LabCAST

#61 ZeroN

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:40:17 +0000

What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation.

#60 CORNAR

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:17:27 +0000

Out of (Line of) Sight, But Not Out of View. The Camera Culture group at the Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femtophotography. With CORNAR, femtosecond imaging technology provides a way to see things beyond the line of sight–allowing us to see what’s around the corner.

#59 NewsFlash

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:48:25 +0000

NewsFlash uses a unique screen-to-phone data exchange to provide an interactive way to experience current events through dynamic interaction with the front pages of a variety of newspapers. The interaction is local to the phone, supporting many simultaneous users and creating a hub for discussion of global events.

#58 Mediated Matter

MIT Media Lab — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:49:10 +0000

Mediated Matter research integrates computational form-finding strategies with biologically inspired fabrication in order to enhance the relation between natural and man-made environments. The group seeks to establish new forms of design, and novel processes of material practice at the intersection of computer science, material engineering, design and ecology.

#57 Boxie

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:17:28 +0000

Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within it.

#56 LightBridge

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:36:23 +0000

LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary. Sensors in the display respond to the movement of pedestrians on the bridge and ambient data such as the weather, blurring the boundaries between traditional city lighting and the responsive infrastructures of tomorrow.

#55 CATRA

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:38:27 +0000

Part of a suite of portable projects for eyecare, CATRA is a new way to detect and quantify cataracts. CATRA is a compact eyepiece attached to a cell phone; it has no moving parts and is built from off-the-shelf components, making it well suited for the developing world.

#54 FAST

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:27:02 +0000

A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity at MIT, featuring many demos and projects from the Media Lab. More information about FAST is available.

#53 Qooqle

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:06:37 +0000

Qooqle is a mobile system that frees us from the confines of search boxes by integrating digital information directly into our everyday activities.

#52 Junkyard Jumbotron

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:17:25 +0000

The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random laptops, cellphones and tablets and stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them.

#51 Why apply?

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:26:33 +0000

There’s no such thing as a “typical” Media Lab student. Current Media Arts and Sciences graduate students discuss their research, what it’s like to work at the Media Lab, and why you should apply.

#50 Death and the Powers Premiere

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:05:09 +0000

Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.

#49 Death and the Powers

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:46:33 +0000

Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tour internationally.

#48 NETRA

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:59:57 +0000

MIT Media Lab researchers have created a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to use mobile phones to measure refractive errors of the eye, including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and age-related vision loss. Until now, these measurements have only been possible using specialized equipment operated by a trained professional.

#47 LuminAR

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:32:59 +0000

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devices.

#46 iCalm

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:21:52 +0000

iCalm is a small, wearable, wireless sensor platform for long-term sensing of physiological information along with low-cost connectivity to consumer devices. It has many possible applications, including customer-experience data gathering, health monitoring, and education for those seeking to learn about their own internal physiological changes during daily life.

#45 FaceSense

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:40:24 +0000

People express and communicate their mental states—such as emotions, thoughts, and desires—through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestures, and other non-verbal channels. FaceSense is a tool for analyzing, tagging, and making inferences about cognitive-affective mental states from facial video.

#44 Comm.unity

MIT Media Lab — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:21:24 +0000

The Comm.unity platform enables mobile devices to discover and communicate with each other in close proximity. It also transforms these devices into social sensors, and allows programmers to rapidly develop locally and socially aware applications. Several use cases demonstrate key concepts of Comm.unity.

#43 New Media Medicine

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:04:44 +0000

The New Media Medicine research group believes that it’s time for a power shift in health care. As a society, we have dramatically underestimated the power of ordinary people to transform the system, to take care of their own health, to help develop therapies, and to help solve massive public health problems. We are working on technologies that will enable radical new collaborations between doctors, patients and communities.

#42 Chameleon Guitar

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:00:02 +0000

The Chameleon Guitar, developed at the MIT Media Lab, embodies a unique combination of traditional acoustic values and digital capabilities.

#41 Catalytic Cracking

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:20:39 +0000

Associate Media Lab Director Andy Lippman challenges us to recognize common flaws plaguing all our institutions as a first step toward meaningful redesign.

#40 Future of News

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:49:07 +0000

In June of 2009, the Center for Future Civic Media’s “Future of News and Civic Media” conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and information needed to manage their communities effectively.

#39 Bokode

MIT Media Lab — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:54:39 +0000

The Camera Culture group presents Bokodes, tiny imperceptible barcodes that can be read by a standard camera positioned up to four meters away to decode identity, and six-degree-of-freedom pose (angle and distance).

#38 Robots to the Rescue

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:53:36 +0000

The Personal Robots group presents a scenario demonstrating mixed-initiative human-robot teaming for disaster response.

#37 Roadie

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:25:46 +0000

Consumer electronics are becoming more complicated and intimidating. Roadie is a system that uses common-sense reasoning to discern the users’ intentions, and uses this knowledge to help users reach their goals.

#36 extrACT

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:43:53 +0000

extrACT is a group of software tools being developed for use by communities affected by extractive industries.

#35 Graspables

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:55:40 +0000

The graspables system is a prototype handheld device that recognizes how it is being held and adjusts its functionality accordingly.

#34 Synthetic Neurobiology

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:08:31 +0000

Professor Ed Boyden introduces the Media Lab’s Synthetic Neurobiology group, which is inventing and applying tools for the analysis and engineering of brain circuits.

#33 Scratch@MIT

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:38:45 +0000

The first conference focused on the ideas, applications, and joys of Scratch.

#32 Selectricity

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:34 +0000

Selectricity is voting machinery for the masses. See how electronic voting technology can help groups make better decisions, more easily.

#31 The Psychology of the Guitar

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:31:02 +0000

What do you get when you cross a guitar and a Wii controller? A way to extend the guitar intuitively by mapping audio effects onto gestures.

#30 Urban Pixels

MIT Media Lab — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:30:43 +0000

Setting pixels free, and blurring the boundary between street lighting and digital displays.

#29 UROP@ML

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:10:39 +0000

Robotics, documentary film, algorithms, and circuit boards: just a few of the many projects with undergraduate researchers at the Media Lab.

#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.

#8 City Car

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:49:56 +0000

The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban areas. Vehicle Stacks will be placed throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage of existing infrastructure such as subway and bus lines.

#7 John Maeda h2.0 Drawings

MIT Media Lab — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:44:44 +0000

A short video composed of drawings by John Maeda for the opening of the h20 event.

#6 Scratch

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:44:29 +0000

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art—and share your creations on the web.

#5 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 4

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:44:12 +0000

John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade.

#4 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 3

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:16:01 +0000

John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade.

#3 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 2

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:14:37 +0000

John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade.

#2 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 1

MIT Media Lab — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:13:00 +0000

John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade.

#1 Welcome to LabCAST

MIT Media Lab — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:12:00 +0000

Welcome to the Media Lab podcast with journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry.