In the way to be a better and more qualified individual within the field of product development, innovation or to commercialize products and services, you have to learn and adapt all your life. Today you can learn nearly everything, mostly theoretical but also practical, sitting behind your computer screen. …
3-D Printing Is So Last Year: MIT’s “Self-Assembling Sand” Builds Objects Instantly IT SOUNDS LIKE SCI-FI, AND IT COULD EVENTUALLY MAKE RAPID-PROTOTYPING SEEM QUAINT. If Terminator 2 taught us anything, it was that a properly timed thumbs-up can make us cry. Also, autonomous, self-shaping blobs are a …
If solar power had a sound bite, a tagline, a motto, it would be “use it or lose it.” That’s because technologies designed to harness solar energy — for example, photovoltaics that capture photons or solar-thermal collectors that harvest heat — are not designed to store it. The sun comes …
Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off. This by study how photosensitive proteins can be used to affect the workings of the brain. The equipment in Ed Boyden’s lab at MIT is nothing if not eclectic. There are machines for analyzing and assembling genes; a …
En av talarna på Innovation in Mind i Lund 11-12 nov 2010 var Rosalind W. Picard, som bl a grundat Affectiva och forskar på MIT inom området Affective Computing. Hennes forskning har bl a lett till utveckling av programvara som mäter din puls via webcam, och nedan ser ni en film om hur ansiktsuttrycket visar …
