MIT Perfecting Objects That Assemble Themselves
MIT designers, scientists and engineers are perfecting self-assembly technologies aimed at reimagining processes of construction, manufacturing and assembly at all scale-lengths.
MIT designers, scientists and engineers are perfecting self-assembly technologies aimed at reimagining processes of construction, manufacturing and assembly at all scale-lengths.
We all know old people have no idea how to operate smart phones. We also know that they shouldn’t be behind the wheel, that can be dangerous.
Has the future of sports finally arrived?
Let’s just say it’s bigger than you could’ve ever imagined, and it’s still getting bigger!
Does the universe have an edge? How about a center? Can we know for certain?
Eggs Without Egg
In one of the all-time great oxymorons, a radical new form of sustainable food, authentic replica eggs comprised entirely of plants, may soon alter global diets.
What do you do when you have hundreds of billions of plastic bags stacking up, along with a need for more powerful and longer lasting batteries?
Magically convert the plastic into batteries worth their weight in gold, that’s what.
Remember the water bottle that filled itself from the air using hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces?
Now, brilliant minds from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peru have deployed a functional billboard that absorbs water from the humid climate, filters it, and instantly makes it available to the locals for drinking, cooking and dumping on their heads.
We’ve grown accustomed to camera based gesture control, but how about using the electrical activity in your muscles to wirelessly control your computer, phone, and other favorite digital technologies?
The MYO armband does just that.
The field of neuroprosthetics has given a great deal of hope to those who had lost the hope of using their bodies normally ever again.
In an amazing presentation, Brazilian scientist Dr. Miguel Nicolelis outlines the evolution of brainwave translation using a brain computer interface.
We know that there are billions upon billion of planets in the known universe. It makes sense that there would be some incredible variety in the climates of each and every celestial body.
But can you imagine a world where ice is hot? How about where rain is comprised of iron?