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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
Device provides information from a 3-D camera, via vibrating motors and a Braille interface.
MIT linQ announces 2017 class of IDEA^2 Global
Fifteen international teams developing new biomedical technologies to benefit from innovation training and expert resources.
Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.
Detecting walking speed with wireless signals
By measuring this emerging vital sign, CSAIL system could help monitor and diagnose health issues like cognitive decline and cardiac disease.
Revolutionizing global health
In more than 20 years working on wireless sensors and radio frequency identification (RFID), Richard Fletcher has produced several startups and over a dozen patents.
App screens for arrhythmia using smartphone camera
Startup develops app to detect irregular heartbeats that can cause strokes.
Uncovering new ways to tell sports and media stories
Ben Shields' research focuses on the intersection of social media technologies, data analytics, and audience behavior in the sports, media, and entertainment industries.
Two from MIT recognized as outstanding engineering leaders
Grad students Kristen Railey and Alexander Feldstein were named to the Aviation Week Network’s “20 Twenties” for 2017.
Printing data-driven wearables that mimic nature
MIT lecturer Jessica Rosenkrantz writes programs mimicking processes in nature to "grow" objects that can be digitally fabricated.
Virtual-reality system for the elderly wins health care prize
Eight student teams pitched novel inventions at MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.
Living sensors at your fingertips
Cell-infused gloves and bandages light up when in contact with certain chemicals.
MIT linQ names first IDEA^2 Global awardees
Twelve finalist teams pitched diverse new health care technologies at MIT.
Voice control everywhere
Low-power special-purpose chip could make speech recognition ubiquitous in electronics.
Canan Dagdeviren joins the Media Lab
Assistant professor leads new Conformable Decoders research group, with a mission to convert patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy.