Our connection to content
Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media.
Media Lab
Vision-correcting displays
Technology could lead to e-readers, smartphones, and displays that let users dispense with glasses.
A market for emotions
With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet.
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten
With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games.
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile
Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic.
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Why networking doesn't work
New study reveals the strength of the strongest ties in collaborative problem solving.
Media Lab to bring more digital tools into newsrooms with $1.2 million Knight Foundation grant
The Future of News initiative aims to bridge the gap between journalism, technology, and civic engagement.
'This is not a ball' spotlights MIT collaboration
New documentary by visiting artist Vik Muniz features MIT alumni and researchers.
MIT’s Mobile Fab Lab participates in White House Maker Faire
Obama tours MIT-developed trailer containing digital fabrication, design, and manufacturing tools.
Affordable precision printing for pros
MIT spinout Formlabs brings high-resolution, low-cost 3-D printing to makers, engineers and designers.
President of Turkey visits MIT
Abdullah Gul views research projects, meets with faculty, students, and administration
Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.