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Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

...electronics.The Recompose project (above) in the Tangible Media group at the MIT Media Lab is looking at how digital technologies allow people to manipulate... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

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... Read more

27 September, 2011
MIT's Media Lab 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... 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... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

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

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

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

MIT camera can 'see around corners'

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

22 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Lytro camera lets you focus after you shoot

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

22 June, 2011

Google's Schmidt eyes increased web access

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

18 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

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

...This robotic arm is on display in the main foyer of MIT Media Lab's new building. Its look is inspired by futuristic designs... Read more

30 June, 2010 by Nick Heath
Mashtone - Ringtone Remix 1.2.1

Mashtone - Ringtone Remix 1.2.1

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

9 February, 2012
EyeNetra 2.3

EyeNetra 2.3

...of an ongoing research project in the Camera Culture Group of the MIT Media Lab. We allow the user to interactively align lines to study... Read more

16 September, 2011
Yantra 2.3.1

Yantra 2.3.1

...You choose what better means, and how to get there.Designed by MIT Media Lab Alumni and TED Fellow Seth Raphael in collaboration with Jeff... Read more

19 March, 2011
instructables.com 1.0

instructables.com 1.0

...from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to... Read more

24 August, 2010

'$100 laptops' here by next year

...be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. MIT Media Lab chair Nicholas Negroponte said at the World Summit on the... Read more

17 November, 2005 by Declan McCullagh

News Schmooze: Microsoft wins case, goes back to being evil

The Beast of Redmond won on appeal, wireless companies banded together, Linux leaders raised their voices... Read more

29 June, 2001 by ZDNet UK

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