LabCAST

The Camera Culture group presents Bokodes, tiny imperceptible barcodes that can be read by a standard camera positioned up to four meters away to decode identity, and six-degree-of-freedom pose (angle and distance).

The Personal Robots group presents a scenario demonstrating mixed-initiative human-robot teaming for disaster response.

Consumer electronics are becoming more complicated and intimidating. Roadie is a system that uses common-sense reasoning to discern the users’ intentions, and uses this knowledge to help users reach their goals.

extrACT is a group of software tools being developed for use by communities affected by extractive industries.

The graspables system is a prototype handheld device that recognizes how it is being held and adjusts its functionality accordingly.

Professor Ed Boyden introduces the Media Lab’s Synthetic Neurobiology group, which is inventing and applying tools for the analysis and engineering of brain circuits.

The first conference focused on the ideas, applications, and joys of Scratch.

Selectricity is voting machinery for the masses. See how electronic voting technology can help groups make better decisions, more easily.

What do you get when you cross a guitar and a Wii controller? A way to extend the guitar intuitively by mapping audio effects onto gestures.

Setting pixels free, and blurring the boundary between street lighting and digital displays.

Robotics, documentary film, algorithms, and circuit boards: just a few of the many projects with undergraduate researchers at the Media Lab.

Physical Heart, Virtual Body is a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual sound processing capabilities.

The Center for Future Civic Media is a joint effort between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. It is working to create technical and social systems for sharing, prioritizing, organizing, and acting on information.

Storied Navigation is a novel approach to constructing a story based on a collection of digital video and audio. Media sequences are tagged with free-text annotations and stored as a collection. The system can then suggest media based on the context of the story.

The RoboScooter is a lightweight, folding, electric motor scooter. It is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive mobility in urban areas.