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Merry Miser: The Antidote to Impulse Spending

I don’t get it. These clothes looked great in the store and I was so excited to buy them but now, they’re just… meh. Sorcerers and Their Apprentices discusses the impulse spending epidemic and how one app may hold the cure. If you spend a few hours chatting with Charlie DeTar, a doctoral student in…

Tech News Frank Moss Jun 23

MIT Media Lab Made Itself a Self-Generating, 40,000 Variant Logo

How do you design a logo with longevity? One that won’t seem stale and tired after a few years? Make it beautiful, of course, and then give it 40,000 possible appearances based on an algorithm—enough to last 25 years of use. MIT, you guys are are incredible. That being said, the concept does violate nearly…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 9

MIT Media Lab Extension: The New Home of Face-Melting Research

The renowned MIT Media Lab is a place where every project is an amazing, unbelievable glimpse into humanity’s technological future. Now, thanks to a massive $90 million extension, the architecture can match the wondrous excitement created within. In case you haven’t had the opportunity to swing by this particular block in Cambridge, Massachusetts, here’s what…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 9

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. A lot of this stuff is just playful, so some of the clothes don’t need to be too polished—but I…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Nov 7

MIT Media Lab’s Siftables Are Cool, But Ultimately Useless

These Siftables from MIT Media Labs are small Post It-sized displays with processing power built in, allowing it to communicate with other Siftables as well as detect motion and proximity. You’ll have to see what that means in the video, as they have different examples of shaking these Siftables, connecting them together, and having each…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 15

MIT’s 3D Installation Pwns Roger Rabbit

Given that we’ve covered the topic of real-time 3D animation in 2D video signals before, we must be fairly obsessed with the topic. But placing a 3D CG image into a video signal and manipulating said signal is still, in our book, pretty freakin’ cool. Here’s a tech demo of ‘Installation’ by MIT Media Labs.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 27

Buy One $100 Laptop, Give Two to Kids

PledgeBank, the site that allows its users to vow to do something and then encourages others to do the same, is where Mike Liveright set up his particular pledge: he will purchase three of the MIT Media Lab’s $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops at $300, giving two of them away. He’ll do this…

Tech News Charlie White May 25

Lover’s Cups

Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung of MIT Media Lab have a great project called Lover’s Cups, a wireless-enabled pair of drinking glasses. Each cup can tell when someone is drinking from the other; when both are being used they glow to “celebrate this virtual kiss”. Lover’s Cups, Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung [MIT Media Lab]…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 9

Fashion From Another Planet

Leave it to the brainiac graduate students at the MIT Media Lab to come up with fashions that blend techno-geekiness with other-planet surrealism. Putting together an event called Seamless: Computational Couture, the wigged-out designistas took the meaning of the term wtf to an entirely new level. The curators described the event as a showcase for…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 5

Merry Miser: The Antidote to Impulse Spending

MIT Media Lab Made Itself a Self-Generating, 40,000 Variant Logo

MIT Media Lab Extension: The New Home of Face-Melting Research

MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads and More

MIT Media Lab’s Siftables Are Cool, But Ultimately Useless

MIT’s 3D Installation Pwns Roger Rabbit

Buy One $100 Laptop, Give Two to Kids

Lover’s Cups

Fashion From Another Planet

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