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Design
This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe
2:20PM Rosa Golijan | Every single day we oooh and aahhh over the latest design concepts, but right now, let’s focus on one of the minds behind such designs and smile in awe of her motivations and inspirations. Meet MIT designer, Neri Oxman. More »
Random Stuff
The Fashion Icons Of Wearable Computing
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | I was wondering what Aimee Mullins was running from, and now I suspect that it might’ve been these fellows. I’m sure they’re great people, being a part of MIT’s Wearable Computing team and all, but I would run too. More »
Gadgets
MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads And More
1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Diana Eng, who you might remember as Project Runway’s premiere nerd designer, took a look at MIT’s Media Lab and found some pretty cool stuff, mostly run off of Arduino microcontrollers. Check it out. More »
Robots
12:00PM Sean Fallon | Actually, the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) won’t be riding in the backseat, it’s mounted right on the dashboard — but it will make comments on how you drive. It also reacts to your emotional state and helps you navigate. More »
MIT’s AIDA Robot Will Be The Ultimate Backseat Driver
12:00PM Sean Fallon | Actually, the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) won’t be riding in the backseat, it’s mounted right on the dashboard — but it will make comments on how you drive. It also reacts to your emotional state and helps you navigate. More »
Online
Free Open Technology Courses That Will Save You Money
7:20AM Sean Fallon | I get annoyed when I think about all of the money I spent on tertiary education only to find that the internet is riddled with free technology courses from prestigious schools like MIT. More »
Hardware
100-Core Tilera TILE-Gx Processors Planned For 2011
10:56PM Danny Allen | While Intel and AMD look to make a complete jump to 8-cores, Tilera (an MIT start-up) says its upcoming 100-core chip has “at least four times the compute performance of an Intel Nehalem-Ex, while burning a third of the power”. More »
Science
Teapots Have A Dribbling Problem — Who Knew?
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Just like grandpa, teapots have long suffered from a dribbling problem. No longer. More »
Gadgets
Remainders- Things We Didn’t Post
2:00PM Wilson Rothman | Apple Second Only To Google In Social-Network Buzz…Robots Run Like Cheetahs, Climb Like Geckos…Drunk on Ego, NPR Brands Its Own Internet Radio…San Diego Finally Puts All That Sunshine to Good Use More »
Gadgets
MIT Is About To Revolutionise The Pop-Up Book
9:20AM Sean Fallon | In addition to curing blindness and developing solar cars, the minds at MIT have found time to revolutionize the world of pop-up books by integrating electronics for more “dynamic interactivity.” More »
Robots
