No more crying over spilled milk
“Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon” brings tech out of the bubble and into the bottle.
Media Lab
MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment
Program aims to develop collaborative technologies to tackle complex social problems.
Media Lab to launch wellness initiative with $1 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
Manual control
Oblong Industries brings gesture-control technology from Hollywood to corporate conference rooms.
Moving forward
PhD student Niaja Farve combines research, entrepreneurship, outreach, and indefatigable drive.
Our connection to content
Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media.
Vision-correcting displays
Technology could lead to e-readers, smartphones, and displays that let users dispense with glasses.
A market for emotions
With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Why networking doesn't work
New study reveals the strength of the strongest ties in collaborative problem solving.
Media Lab to bring more digital tools into newsrooms with $1.2 million Knight Foundation grant
The Future of News initiative aims to bridge the gap between journalism, technology, and civic engagement.