LabCAST

#28 Physical Heart, Virtual Body

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:37:56 +0000

Physical Heart, Virtual Body is a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual sound processing capabilities.

#27 Civic Media

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:24 +0000

The Center for Future Civic Media is a joint effort between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. It is working to create technical and social systems for sharing, prioritizing, organizing, and acting on information.

#26 Storied Navigation

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:50:57 +0000

Storied Navigation is a novel approach to constructing a story based on a collection of digital video and audio. Media sequences are tagged with free-text annotations and stored as a collection. The system can then suggest media based on the context of the story.

#25 RoboScooter

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:33:35 +0000

The RoboScooter is a lightweight, folding, electric motor scooter. It is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive mobility in urban areas.

#24 Design and the Elastic Mind

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:28:15 +0000

Design and the Elastic Mind was an exhibit at New York City’s MoMA with works by MIT Media Lab researchers. Thanks to the MoMA.

#23 Nexi MDS Robot

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:26:45 +0000

Nexi is an MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) Robot designed and built in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group, UMASS Amherst’s Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics.

#22 The Media Lab

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:01:18 +0000

Welcome to a place where the future is lived not imagined.

#21 Stiff People’s League

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:31 +0000

Stiff People’s League is a mixed-reality table soccer game in which teams of virtual and real players compete together. It debuted at Ars Electronica 2007.

#20 Siftables

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:28:27 +0000

Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media.

#19 The Online Magician

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:48:01 +0000

A new technological magic show by Media Lab Alum Seth Raphael.

#18 Software Agents

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:23:24 +0000

The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rather than simply as a tool.

#17 Death and the Powers

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:21:59 +0000

Death and the Powers will showcase groundbreaking advances in musical language and materials, scenographic technique, and performance technology

#16 Seamless

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:03:42 +0000

Seamless: Computational Couture 2008 is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. This year’s show was produced by Media Lab student Amanda Parkes, Media Lab alumna Christine Liu and the Museum of Science, Boston. Watch the entire show here.

#15 Student Life with Taemie Kim

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:16:03 +0000

Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses student life with student Taemie Kim.

#14 Student Life with David Merrill

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:15:34 +0000

Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses the resources available at the Lab with student David Merrill.

#13 Autom Sociable Robot

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:14:55 +0000

Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with fifteen of these robots in local homes so that we can gather information on how people use the system, what they think about their relationship with it, and how both of these evolve over time.

#12 Sponsor Week Fall 2007

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:14:11 +0000

Sponsor week is a major twice a year event where the Media Lab sponsors have the chance to visit the lab and learn about the latest research. Catch a glimpse of the Media Lab in action.

#11 AUR: a Robotic Desk Lamp

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:12:31 +0000

AUR is a robotic desk lamp, a collaborative lighting assistant. It serves as a non-anthropomorphic robotic platform as part of research on human-robot fluency, embodiment, and nonverbal behavior.

#10 Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:12:23 +0000

Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel prosthesis is capable of propelling the wearer forward and varying its stiffness over irregular terrain, successfully mimicking the action of a biological ankle, and, for the first time, providing amputees with a truly humanlike gait.

#9 h2.0 Highlights

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:39:04 +0000

On May 9, more than 900 attendees from throughout the world joined members of the Media Lab and special guests for h2.0, a symposium focused on ushering in a new era in human adaptability—an era where technology will merge with our bodies and our minds to forever change our concept of human capability.