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MIT researchers have developed a stretchy optical fiber in which they have injected multiple organic dyes (yellow, blue, and green regions). In addition to lighting up, the dyes act as a strain sensor, enabling researchers to quantify where and by how much a fiber has been stretched.

Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Biocompatible fibers could use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease.

October 17, 2016

MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease

One Brave Idea Research Award will support the search for new biomarkers and treatments.

October 5, 2016

Accelerometers around patients' necks capture data about the motions of their vocal folds to determine if their vocal behavior was normal or abnormal.

How machine learning can help with voice disorders

By detecting signs of vocal misuse, system from CSAIL and Mass General could eventually be used to help diagnose voice disorders.

August 29, 2016

In this series, a 3-D printed multimaterial shape-memory minigripper, consisting of shape-memory hinges and adaptive touching tips, grasps a cap screw.

3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes

Heat-responsive materials may aid in controlled drug delivery and solar panel tracking.

August 26, 2016

SolidEnergy Systems' battery (far right) is twice as energy-dense, yet just as safe and long-lasting as the lithium ion batteries used in consumer electronics. The battery uses a lithium metal foil for an anode, which can hold more ions and is several times thinner and lighter than traditional lithium metal, graphite, carbon, or silicon anodes. A novel electrolyte also keeps the battery from heati...

Doubling battery power of consumer electronics

New lithium metal batteries could make smartphones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long.

August 16, 2016

The Jolt Sensor, a wearable sensor for athletes, detects and gathers data on head impacts in real time.

When to get your head out of the game

Wearable sensor for athletes detects potential head injuries, gathers data on hard hits.

August 11, 2016

Pison Technology team members (left to right) Bobby Forster, Dexter Ang, David Cipoletta, and Wenxin Feng are developing assistive technology for people with ALS.

Fighting ALS with mind, hand, and heart

With support from the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, an MIT spinoff is creating assistive technology for people with ALS.

July 29, 2016

Researchers are developing a new boot with built-in sensors and tiny “haptic” motors, whose vibrations can guide the wearer around or over obstacles. Vibrations will jump from low to high intensity when the wearer is at risk of colliding with an obstacle.

Avoiding stumbles, from spacewalks to sidewalks

Vibrating footwear could help astronauts and visually impaired earthlings skirt obstacles.

July 22, 2016

MIT researchers have developed low-cost chemical sensors, made from chemically altered carbon nanotubes, that enable a smartphone or other wireless devices to detect trace amounts of toxic gases.

Wireless, wearable toxic-gas detector

Inexpensive sensors could be worn by soldiers to detect hazardous chemical agents.

June 30, 2016

Engineers at MIT have devised a method to bind two stretchy materials: gelatin-like polymer materials called hydrogels, and elastomers, which are impervious to water and can thus seal in the hydrogel’s water.

Tough new hydrogel hybrid doesn’t dry out

Water-based material could be used to make artificial skin, longer-lasting contact lenses.

June 27, 2016

Launched in January, about 300 MIT students have thus far engaged in the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program. Many will use the summer months to validate their technologies, talk with prospective customers, build prototypes, and carry out key market research.

Helping innovators to "keep going"

How does the Sandbox Funding Board define success? Everyone learning.

June 8, 2016

Left to right: Sabrina Drammis, Margaret Guo, and Nicole Zeinstra

Three student-athletes receive NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

Drammis, Guo, and Zeinstra among 29 students across all NCAA divisions honored for excellence in academics and winter-season athletics.

May 17, 2016

MIT Professional Education announces new online course on the Internet of Things

April 8, 2016

Professor Yoel Fink, director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics

New institute will accelerate innovations in fibers and fabrics

National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies.

April 1, 2016

Thomas Heldt (left) with Massachusetts General Hospital collaborator Michael Filbin.

Big, intensive data

Assistant Professor Thomas Heldt mines critical care data to support real-time clinical decision making and improve patient care.

March 31, 2016

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