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Electronic Paint1977

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#TBT to 1977 and the Architecture Machine Group, as Paul Pangaro demonstrates one of the first paint programs, which was featured in the cover story of the October 1977 issue of Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/1977/10/ More in
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[Bike] Swarm

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As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, and the hazards of traffic less dangerous.Imagine that as solitary bikes come together, their lights begin to pulsat
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Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

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Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication channels with plant organisms in nature are subtle - whether it be looking at their color, orientation, moisture, positi
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Aguahoja: A water-based design approach and fabrication platform

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Nature made us half water. With water, the biological world facilitates customization of an organism’s physical and chemical properties—through growth and degradation—as a function of genes and environmental constraints. Designed goods, however—including
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Flying through a fly's brain

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Can flying through the fly brain bring us insight into how the fly flies? Learn more about this new approach to combining lattice-sheet microscopy with expansion microscopy, developed by researchers from the Media Lab's Synthetic Neurobiology group and co
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Getting submarines talking to airplanes, finally

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Until recently, there has never been a way to send communication signals between air and water. If an underwater submarine passes beneath a plane in the sky, there's been no way for them to communicate with each other without having the submarine surface,
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Technology for communication with the Deaf

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At #MLBerlin, Media Lab Director's Fellow Christine Sun Kim and Joi Ito discuss the app her team built for improving communication with the Deaf by crowdsourcing a data set for American Sign Language. Video by Elisa Cucinelli. More information at: https:/
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Time-Folded Optics

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With the rapid development of faster frame rates and more light-sensitive camera sensors, why aren't camera lenses quickly evolving as well? Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group are addressing that question with a new way to utilize tim
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The Broken Flaneur

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What's the point of flanerie if there's nothing to see? Technology has the power to disappear the world in front of our eyes. The Broken Flaneur is a short film shot and produced in less than 24 hours with special effects that are enabled by a generative
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

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The proliferation of AI has hindered our ability to understand its emerging behavior. TuringBox is a digital market that facilitates both the behavioural study of AI and the production of new, socially-aware AI. Visit us online at turingbox.mit.edu and ch
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Programmable Droplets

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Biologists in a lab spend, on average, 30-50% of their time manually moving fluids using disposable pipettes. Programmable Droplets are a low-cost lab-on-a-chip designed to make testing cheaper, faster, and more portable for biological sampling. Using ele
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RFind: Extreme Localization for Billions of Items

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From the Signal Kinetics group at the MIT Media Lab: RFind, a new technology that allows us to transform low-cost, battery-free wireless stickers into powerful radars. By placing one of these stickers on any object, we can locate it with extreme accuracy.
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Reading through closed books

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Spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion are three major bottlenecks in current imaging technologies for non-invasive inspection of complex samples such as closed books. We empower the time-of-flight capabilities of conventional THz time domai
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Celebrating Scratch

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What is Scratch, and why is it important? Ten years after Scratch was first released, hear from users of all ages as well as Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, and other members of the Scratch team at the MIT Media Lab. Music by Lullatone
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Transformative Appetite

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Initiated from Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Transformative Appetite is our attempt to create shape changing food that transforms from 2D to 3D by hygromorphic interaction through cooking. The transformation process is well compatible with ‘flat pa
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Collaboration in Room-Scale Virtual Reality

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Play collaborative games, draw in 3D, and unlock the possibilities of VR: We present CocoVerse, a shared immersive virtual reality environment in which users interact with each other and create and manipulate virtual objects using a set of hand-based too
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Expansion Pathology

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Enlarging clinical samples for imaging to understand the building blocks of pathologies with nanoscale precision. A new microscopy technique from Ed Boyden's research team could enable higher-resolution biopsies. Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/post
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DeepMoji

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DeepMoji is a model that uses millions of tweets to learn about emotional concepts in text like sarcasm and irony. Learn more: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/deepmoji/overview/ This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internat
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RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs

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RFly is a new drone-based wireless technology that can help companies save billions of dollars in misplaced items and faulty inventory in their warehouses. Consider that the smallest Walmart warehouse is larger than 17 football fields, making it impossibl
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Auto-Inflatables

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Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-demand, we are able to induce a wide range of interaction-triggered transformations in our designs. These include changes
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AlterEgo: Interfacing with devices through silent speech

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AlterEgo is a wearable system that allows a user to silently converse with a computing device without any voice or discernible movements — thereby enabling the user to communicate with devices, AI assistants, applications, or other people in a silent, con

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