Apps

MIT $100K grand-prize-winning team Astraeus Technologies (left to right): Graham Lieberman, Jay Kumar, Alexander Blair, and Joseph Azzarelli.

Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

Team’s smartphone-connected device can detect lung cancer early from a single breath.

May 12, 2016

QualiT, an app launched as part of a collaboration between MIT and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), allows riders of the Silver Line to rate their bus trips.

Crowdsourcing the Silver Line commute

New app from MIT researchers gathers rider feedback to improve Boston bus service.

May 3, 2016

A prototype of a new speech-controlled nutrition-logging system allows users to verbally describe the contents of a meal. The system then parses the description and automatically retrieves the pertinent nutritional data.

Voice-controlled calorie counter

Spoken-language app makes meal logging easier, could aid weight loss.

March 24, 2016

“This is a rethinking of the Web infrastructure,” Frank Wang says. “Maybe it’s better that one person manages all their data. There’s one type of security and not 10 types of security. We’re trying to present an alternative model that would be beneficial to both users and applications.”

Secure, user-controlled data

Cryptographic system would allow users to decide which applications access which aspects of their data.

March 18, 2016

(From left) Randall Briggs, Ike Feitler, Jonathan Hunt, Martin Culpepper, and Saana McDaniel, creators of the Mobius app that helps students get access to workshops on campus.

Mobius App released to empower MIT maker community

Novel app will remove barriers to student making at MIT, impact universities around the world.

March 18, 2016

Empatica's wristband, called Embrace (pictured here), is “a consumer-looking, but medical-quality device” for monitoring stress and seizures, Rosalind Picard says.

Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress

Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.

March 9, 2016

The Kaymbu app, developed by an MIT Sloan Fellow, records and securely shares video and images of a young child’s classroom experiences with parents.

Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide

Teachers can record a child’s learning experiences and securely share them with parents.

February 24, 2016

The DriveWell app runs in the background of a smartphone, collecting data on driving behavior. Drivers receive a score on a scale from 1 to 100, a route map, and tips for improvement. Scores can also be used for insurance discounts, or to compete with friends and other drivers worldwide.

Smarter driving, using your phone

App that rates drivers’ behavior yields promising safety results on the road.

January 5, 2016

New PBS KIDS ScratchJr app launches

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University, the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app helps children ages 5-8 learn coding concepts.

December 3, 2015

MIT researchers have shown that some phone apps engage in “covert communication.” “There might be a very good reason for this covert communication. We are not trying to say that it has to be eliminated. We’re just saying the user needs to be informed,” says Julia Rubin, a postdoc in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

What are your apps hiding?

Half of the communication connections established by the top 500 Android apps have no effect on user experience.

November 19, 2015

An app for safer roads

Censio’s data analytics on driving behavior helps users improve safety and lower insurance rates.

November 2, 2015

4Axis Solutions co-founders Minsara Madhawa, Dumindu Kanankage, Kapilan Karunananthan and Anuruddha Alwis

Empowering students in Sri Lanka to form mobile-app startups

MIT Global Startup Labs program leads to student-founded startups 4Axis Solutions and PayMedia.

October 30, 2015

Finding 911 callers instantly

Mobile app automatically sends a caller’s location and medical data to dispatch centers.

September 18, 2015

Alumnus’s throwable tactical camera gets commercial release

Softball-sized camera can be tossed into unseen areas, sends panoramic images back to a smartphone.

June 26, 2015

D-Lab and Tata Center team wins $100K Vodafone award for mobile stethoscope

Rich Fletcher and Daniel Chamberlain will use their winnings to field-test a low-cost mobile device to diagnose pulmonary disease in rural India.

June 24, 2015

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