Topic
Media Lab
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Affordable precision printing for pros
MIT spinout Formlabs brings high-resolution, low-cost 3-D printing to makers, engineers and designers.
June 3, 2014 -
President of Turkey visits MIT
Abdullah Gul views research projects, meets with faculty, students, and administration
June 2, 2014 -
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.
May 18, 2014 -
Glasses-free 3-D projector
New design could also make conventional 2-D video higher in resolution and contrast.
May 16, 2014 -
Bionic ankle 'emulates nature'
Bionics pioneer Hugh Herr’s prosthetic ankle mimics the power and control of its biological counterpart.
April 17, 2014 -
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa visits MIT
Correa and delegation meet with Provost Martin Schmidt and others.
April 9, 2014 -
Lemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners
$50,000 awarded to undergraduate and graduate student inventors
April 9, 2014 -
Orienteering for robots
Algorithm for determining orientation of objects could aid robots in navigation, scene understanding.
April 4, 2014 -
Power (of electronics) to the people
Alumna Ayah Bdeir’s fast-growing startup littleBits, which sells connectable electronic modules, is helping people understand and build creatively with electronics.
January 15, 2014 -
App Inventor launches second iteration
Since its 2009 creation, more than a million people have registered to use App Inventor, which is now based out of the MIT Media Lab.
December 30, 2013 -
Multiview 3-D photography made simple
A new technique enables the conversion of an ordinary camera into a light-field camera capable of recording high-resolution, multiperspective images.
June 19, 2013 -
J.J. Abrams: 'It’s like driving in the fog'
Movie and television writer-producer shares his thoughts on how his production company compares with MIT’s Media Lab.
November 28, 2012 -
Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearer
A new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography.
July 12, 2012 -
Pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock, former MIT professor, dies at age 89
Inventive MIT filmmaker helped create cinéma vérité style with path-breaking documentaries
March 25, 2011 -
TV outside the box
Using ordinary cell phones, a Media Lab system would let television programs spill off the TV screen and into the living room.
April 9, 2010 -
Natural inspiration
Neri Oxman strives to bring architecture to life
May 6, 2009