most recent videos
Self-oscillating gelsSelf-oscillating gels are materials that continuously change back and forth between different states — such as color or size — without provocation...
IceWallAs part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology the IceWall instillation consists of blocks of ice stacked on each other, with seeds frozen in ...
Green GreaseStudents from MIT's Biodiesel team organizes the project, called Green Grease, and they traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil last summer to begin the impleme...
The origins of 2.007
Video: AMPS MIT Video Productions; additional editing: Melanie Gonick
Professor of Engineering Woodie Flowers discusses course 2.70 and how it evolved into MIT's annual 2.007 Mechanical Engineering Robot Contest.
Watch the full documentary.
- Cushions
of air - This video shows several views of a “drop test” of an air-bag system being designed for a space capsule. During these drops, the accelerations exp...
- Characterizing wireless channels
- Building a reliable theory of location detection required highly accurate information about how a wireless signal changes when its source moves, whic...
- Reaching out
- Yi Wang ’09 discusses her work in the D-Lab and her participation in the ReachOut program, a literacy tutoring program that matches MIT students wi...
- All charged up
- A time-lapse video showing members of MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team working on the conversion of a car and a motorcycle from conventional gasoline pow...
- Wheels of opportunity
- Tish Scolnik ’10 received two Fellowship awards from the Public Service Center to continue her work on appropriate attachments like a collapsible de...
- Transformers
- Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffness upon command. Here Erik Demaine explains ...
- Light waves
- Professor Erich Ippen discusses research and education in the Optics and Quantum Electronics Group.
- Stay connected
for your health - Sana is a multidisciplinary group of students that developed an innovative open-source platform that allows mobile phones to capture and send data to ...
- It's a bird,
it's a plane - MIT researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a control system that lets a foam glider land on a per...
- Center for Excitonics
- The Center for Excitonics is a collaboration between MIT, Harvard and Brookhaven National Laboratory aiming to supersede traditional electronics with ...
- Eye Phone
- Developed by a team from the MIT Media Lab, the Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment (NETRA) can affix to a cell phone to allow inexpensive eye exa...
- What is the Semantic Web?
- Sandro Hawke, systems architect for the World Wide Web Consortium, discusses the new standards that will bring the Semantic Web a step closer to reali...
