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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 respond accordingly to the one next to it. In its current form it's just a neat toy that doesn't really do much, but if you can adapt this to say, cellphones or MP3 players—stuff people actually carry around with them every day—it might make for some neat interactivity when you and your friends meet up and make your iPhones kiss. [MIT via OhGizmo]

8:30 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Jason Chen
2,266 views, 15 comments

Latest by iSee: Now that's what I call a revolutionary new interface that changes the way we interact with our computing systems, granted more »

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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. After you are done drooling over their hot camera/display, watch as they place 3D objects into the image and pan around the room. We can't wait until the technology serves its ultimate purpose and Madden places a leaner version of himself on the football field to show "what he would have done" during that last play. [MIT]

8:18 PM on Sun Jan 27 2008
By Mark Wilson
10,045 views, 25 comments

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Bar Of Soap Is Multi-Talented Gadget That Susses Out What It Is Just By the Way You Hold It

Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have come up with the Bar of Soap, a gadget that works out exactly what it is depending on how it is held. So, hold it like a camera, and you can take pics, hold it like a cellphone, and it makes calls. Basically developed as a prototype to test the grasp classification concept, the technology behind the Bar of Soap is expected to trickle down into future gizmos. More »

8:20 AM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By AddyDugdale
2,113 views, 10 comments

Latest by N/A: @deusdiabolus: It turns into a suppository! more »

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$130 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) GUI

Here's a sneak peak at the MIT $100 $130 OLPC project PC's graphical user interface (GUI). More »

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$100 PC Now Costs $130, Due in April, 2007

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab showed off the latest version of his $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), the Linux-based laptop that will begin shipping to developing countries starting in April, 2007. The 2-pound laptop won't cost $100, though. Its price will actually be between $130 and $140 not including shipping, but Negroponte expects that $100 price point to be reached by the end of 2008 when manufacturing has scaled up to 5 to 6 million units. More »

9:31 AM on Fri Jun 2 2006
By Charlie White
883 views, 11 comments

Latest by JTI2K2: With sempron-based laptops going for $400 or less, these $140 laptops seem kinda pricey if you ask me. more »

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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 only if 100,000 others will, too. This way, generous donors can keep one of the laptops for themselves and send two to those who are much less fortunate, presumably children in the developing world. More »

8:41 AM on Thu May 25 2006
By Charlie White
4,232 views, 10 comments

Latest by jrghoull: i am getting fed up with all you schmucks out there that think this is a bad idea. this is more »

gadgets

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". More »

4:08 PM on Thu Mar 9 2006
By gizmodo.com
515 views, 5 comments

Latest by Monty: That is so gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that. more »

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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 innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. Pictured here are a few highlights. Here s Heartbeat Hoodie, which probably doesn t look as good on a woman without particularly large breasts, but it takes pictures as its wearer s heart rate increases, in what s called a form of involuntary blogging. More »

2:00 PM on Sun Feb 5 2006
By Charlie White
659 views, Comment