media lab articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity
Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

...MIT's famed Media Lab is like a playground for really smart techies and artists.The... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica
MIT's <endeca_term>Media Lab</endeca_term> opens its doors

MIT's Media Lab opens its doors

...One of the projects to come out of the MIT Media Lab is the SmartCities effort, which re-imagines transportation in the city... Read more

18 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica
Proverbial wallets teach owners to budget

Proverbial wallets teach owners to budget

...Researchers in the Information Ecology group at the MIT Media Lab have developed wallets that can shrink, expand, buzz or tighten up... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

Photos: The weird and wonderful inventions from MIT's Media Lab

...The Media Lab's I/O Brush is an electronic paintbrush able to capture... Read more

30 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
<endeca_term>Media Lab</endeca_term> Encounter 2.0

Media Lab Encounter 2.0

Media Lab Encounter helps the sponsors and researchers navigate the lab during the... Read more

3 February, 2011
Researchers show off flexible PaperPhone

Researchers show off flexible PaperPhone

...flexible e-ink display. The researchers at the Queen's University Human Media Lab in Ontario worked with the E Ink Corporation, which provides the... Read more

9 May, 2011 by David Meyer

Book Review: The Filter Bubble

Ever since about 1995, when Nicholas Negroponte, then head of the MIT Media Lab, began talking about The Daily Me, a newspaper that would be... Read more

27 September, 2011

Photos: Are bendy e-ink prototypes the shape of mobiles to come?

...610-458-snaplet-tablet.jpg" alt="Snaplet: Queen's University's Human Media Lab shows off a flexible e-ink mobile wrist-mounted device prototype... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Photos: Print-at-home chocolate to robot snakes - 10 weirdest items made by 3D printers

...materials built by 3D printers. Students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have developed a way of printing out concrete, a building material... Read more

1 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...communicate and co-ordinate their movements. The research, undertaken at the MIT Media Lab in 1997, was inspired by the co-operative and social behaviours... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
MIT camera can 'see around corners'

MIT camera can 'see around corners'

...it was totally ridiculous," Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, said in the statement. Using the same principle as a periscope... Read more

22 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

MIT develops smartphone clip-on to detect cataracts

...in a person's eye. Photo credit: Erick Passos/MIT Developed by Media Lab Camera Culture group director Ramesh Raskar and colleagues, the Catra system... Read more

6 July, 2011 by Tim Hornyak

Lytro camera lets you focus after you shoot

...systems. The plenoptic camera idea comes from work done at the MIT Media Lab in 1992 by John Wang and Edward Adelson. In 2005, they... Read more

22 June, 2011

Google's Schmidt eyes increased web access

...an interview on stage at the 25th anniversary celebration of the MIT Media Lab on Friday, shortly after Google announced strong third-quarter earnings. During... Read more

18 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica
Mashtone - Ringtone Remix 1.2.1

Mashtone - Ringtone Remix 1.2.1

...Nest, a music intelligence company co-founded in 2005 by two MIT Media Lab PhDs Read more

9 February, 2012

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 hour ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

17 hours ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
dede0202

Hello ALL USERS OF THE PIRATE BAY I WOULD PUT AN EXPLANATION ON PIRACY Story Idea ILLIGALE AND SHARING THOSE THAT NET Dissent NOT WELL BUT TO CA...

1 day ago by dede0202 on The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

1 day ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

1 day ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Roberto_Store

Now On Sale, Unlocked iPhone 4S / Galaxy Note In Factory Box. Roberto-Techie(UK) ”Now on Sales” Smartphone, Android,Tablets,Gadget &...

2 days ago by Roberto_Store on Samsung Galaxy S III lined up for sale
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

2 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

2 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

2 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

2 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

2 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
songmaster

SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...

2 days ago by songmaster on Software with everything
Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

2 days ago by Chris Wortman via Facebook on Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release
PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

3 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Leslie Satenstein

Mozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...

3 days ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
Andy Bolstridge

Much as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...

3 days ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
craigsc

You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...

3 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves