Media Lab

Ramesh Raskar, left, holds box with conventional barcode,
while Ankit Mohan holds a prototype of new Bokode.

Barcodes for the rest of us

Tiny labels could pack lots of information, enable new uses

July 24, 2009

Scratch Day goes global

Conference on programming language spans 100 sites

May 12, 2009

Processing time

May 5, 2009

Hiroshi Ishii with one of his early projects, bottles that play music when their stoppers are removed.

Ishii makes the virtual tangible

A 'hands-on' approach to computers

April 6, 2009

Video artist Bill Viola, left, tries out the 'wall' in the Tangible Bits lab with the help of graduate student Jamie Zigelbaum.

Back to school

Video artist Viola, winner of McDermott award, samples new technologies during weeklong residency at MIT

March 19, 2009

Media Lab student Amit Zoran shows the Chameleon Guitar, along with a variety of the interchangeable soundboards -- made of different woods and other materials -- that can be inserted to alter the guitar's acoustic characteristics.

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Guitar built by a student at MIT's Media Lab promises to provide the best of electronic and acoustic.

February 3, 2009

Bringing the power of information to the people

New software helps locals deal with natural gas companies

December 2, 2008

David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group.

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the movies

November 18, 2008

Tuning in to unconscious communication

MIT researchers discover revealing clues in conversations

October 21, 2008

Traditional flat screen displays (bottom left) present 2-D images. 3-D and 4-D displays have been proposed making use of lenslet arrays to shape a fixed outgoing light field for horizontal or bidirectional parallax (top left).

MIT developing super-realistic image system

'6-D' pictures can look just like the real thing

August 7, 2008

A screenshot from Scratch's 'Critters Cafe,' a critique group for programmers who want to focus on animation and story telling.

Created from Scratch

Worldwide users to share ideas on innovative programming tool

July 21, 2008

Media Lab celebrates co-founder Davenport's career

Symposium honors interactive media pioneer's legacy

June 25, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Digital Fabrication

May 21, 2008

A screenshot from AudiOdyssey, an experimental computer game designed by MIT and Singaporean students to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers.

Singapore-MIT game lets visually impaired share the fun

May 13, 2008

MIT Media Lab announces two new associate directors

Will aid in defining strategic direction

May 6, 2008

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