Media Lab

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• Mobile visual search – GetFugu or get Google?

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  As mobile continues to develop, the world of search on mobiles is heating up. Recently, Google launched Google Goggles, an experiment from the search giant in visual search. The Lab reached out to their partner GetFugu to find out how Google’s release changes the landscape in respect to GetFugu’s visual and ...
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• Transitioning to a digital news world

  
  Socialmedia.biz — Authority: 577
  Transitioning from a print to a digital news world from JD Lasica on Vimeo . I f I were starting out in journalism today, I’d probably opt to work for a Web-based publication — or start my own — rather than learn the ropes at a newspaper. Because those ropes are becoming increasingly frayed. We’ve ...
  20 hours ago

• LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 16 (ANI): Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a novel LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures, without touching the screen.They insist viewers can control on-screen objects by waving their arms in the air without touching the screen, let alone a mouse or ...
  2 days ago

• Sixth Sense - Blending Digital + Real World Interactions

  
  Bruce MacVarish Notes — Authority: 99
  A t a Nov 2009 Ted presentation, Pranav Mistry of the MIT Media Lab provided an update on the status of his Sixth Sense Project and his vision for integrating our interactions between the digital and real world. As you watch this, consider the possibilities of an open platform that changes how we ...
  3 days ago

• Kids Have an Itch to Program? Scratch It!

  
  Mombian — Authority: 428
  Do your kids like to use computers? Do they linger in the computer areas of science museums, playing with the demos? Do they eye the Lego Mindstorms robot sets until you see the nearly $300 price tag and quickly usher them away? Here’s good news: Scratch , a programming language designed just for kids, is ...
  3 days ago

• OLPC one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007

  
  Free Laptop and Notebook Information — Authority: 148
  matthew hockenberry of creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the one laptop per child’s fourth production prototype of the ‘hundred-dollar laptop’ at siggraph 2007 – video by leonardo bonanni of hyperexperience.com FAQ -Yes, this is the hundred dollar laptop -No, you can’t buy one – they are only sold to ...
  4 days ago

• BIDI screen from MIT Media Lab

  
  Image-Acquire.com — Authority: 534
  Related Posts Nimzy Portable Personal Screen ElevenTen Color Debuts Wide-Format Inkjet Media Media Sciences Clearcase Color Toner Cartridges Sony Announces the LTO-4 Photo Contest Tags: 3d images , Bidi Screen , MIT Media Lab Related posts Hammacher Schlemmer Introduces The Only 3D Web ...
  6 days ago

• MIT Media Lab: Light Sensing Displays

  
  DisplayBlog — Authority: 490
  By using light sensing displays, MIT’s Media Lab was able to put together a display that responds to gestures by sensing the movement of your hands through light-sensing pixels and pin holes. Here’s how visiting researcher Douglas Lanman describes the technique: …instead of an LCD, an array of pinholes is ...
  6 days ago

• Behind MIT’s DARPA Weather Balloon challenge win

  
  Social Capital Blog — Authority: 114
  MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team As many of you know, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team (part of the MIT Media Lab) won the race to locate the DARPA Red Weather Balloon Challenge .    Their system was a reverse Ponzi scheme where those finding the balloon got $2000, and those progressively farther back the ...
  1 week ago

• MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat

  
  Engadget — Authority: 841
  Ah, the MIT Media Lab, home to Big Birds illegitimate progeny , augmented reality projects aplenty, and now three-dimensional gestural computing. The new bi-directional display being demoed by the Cambridge-based boffins performs both multitouch functions that were familiar with and hand movement recognition in the ...
  1 week ago

• SixthSense- a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media Lab)

  
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• How shoppers make choices

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  The laptops are arranged in neat rows, seemingly endless black rectangles each glowing with bright blue screens. I point out to my daughter what the numbers on the little signs next to computer mean. I show her how to evaluate the features – Longer battery life, more RAM, bigger hard drive, larger screen, total ...
  1 week ago

• Focus on shopper marketing

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  The Lab is proud to announce our partnership with the In-Store Marketing Institute. We’ve partnered to provide our clients with greater insight into the shopper marketing field, and the Institute will be an integral part of our Retail Experience Center which is opening in 2010. We sat down over email to discuss what ...
  1 week ago

• MIT Media Lab elevates transparency [del.icio.us]

  
  Imran Ali — Authority: 131
  “The first people were a salon des refuses,’’ says Negroponte. “They were the misfits who didn’t fit into the academic categories.’’
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• 2009: To paraphrase Colbert, we called it.

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  This has been a big year of growth and change for the Lab. We’ve enjoyed the insight from our new president, John Ross, who is leading our retail practice (focused on the effect emerging media has on the purchase funnel). We’re also full steam ahead on new research capabilities and as always, our consulting work ...
  1 week ago

• ImpreMedia Plans NYC Community Blogging Partnership

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 569
  Spanish-language online and print news publisher impreMedia will be setting up an impreMedia Community E-Journalism Media Lab in the newsroom of El Diario La Prensa in New York to assist local bloggers in their efforts at covering the community.  Bloggers will participate in a four-week orientation session at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Watch Pranav Mistry’s “The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology” demos at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 128
  We’ve already seen MIT researcher Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense projector-based augmented-reality system in some cool demos, but he just gave a TED talk and his latest ideas are the wildest yet. At TEDIndia , Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smartphones killed the email star

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  Email marketers are in a dire situation. Many of them don’t know it yet. One of the major activities for smartphone users involves checking email. For marketing emails, while the current best practices dictate formatting emails to support both text-only and HTML email clients, the HTML versions don’t scale well ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holiday shopping gets social

  
  The Future of Media — Authority: 114
  Retailers and sellers looking for innovative ways to reach their customers this holiday season are looking towards social media as an emerging marketing and business tool.  According to a study by Shop.org, almost half of retailers surveyed said they would increase their use of social media this holiday season. So ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Future of the Lab

  
  PIKSEL — Authority: 116
  INVITATION TO THE OPENING OF THE FUTURE OF THE LABFrom November 30th until December 2nd, BALTAN Laboratories is hosting an international expert meeting titled The Future of the Lab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven. These three days bring together participants from media art labs and lab programmes worldwide – from Australia ...
  2 weeks ago

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