniuses at Harvard and MIT have developed programmable matter based on origami principles.
The Lemelson-MIT Program was established in 1994 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program “recognizes outstanding inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real-world problems, and enables and inspires young people to pursue creative lives and careers through invention.” Several grants are given out every year, including many to “InvenTeams” made up of high school [...]
The Boy Scouts of America took the wraps of their newest merit badge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s EurekaFest invention fair today. I live near MIT, so I’m here at EurekaFest just like a real-life reporter.
