Empowerment through mobile technology and co-design
MIT students improve the quality of life, safety, and independence of The Boston Home residents with InstaAid mobile application.
Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and development
Joint MIT-RISD course yields concepts from iPad-friendly backpacks to waste-free sugar.
Constant connection
MIT researchers show how to use portable devices’ built-in motion sensors to improve data rates on wireless networks.
Smart starts with you! Adopt these smart phone security recommendations from IS&T
Setting a device PIN or password on your smart phone can greatly decrease the chance of someone getting access to your personal information if your device is lost or stolen.
MIT Press launches its first iPad app
App brings to life the images in NONOBJECT, a design book by Branko Lukić and Barry Katz.
3 Questions: Mitchel Resnick
Creator of the popular Scratch programming language discusses Apple’s decision to disallow Scratch viewer for iPhones and iPads.
Microsensors without microfabrication
By building a six-dimensional motion sensor from a tiny metal bead in a tiny hole, MIT researchers introduce a new class of microdevice.
Sketch-interpreting software
A new system that lets people enter data into a tablet computer simply by drawing diagrams on the screen could lead to interactive whiteboards.