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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...
Media lab complex
Video: Melanie Gonick; time-lapse photography: Guy Hoffman; still images: Andy Ryan; music: 'Flora' by Tod Machover
A peek into the new Media Lab complex which opened last month.
- Media lab complex
- A peek into the new Media Lab complex which opened last month.
- Opera of the future
- MIT Media Lab Professor Tod Machover discusses his robotic opera, Death and the Powers.
- Surround vision
- In the same way that surround sound lets TV viewers hear what’s happening just off-screen, a new system developed by graduate student Santiago Alfar...
- The study of water
- MIT's Aga Khan Professor of Architecture James Wescoat, who specializes in the study of water, uses a decidedly interdisciplinary approach in his rese...
- MIT bubbles
- Mary Hale, MArch '09; and Brandon Roy, MAS PhD candidate '11, discuss their IAP course 'MIT Bubbles: an intro to designing and building in...
- Treatment plants
- Researchers inject fluorescent dye into the water to analyze its flow pattern around plants in a test model.
- Using your 'SixthSense'
- Pranav Mistry discusses 'SixthSense,' a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us us...
- A smarter screen
- Media Lab researchers have created a bidirectional screen capable of both imaging and display. It uses an LCD as a spatial light modulator to support ...
- Reading a tiny barcode from far away
- The Camera Culture group in MIT's Media Lab aims to create a new class of imaging platforms. The group's "Bokode" is a barcode one-...
- Audio, visual
- Metropath(ologies) is an installation about living in a world overflowing with information and non-stop communication.
- Electrochromic windows
- In this design, the relationship between both the active and passive elements of the architecture are programmed as an interactive system where each c...
- The future calls
- The Media Lab's Next Billion Network is looking at ways cell phones can help their next wave of new users.
