What are your apps hiding?
Half of the communication connections established by the top 500 Android apps have no effect on user experience.
Streamlining mobile image processing
Technique for mobile image processing in the cloud cuts bandwidth use by more than 98 percent.
Taking stress to a new level
MIT spinout Neumitra brings an innovative approach to quantifying, understanding, and managing stress.
Smarter lenses
Newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.
Can phone data detect real-time unemployment?
Study: Usage patterns vary when people are not working.
Connecting the masses
Startup’s advertising platform provides free mobile data to prepaid cellphone users in developing countries.
Freshman "chemistry clicker" champions named
Interactive clicker competitions pit student recitation teams against one another, turning learning into a semester-long game.
Tackling the “Achilles’ heel” of OLED displays
Inkjet-printing system could enable mass-production of large-screen and flexible OLED displays.
Beating battery drain
Startup’s power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers.
Creating user-friendlier environments
Federico Casalegno designs technology environments that keep human experience at the center of user experience.
Turning the tables on wireless interference
Cognitive coexistence radio and other technologies will help alleviate spectrum congestion for wireless devices.
App Inventor launches second iteration
Since its 2009 creation, more than a million people have registered to use App Inventor, which is now based out of the MIT Media Lab.
Tips for traveling with your mobile phone
Before you depart, think how you’ll want to use your phone and how best to protect it.
Wireless researchers host ‘Game-Jam’
Event will bring together game developers, graphic designers and audio professionals to design mobile games that will help wireless researchers gather information on network data.
Multiple choices: How do you handle eWaste?
MIT is committed to responsibly recycling its eWaste. Find out what you or your DLC can do to help.