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LabCAST

Summary: At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future. LabCAST is the video podcast of the MIT Media Lab. Learn about the Lab's cutting edge research and catch a glimpse of the lab in action.

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Podcasts:

 #84 Reading Through Closed Books | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Spatial resolution, spectral contrast, and occlusion are three major bottlenecks in current imaging technologies for non-invasive inspection of complex samples such as closed books. We empower the time-of-flight capabilities of conventional THz time domain spectroscopy and combine it with its spectral capabilities to computationally overcome these bottlenecks. Our study reports successful unsupervised content extraction through [...]

 #83 DuoSkin | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin. Using gold metal leaf, a material that is cheap, skin-friendly, and robust for everyday wear, we demonstrate three types of on-skin interfaces: sensing touch input, displaying output, and wireless communication. DuoSkin draws from the [...]

 #82 Holosuite | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Holosuite is an interactive end-to-end 3D telepresence application built for researching the applications of holographic and advanced 3D displays. Two distant 3D worlds are merged seamlessly into one, wherein a local user and a remote user can manipulate, co-visualize and interact with shared 3D models in a highly realistic and immersive environment.

 #81 Advancing Wellbeing | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Are the things we’re inventing for the future taking into account our deepest human needs? The Advancing Wellbeing initiative explores not only health, but the culture of health: our physical, emotional, and social wellbeing. Advancing Wellbeing research addresses the role of technology in shaping our health, and explores new approaches and solutions to wellbeing.

 #80 Live Objects | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Live Objects are wireless devices that enrich a user’s experience of the surrounding environment. Live Objects are associated with real objects, and can stream media content without an Internet connection.

 #79 Lemann Creative Institute | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

From January 25-29, 2016, the MIT Media Lab invited 11 Brazilian educators, researchers, artists, and entrepreneurs to attend the first Lemann Creative Learning Institute. For a week, the team worked with Media Lab faculty and students to design new technologies, activities, and services to foster creative learning in Brazil.

 #78 Reality Editor | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Reality Editor is a new kind of tool that empowers users to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. With Reality Editor, the invisible capabilities of objects become visible–and editable. Drag a virtual line from one object to another using a smartphone, and create a new relationship between them. With this simplicity, users can [...]

 #77 bioLogic | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

In an era where bio is the new interface, we are imagining a world where actuators and sensors can be grown rather than manufactured, and derived from nature as opposed to engineered in factories. bioLogic is a synthetic bio-skin that reacts to body heat and sweat via these living actuators.

 #76 Mushtari | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with synthetic microorganisms that can enhance and augment biological functionality? Meet Mushtari, a 3D-printed wearable designed as a 58 meter long microbial factory that uses synthetic biology to convert sunlight into useful products for humans and microbes.

 #75 EmotiveModeler | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

Whether or not we’re experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their forms. EmotiveModeler integrates knowledge about our emotive perception of shapes into a CAD tool that uses descriptive adjectives as an input to aid both expert and novice designers in creating objects that can [...]

 #74 Director’s Fellows Program | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

An overview of the MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows Program, a unique program that connects the research from the Lab with communities and causes all over the world. This video was produced for the 2015 Spring Member Meeting.

 #73 eyeMITRA | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

eyeMITRA allows anyone to easily and non-invasively explore the back of the eye, opening possibilities for new assessments of eye health and for exploration of systemic illnesses that manifest in the eye. This work is built upon the Camera Culture group’s pioneering research in computational photography.

 #72 TRANSFORM | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from a piece of still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data and energy.

 #71 CityHome | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

The CityHome is an ultra-efficient, responsive urban home, providing a hardware and software ecosystem for personal space customization. A micro-unit apartment developed by Kent Larson’s Changing Places Research Group.

 #70 ScratchJr | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: Unknown

ScratchJr is a new version of the Scratch programming language designed for children ages five to seven. Using ScratchJr, kids can build their own animated stories, interactive games, collages, and other creative projects. ScratchJr teaches kids a new form of literacy: code. By learning to code, kids learn new ways of thinking, problem-solving, and expressing [...]

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