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more about #mit SkippyTheMarine: "...M.I.T. has succeeded in reinventing the wheel." You couldn't resist it, could you? Reinventing the wheel? C'mon, Kyle, you're better than that. more » IN THE FACE!: I thought that sounded familiar... [jalopnik.com] more » ShantiTrophonius: Given that the most effective braking on a bike is done by the front wheel (hence it is much more heavily used than the rear), I suspect this setup wo... more » nutbastard: i almost wonder if regenerative braking might be done better on a bicycle with a purely mechanical, er, mechanism. even if it could only hold a 3 or 4... more » Wibble: They just called it KERS to make it sound like had something to do with F1. All very nice, but how much does said wheel weigh? more » Mr.V.: Why the fuck does anyone want their bike to have Bluetooth? Seriously. What would you possibly do with that? more » RicketyCricket: This guy's gonna be pissed. more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Too bad bikes don't emit carbon in the first place. more » bleek: Hang on guys, I'm kickin this bike into nitro. more » subsider34: That's a TIE Bomber not a TIE Fighter. more » Jeb_Hoge: So if I flip off my computer, will it reboot? more » OCEntertainment: Don't have audio while I'm at work, but I can only assume this video is being played to a trippy techno soundtrack, right? I mean, if it's not being p... more » not_a_virus.exe.vbs: Thats badass. I can see surgeons using this to manipulate 3D models of body parts on screen in the operating room for invasive surgeries. more » Ruh Roh!: Can anybody even defend the Turing test as the true measure of intelligence, 60 years after its formulation? If it is, then job's done because the AI... more » Killjoy: The assumption hidden in the proposal "Let's make robots that act like us" is that our OS is worth porting to other hardware. more » Kirkaiya: Not disagreeing with deep.thought's comments below about where things are actually going, but I think a lot of the desire for a human-like AI is to ha... more » shpe: think outside the box! insted of making a machine human, why not try to make the human a machine... let's say a lobotomized brain witch have no lobo... more » deep.thought: As an (aspiring) AI/ML researcher, I think this is a bunch of rubbish. They make it sound as if the entire goal of software intelligence is to have it... more » blash: So in other words, what they're trying to do is approach AI from the perspective of parallel machines rather than parallel processes. Not a bad idea b... more » rentahero1: 9 and... 1 red balloons, floating in the summer sky. Panic bells, it's red alert, there's something here from somewhere else... more » -
#bicycles
M.I.T. Ushers in Biking 2.0 With Copenhagen Wheel
Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy from braking for a later burst of speed. More » -
#gesturalcomputing
MIT's Bidirectional Display Lets You Control Objects With a Wave of Your Hand
Forget multitouch; it's for grandmas and Luddites. The MIT Media Lab's new bi-directional (BIDI) display that reads your gestures with embedded optical sensors? That's how we roll now. More » -
#artificialintelligence
MIT Plans to Rebuild Artificial Intelligence from the Ground Up
After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. More » -
#darpa
DARPA's Balloon Challenge Over After Nine Hours
Someone at DARPA's crying over the brilliant "Find these ten red weather balloons and we'll give you 40K" challenge he concocted ending mere nine hours in. It's what happens when you forget about MIT geeks and their little bribes, too. More » -
#savingenergy
Thermally-Activated Roof Tiles Change Color to Conserve Energy
Since black roof tiles absorb heat and white ones reflect it, we should all just plain re-do our roofs biannually to save energy as the seasons change. Or maybe just get roof tiles that change color on their own. More » -
#designers
This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe
Every single day we oooh and aahhh over the latest design concepts, but right now, let's focus on one of the minds behind such designs and smile in awe of her motivations and inspirations. Meet MIT designer, Neri Oxman. More » -
#fashion
MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads and More
Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway's premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT's Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out below. More » -
#robots
MIT's AIDA Robot Is Going To Be The Ultimate Backseat Driver
Actually, the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) won't be riding in the backseat, it's mounted right on the dashboard—but it will make comments on how you drive. It also reacts to your emotional state and helps you navigate. More » -
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#education
100 Open Technology Courses That Would Have Saved You a Lot of Money On Tuition
When I think about all of the money I spent on college tuition only to find that the internet is riddled with free technology courses from prestigious schools like MIT. More » -
#cpus
100-Core Tilera TILE-Gx Processors Planned For 2011
While Intel and AMD look to make a complete jump to 8-cores, Tilera (an MIT start-up) says its upcoming 100-core chip has "at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power." More » -
#teapots
Teapots Have a Dribbling Problem—Who Knew?
Just like grandpa, teapots have long suffered from a dribbling problem. No longer. More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Apple Second Only To Google In Social-Network Buzz...70mph Robot Runs Like Cheetah—on Paper...Drunk on Ego, NPR Brands Its Own Internet Radio...San Diego Finally Puts All That Sunshine to Good Use More » -
#mit
MIT Is About To Revolutionize The Pop-Up Book
In addition to curing blindness and developing solar cars, the minds at MIT have found time to revolutionize the world of pop-up books by integrating electronics for more "dynamic interactivity." More » -
#robots
MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?
The latest Micro Air Vehicle from MIT does an incredible job of balancing itself in-air. Not to mention that the helicopter models its surroundings so well it could probably fly over to the fridge and make you a sandwich. More » -
#science
MIT's Eyeball Chip Could Make the Blind See
MIT researchers are developing a microchip that adheres to an eye to revive sight, and it could begin human trials within three years. More » -
#photography
MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
On September 2, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh successfully took these images of Earth's curvature and the blackness of space using only a weather balloon and off-the-shelf components—without complicated hacks. Total cost: $148. Here's how they did it. More » -
#robots
Robot Fish: Because Android Children Deserve Unsatisfying Pets Too
So it's not expressly intended to provide baby Asimos with unfulfilling relationships, but that would be adorable, no? In reality, it fancies itself an industrial tool, for monitoring "pipelines, sunken ships, and pollution." Where's your whimsy, robofish? More » -
#uavs
Need To Fly A Military Drone? Yep, There's An iPhone App For That
MIT Professor Missy Cummings (a former F-18 Hornet Navy Pilot), and her team of 30 students and undergrads, have successfully demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV. More » -
#diy
MIT Students Build a Speedy Go-Kart Out of a Shopping Cart
When you were in college, you spent your free time drinking tallboys of Bud Ice and playing Mario Kart 64 until 5am. These MIT students, on the other hand, built a shopping cart go-kart cart and dubbed it the LOLriokart. More » -
#futuretech
Researchers Cram a Camera Into a Sheet of Fiber
Another day, another innovation from MIT researchers. This time, it's a camera built in the middle of a 25mm fiber sheet, which might be the coolest invention we will never use (save for an appearance in Splinter Cell 10). More »
