Departments
Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)
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SproutsIO aims to power a “Personal Produce” movement
Smart, soil-free microgarden lets users optimize growing conditions while cutting water and resource use.
July 26, 2017 -
Coaching platform improves health outcomes, lowers medical costs
New app lets patients work alone or with others to prevent, monitor, and reverse chronic disease.
July 21, 2017 -
Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies
Expanding tissue samples before imaging offers detailed information about disease.
July 17, 2017 -
Ultra-high-contrast digital sensing
Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop.
July 14, 2017 -
Wearable device reveals consumer emotions
Startup’s stress sensor tracks users’ unconscious responses to products and experiences.
July 12, 2017 -
Why do some neighborhoods improve?
Density of highly educated residents, rather than income or housing costs, predicts revitalization.
July 6, 2017 -
Researchers use Kinect to scan T. rex skull
System with $150 worth of hardware offers alternative to 3-D scanners that cost 200 times as much.
July 5, 2017 -
Microfluidics for the masses
New open-source website features blueprints for lab-on-a-chip devices.
June 13, 2017 -
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation
Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases.
June 1, 2017 -
Making prosthetic limbs feel more natural
Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs.
May 31, 2017 -
Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles
Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs.
May 24, 2017 -
Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.
May 19, 2017 -
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visits MIT
Swedish delegation tours Institute, participates in dialogue on innovation.
May 8, 2017 -
3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings
Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.
April 26, 2017 -
A faster single-pixel camera
New technique greatly reduces the number of exposures necessary for “lensless imaging.”
March 29, 2017 -
App screens for arrhythmia using smartphone camera
Startup develops app to detect irregular heartbeats that can cause strokes.
March 29, 2017 -
Income inequality linked to export “complexity”
The mix of products that countries export is a good predictor of income distribution, study finds.
February 16, 2017 -
Smart city fixtures
Startup brings solar-powered, phone-charging park benches and digital signs to cities worldwide.
January 27, 2017 -
Edith Ackermann, developmental psychologist and learning researcher, dies at 70
The former MIT Media Lab faculty member explored the intersections of play, learning, design, and technology.
December 28, 2016 -
DesignX selects first cohort
Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.
December 14, 2016