Media Lab researchers have produced textiles that conform to the body and sense the wearer’s posture and motions. Their “smart” shoes and mats could be used in applications ranging from health care to prosthetics to modern dance.

Before co-founding Piction Health, Susan Conover SM ’15 experienced a long, anxious wait to see a dermatologist. Now, her startup uses machine learning to help doctors classify certain skin conditions so patients can “get the care they need at the right time,” she says.

The New York Times reports that MIT startup VulcanForms has developed a 3-D printer that can “generate 100 times the laser energy of most 3-D printers.” Co-founder Martin Feldmann notes that “additive manufacturing lets us rethink how we build things.”

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Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula serves as a crucial link between cryptocurrency developers and central banks. “We want to understand the implications of different technology designs,” she says, because ready or not, “money is really changing.”

LIDS researchers are helping to make features used in machine-learning models more understandable for end users. “Out in the real world,” Alexandra Zytek says, “there is still a lot of confusion stemming from the features, not from the model itself.”