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  MIT team developing gesture recognition for unmanned aircraft

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 15, 2012 10:33 am + 5 comments

  MIT scientists are developing a camera system to enable an unmanned aircraft to respond to gestures Continue reading…

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  MIT App Inventor service now open to all Android developers

  By Sam Byford on March 5, 2012 03:56 am + 8 comments

  Continuing its revival of Google's App Inventor tool, MIT has placed the software into public beta. Continue reading…

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  Guiding Light brings video game-style navigation to the real world

  By Andrew Webster on February 27, 2012 09:12 pm + 9 comments

  In Dead Space players used futuristic augmented reality technology to navigate a derelict space Continue reading…

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  Joe Paradiso's modular synth finds a new home at the MIT Museum

  By Jamie Keene on February 21, 2012 11:20 am

  Having exhibited his enormous analog modular synthesiser around the world, MIT Media laboratory Continue reading…

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  First wireless drug-dispensing chip tested in humans

  By Adi Robertson on February 18, 2012 09:04 am + 7 comments

  After years of research, a wirelessly-controlled "pharmacy in a chip" has had its first clinical Continue reading…

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  MITx offers first free and interactive online class

  By Adi Robertson on February 14, 2012 09:43 am + 6 comments

  For ten years, MIT's OpenCourseWare has offered thousands of MIT course notes and lectures for free Continue reading…

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  Photosynthesis molecules from yard waste can provide the basis of low-cost solar power

  By Nathan Ingraham on February 7, 2012 08:31 am + 3 comments

  Scientists are increasingly focused on finding renewable sources of power, and a researcher at MIT Continue reading…

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  MIT's high-temperature photonic crystals could power gadgets of the future

  By Chris Welch on February 3, 2012 02:23 pm + 13 comments

  The devices we carry around tend to evolve much quicker than energy sources inside them. If you need Continue reading…

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  Passwords don't work, and they never really have

  By David Pierce on January 28, 2012 04:43 pm + 44 comments

  Passwords clearly don't work all that well — everywhere we turn we hear stories from Sony, Zappos, Continue reading…

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  Hiriko electric car folds up to take one-third of a parking spot, pilot program to begin next year

  By Dante D'Orazio on January 25, 2012 08:39 pm + 22 comments

  We've seen urban cars with a single, windshield-mounted door and we've seen a baby stroller that can Continue reading…