MIT Media Lab

MIT Media Lab programmes bacteria to respond to sweat

Big Ideas

MIT Media Lab programmes bacteria to respond to sweat

US – The lab is using genetically modified bacteria to design running shoes that glow as the wearer perspires.
Design : Retail : Technology
Brand New Ethics

Viewpoints

Brand New Ethics

Should brands decide on the moral codes of artificial intelligence?
AI : Ethics : Autonomous Vehicles
Food for thought

Big Ideas

Food for thought

North America – Discount retailer Target has launched a Food + Future coLab incubator designed to help improve people's understanding of ...
Target : Food + Future CoLab : Food Futures
Group therapy

Big Ideas

Group therapy

Global – Koko is a social media network that crowdsources advice to help users overcome stressful thoughts.
Koko : Peer To Peer : Cognitive Therapy
Living clothing

News

Living clothing

Boston – MIT Media Lab graduate student Lining Yao has created clothing embedded with living bacteria.
MIT Media Lab : Lining Yao : Bacteria
DIY DNA

News

DIY DNA

Montreal – Amino is an at-home kit that lets children and adults use their own DNA for synthetic biology experiments. 
Re-enlightenment Rising : Citizen Science : Synthetic Biology
WIRED 2015 Show Review

Big Ideas

WIRED 2015 Show Review

With more than 50 speakers in just two days, the WIRED 2015 show touched on topics as diverse as start-ups with a social impact to the secret behin...
Carlo Ratti : Exo Protein : Interfaces
SXSW Interactive 2015: Part 1

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2015: Part 1

In 2015, SXSW Interactive featured exuberant debates about technology, from synthetic biology to retail disruption and emerging media and storytel...
SXSW : Synthetic Biology : Virtual Reality
SXSW: Living circuits

Big Ideas

SXSW: Living circuits

Austin, Texas – Consumer biotechnology company Synbiota has launched DNA Tinker Studio, a kit that enables non-specialists to build working circu...
SXSW : Synthetic Biology : Synbiota
Everyday Re-enchantment

Micro Trends

Everyday Re-enchantment

The advent of the Internet of Things need not mean a house full of sterile hubs and sensors. Increasingly, LS:N Global has noted a marriage of tech...
Awakening Tech : Delirious Home : Yves Béhar
New on-screen technology compensates for vision defects

Big Ideas

New on-screen technology compensates for vision defects

Researchers have developed digital display technology that corrects for vision defects by manipulating pixels on-screen.
MIT Media Lab : Smartphones : Vision
Jibo

Design Directions

Jibo

Ask someone to name the most obvious sci-fi clichés and they’ll probably talk about flying cars, food in capsule form and teleportation. But the co...
Jibo : Social Robotics : MIT Media Lab
Inside 3D Printing 2014

Big Ideas

Inside 3D Printing 2014

The second Inside 3D Printing show, held on 2–4 April in New York, showed that the technology has come far in the short space of a year.
Inside 3D Printing : New York : 3D Printing
SXSW Interactive 2014 - Part 2

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2014 - Part 2

Fashion brands and retailers were out in force for South by Southwest Interactive 2014, and ‘fashion tech’ became something of a catchall buzzwor...
SXSW : SXSW Interactive : SXSWi
SXSW Interactive 2014 - Part 1

Big Ideas

SXSW Interactive 2014 - Part 1

The idea still seems unlikely: every year, for five days in March, a mid-size city in Texas is transformed into the world’s undisputed hub for cr...
SXSW : SXSW Interactive : SXSWi
Silk Pavilion

Design Directions

Silk Pavilion

Designers and engineers are increasingly making work that is not simply inspired by nature, but partially built using natural processes. Companies ...
Design : Biology : Bio-facture
Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo: Overview

Big Ideas

Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo: Overview

Inside 3D Printing, one of the first large events dedicated to exploring the present and future impact of 3D printing, brought together thought lea...
New York : D-Shape : MGX By Materialise
Transforming car set to hit the roads by 2013

Big Ideas

Transforming car set to hit the roads by 2013

Transforming car set to hit the roads by 2013
Cars : Transforming : MIT Media Lab
Key idea: MaKey MaKey is a new type of keyboard

News

Key idea: MaKey MaKey is a new type of keyboard

Key idea: MaKey MaKey is a new type of keyboard
Creativity : USB : Computers
Tool predicts behaviour by studying media usage

Big Ideas

Tool predicts behaviour by studying media usage

Tool predicts behaviour by studying media usage
MIT Media Lab : Human Dynamics Laboratory : Logic
Micro motor: Mobility evolves with fold-up car

News

Micro motor: Mobility evolves with fold-up car

Micro motor: Mobility evolves with fold-up car
Transport : Basque Country : Foldable
Colour-coded: GF Smith runs new Print Test

News

Colour-coded: GF Smith runs new Print Test

Colour-coded: GF Smith runs new Print Test
Data : Visualisation : Print
It’s personal: Logo design shows the light

News

It’s personal: Logo design shows the light

It’s personal: Logo design shows the light
Data : Visualisation : Algorithm
John Kestner : Make technology human

Viewpoints

John Kestner : Make technology human

MIT Media Lab research affiliate John Kestner talks about making technology human. 
Phy-gital : John Kestner : MIT Media Lab
Interest in provenance keeps brands on track

Big Ideas

Interest in provenance keeps brands on track

Interest in provenance keeps brands on track
Craftsmanship : Authenticity : Heritage
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