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Turn up the heat to power your computers and cell phones
You might have been taught in school that energy only changes from one type to another when consumed. If you read between the lines you will realize that while one form of energy is being used, the other ends up being a bi-product: in short it’s wasted. So when you are using computers and cell…
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MIT styled doors which can be opened by iPhones and not keys
Chris Varenhorst from the MIT institute found it tough handling keys after a tiring day of studying. So he took an old Pentium III computer running Ubuntu, a Phidget control board, plus a handfull of servos, solenoids, pistons and actuators, hacking them all together into this elaborate, iPhone-controlled door system. The door opens magically with…
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A robotic gardener to assist in gardening
The MIT Robot Gardener was designed by students of MIT to give you assistance while gardening. Every robo-gardener is provided with a watering pump attached to its robotic arm. Sensors on the robots send water and nutrient request signals to the gardener. When the plants have ripe fruits or vegetables on them, the robot will…
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MIT Engineers develop Lithium Ion batteries that recharge in seconds
One of the major reasons that electric vehicles have not garnered the attention of consumers is the amount of time it takes to recharge it. While a gasoline engine car will take a maximum of 4 mins to be up and running, its electric counterpart will take hours at a stretch to be charged for…
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MIT ‘Tofu’ Robot has OLED eyes and mimics Disney cartoons
A MIT Media Lab graduate student has created a robot that uses circular OLED displays as eyes for enabling new ways to research human-robot social behavior. The new robot named as TOFU because of its stretchy and bouncy actions was based on animation techniques from Disney’s 2D cartoons from the 1950s. According to the creator,…
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MIT give sight to the blind with a new portable digital eye
The premise of the movie Blind Dating seems to becoming true, scientists at MIT have now come up with a digital eye for the blind. Elizabeth Goldring, is the first blind person who was able to see the word “Sun” her new digital eyes, and even take pictures. The original technology behind this idea made…
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MIT report says most of us will say goodbye to fuel by 2035
A new report by MIT called ‘On the Road in 2035: Reducing Transportation’s Petroleum Consumption and GHG Emissions,’ proclaims that the US will reduce its fuel consumption by 30 to 50% in the next 25-30 years. The report tells us of the measures taken by many popular automobiles to make new gasoline engines very fuel…
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6-D display system – MIT researches want to pull a Houdini on you
Don’t you hate it when you get the wrong seat in a cinema hall? The images of the actors all look skewed in wrong angles and it gets worst if you got the ‘All the way front’ seat in the house. Take the case of some flat screens that refuse to show you a clear…
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MIT designs Water Walls
MIT has constructed a building with walls made entirely of water and this was showcased at the recent opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. This first-of-its-kind Digital Water Pavilion illustrates the potential of digital architecture to create spaces that dynamically adjust to people and conditions.
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Comps to “See” like humans thanks to new Image-Recognition Software
A team led by an MIT researcher says that it takes only a few “pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image.” Antonio Torralba, assistant professor in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and contemporaries have been researching what is the smallest amount of information (shortest numerical representation) that…
