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MIT scientists solve the Ketchup Bottle Dilemma

Posted May 24, 2012 - 10:43 am

The fine folks at MIT have solved the problem of never being able to get all the ketchup out of the bottle.
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MIT business school grapples with virtualization

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:36 pm

MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge.
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MIT's glare-free glass doesn't fog up, cleans itself

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:30 am

MIT scientists have found a new way of surfacing glass in such a way that it virtually eliminates its reflective properties--and that could mean glare-free screens!
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Robotic spider weaves web at MIT Media Lab

Posted April 25, 2012 - 3:56 pm

An MIT Media Lab robot mimicked silk worms and spiders and wove a cocoon-like structure with a little programming help from humans.
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MIT takes aim at secure, self-healing cloud

Posted February 28, 2012 - 8:06 am

What if a cloud computing infrastructure could recognize a cyberattack, eliminate it and never stop working while all that is being done? That's what researchers at MIT, with help from the federal government, are investigating the feasibility of.
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MIT researchers build wireless 'pharmacy on a chip'

Posted February 19, 2012 - 8:04 am

Researchers at MIT have developed what they're hoping will be something of a pharmacy on a chip.
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MIT camera captures light at a trillion frames per second

Posted December 20, 2011 - 2:42 pm

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab can photograph the fastest thing in the universe, light.
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MIT camera captures video at 1 trillion frames/second

Posted December 13, 2011 - 12:14 pm

MIT Media Lab researchers have uploaded a video showing off their new imaging system that "can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second," which is fast enough to produce wicked-slow slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
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MIT touts optical computing breakthrough

Posted December 3, 2011 - 9:43 am

MIT researchers have published research regarding a breakthrough that could speed the way to zippy new computers that rely on photonic chips that use light beams rather than electrons to work.
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More proof they're building Terminators

Posted November 7, 2011 - 12:21 pm

Sometimes I feel like Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 (no, get your mind out of the gutter). I mean, she keeps warning people about the Terminators that are coming from the future, yet most of humanity just looks at her like she's weird, or they lock her up in an asylum.
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MIT Media Lab tracks researchers, visitors

Posted October 25, 2011 - 1:41 pm

New tracking technology inside the MIT Media Lab monitors everything from office thermostats, to social media buzz to the location of workers.
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Graphene could change how we harvest solar energy

Posted October 15, 2011 - 8:25 am

Sparked by their recent findings, some MIT researchers have realized that shining some light on Graphene, a carbon sheet a single atom thick, can get those electrical juices flowing. Previously only possible “under very special circumstances,” the new current generating effect could pave the way for better photodetectors, night vision systems, generating electricity from sunlight, and flux capacitors*.
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MIT researchers aim to improve aircraft carrier effciency [video]

Posted August 17, 2011 - 10:29 am

The DCAP system helps humans and computers work together to improve military operations.
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MIT develops electronic glasses that can read emotions

Posted July 9, 2011 - 8:05 am

Mind-reading still might be a ways off, but the MIT Media Lab has come up with spectacles that can read a person's emotions. These social X-ray specs have a built-in camera linked to software that analyzes facial expressions.
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MIT robots take stage in new opera [video]

Posted March 21, 2011 - 5:03 pm

In Death and the Powers, a new opera by MIT Media Lab professor Tod Machover, the main character wishes to leave the physical world, but remain there digitally. He downloads himself into The System and continues to interact with the audience and other characters through robots and a technique called disembodied performance.
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Holographic Kinect hack from a galaxy far, far away [video]

Posted January 25, 2011 - 2:31 pm

MIT Media Lab researchers used a Kinect to capture holographic video, which they then were able to stream over the Internet.
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MIT: High-tech cars can mellow you out

Posted November 5, 2010 - 12:01 pm

Letting the sort of automatic parking systems now available from Ford and Toyota take over doesn't just ensure a better parking job; according to a study from MIT, they can actually reduce stress. Of course, it's still undetermined if that stress is a good thing (because it keeps you more alert) or if the stress drop-off will still happen when such systems are standard equipment on all cars.
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MIT system helps companies recover from network intrusion

Posted September 30, 2010 - 11:37 am

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers will next week detail a system they say will make it easier for companies to recover from security intrusions.
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Wireless networks, apps gaining ground in unlikely places

Posted September 22, 2010 - 1:50 pm

Mobile and wireless applications are already profoundly affecting underdeveloped areas of the world, according to a "Future of Mobile" panel at the EmTech@MIT 2010 conference today..
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MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

Posted August 26, 2010 - 9:16 pm

MIT researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a robot that can autonomously navigate across the surface of the ocean to clean up an oil spill.
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MIT researchers boost efficiency of wireless power

Posted April 16, 2010 - 3:22 pm

MIT researchers working on wireless power have discovered a way to make it more efficient: Charge up lots of electronic gear at the same time.
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MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses

Posted February 22, 2010 - 2:52 pm

Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Former Seagate engineer says company destroyed evidence

Posted January 3, 2010 - 9:46 pm

A former Seagate engineer says the company destroyed evidence pertinent to a nine-year-old patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by a small engineering company and MIT.
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MIT geeks seek "ugliest man on campus"

Posted November 25, 2009 - 9:37 am

Warning: Research not conducted with expected amount of intellectual rigor.
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MIT researchers developing robotic driving companion

Posted November 10, 2009 - 11:11 pm

Need help staying awake or finding the cheapest gas? In-car robot is designed to help
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