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MIT Students Turn Building 54 Into A Giant Tetris Board
Over the course of the years, the ninety-five foot tall Building 54 has been the center of plenty of hacker attempts on visual displays, thanks to its grid-like windows to the front. The new hack...
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ZeroN System Creates Anti-Gravity Zone Right Before Your Eyes
We live in a time where new technologies are constantly being discovered and manipulated to do things that were previously relegated completely to the world of science fiction. The age we are in is a...
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MIT Students Create Minority Report-Style System Uses iPad
It seems like every time we turn around we have another technology pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible. We’ve all seen the glove-controlled PCs in Minority Report, right? That’s...
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Smart Pebble Robots Can Mimic Objects Quickly
Can you imagine a world where tiny little cube robots can bind together to form replicas of existing shapes and items just by sensing their presence? No, I’m not talking about some crazy CGI enhanced...
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MIT Carbon Nanotube Solar Cell Captures Near Infrared Light
Regular photovoltaic cells can only capture a certain spectrum of light, but a new type of solar cell developed by MIT researchers can now capture energy from the near-infrared region of the light...
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MIT Students Create 3D Printer that fits in a Suitcase
The era of 3D printing has firmly launched, but there are still some setbacks to using 3D printer technology, namely they aren’t exactly portable. While most 3D printers must be disassembled in order...
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Video: Researchers Develop Soft Meshworm Robot with Earthworm-Like Movement
Science has always looked to nature for inspiration. We’ve already seen synthetic photosynthesis and humanoid robots that approximate the movement of people. For scientists at MIT, Harvard University...
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Video: Revolutionary SpaceTop 3D Computer Interface
We’ve seen 3D televisions and 3D monitors, but the way that we interact with them is still on a two-dimensional basis. That could be changing with SpaceTop 3D, a three-dimensional computer interface...
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Perpetual Motion a Reality?
Time crystals, seems like something out of a sci-fi movie or even the “Final Fantasy” game series. A perpetual motion machine, an item that can oscillate for eternity without any energy application....
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Future Smartphones Could Eventually Use Micro Vacuum Technology
Many of today’s smartphones are coming with high end specs including fast processors. But a CPU of course can’t be too fast because of heating issues, unless there is a better cooling system...
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Cheap 3D Color Holograms Enabled By MIT Technology
“Help us, Obi-wan Kenobi. You’re our only hope.” For many of us, our first experience with a holographic image was through that iconic quote in the Star Wars movie. It seemed like such fantastical...
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Matter Which Behaves Like A Lightsaber
We have seen many things from science fiction movies becoming a reality after technological advancements, and light sabers could soon be added to that list. If you are a Star Wars fan, you should be...
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Video: MIT inFORM Dynamic Shape Display with Kinect Motion Capture
As a kid, I remember going to novelty stores like San Francisco and later Spencer Gifts, seeing a myriad of useless toys and gadgets. One of these was always the metal pinboard where you could smush...
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Arduino Co-Creator Releases Plans for $200 DIY Mobile Phone
Growing up, I played a lot with LEGO. I was never fortunate enough to really indulge in those pre-made kits, so I would bumble my way through my bucket of assorted bricks to see what my imagination...
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Solar-Powered Smart Benches
It’s all smart things no matter where we look. There’s the smartphone in your pocket, the smart TV in your living room, the smartwatch on your wrist, then you probably have a smart refrigerator and...
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This Cheetah Robot Is Silent And Eco-Friendly (Video)
We have seen Cheetah robots before. While those robots were designed to freak everyone out, a new one designed by the engineers at MIT seems to be a lot less creepy. The new robot is really fast and it...
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For scientists at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University, they got their inspiration from the lowly earthworm when it came to their latest creation: the Meshworm robot. The post Video:...
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We've seen 3D televisions and 3D monitors, but the way that we interact with them is still on a two-dimensional basis. That could be changing with SpaceTop 3D, a three-dimensional computer interface...
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Perpetual motion and the idea of "time crystals" sound like a theme for a game or movie, right? One Nobel prize winning Physicist has a different idea. The post Perpetual Motion a Reality? appeared...
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Micro vacuum pumps developed as part of DARPA’s Chip-Scale Vacuum Micro Pumps (CSVMP) program could pave the way for faster processors in smartphones. The post Future Smartphones Could Eventually Use...
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