Outside-the-box thinker
Senior Nathan Spielberg uses 3-D printing to build everything from nanoscale chips to houses.
Department
Media Arts and Sciences (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.
Our connection to content
Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
'This is not a ball' spotlights MIT collaboration
New documentary by visiting artist Vik Muniz features MIT alumni and researchers.
MIT’s Mobile Fab Lab participates in White House Maker Faire
Obama tours MIT-developed trailer containing digital fabrication, design, and manufacturing tools.
Affordable precision printing for pros
MIT spinout Formlabs brings high-resolution, low-cost 3-D printing to makers, engineers and designers.
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.
Glasses-free 3-D projector
New design could also make conventional 2-D video higher in resolution and contrast.
Bionic ankle 'emulates nature'
Bionics pioneer Hugh Herr’s prosthetic ankle mimics the power and control of its biological counterpart.
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.