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NASA To Use Google And MIT Backed Satellite For Finding New Planets
04/07/2013, NASA has announced that it is launching a mission to hunt for new planets. Under NASA’s Astrophysics Explorer program, the planet hunting mission is expected to be launched in 2017. The agency will be making use of TESS or Transiting [...]
Motion Amplification Reveals Invisible Life Signs
03/01/2013, Researchers from the MIT have come up with a great way to use tiny changes in video recordings to reveal things that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye and would require on-body sensors to show. For example, by [...]
Real Life Transformers On The Way?
11/30/2012, It seems that a bunch of scientists over at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms has managed to come up with a new generation robot which could prove to be a precursor to the fantasy organic robotic lifeforms that we [...]
MIT pencil draws out sensors with carbon nanotubes
10/11/2012, Have you played the game Scribblenauts? I am quite sure that those who have given it a go would have most likely fallen in love with the title. Well, if you have a penchant for drawing stuff using a pencil, [...]
Indoor flying plane smart enough to avoid obstacles while flying in a tight spot
08/12/2012, You know for sure that walking through the hallowed hallways of MIT alone would make you feel as though your IQ total was raised by a few more points, due to all the intelligence that oozes out from that place. [...]
Meshworm robot from MIT creeps along like an earthworm
08/09/2012, Earthworm Jim would be proud of his mechanical kin – the Meshworm robot that is the brainchild of scientists over at the MIT. Just take a look at the video above of the Meshworm in action, and tell me that [...]
New MIT chip harvests energy from light, heat and vibrations
07/09/2012, One thing about modern day devices would be this – they are not exactly the most efficient items lying around the home. After all, how many of you moderate users of a smartphone are able to make it last for [...]
MIT’s security cameras are smart enough to figure out the bad guys
06/07/2012, When it comes to security cameras, they are only of any good if there is someone watching all the goings on, and making the appropriate response should a crime be caught in progress. Alternatively, just like in any good action [...]
Self-assembly polymers conjure 3D structures
06/06/2012, The smart folks over at MIT have discovered a spanking new method of creating complex three-dimensional structures through the use of self-assembling polymer materials. These polymer materials will form tiny wires and junctions, and this kind of groundbreaking work might [...]
Have your smile broken down into an algorithm
05/28/2012, Smile, you’re on Candid Camera! That was quite the catchphrase many years ago back when I was just a wee lad, and I would dare say that the smiles (most of the time, they end up as laughs) featured in [...]
LiquiGlide; No More Ketchup Bottle Thumping
05/25/2012, It is an assumption that most of us have had our share of battles with stubborn ketchup that just doesn’t want to come out of the bottle. As we wait for it to slowly make its way towards the bottle [...]
MIT Student Builds Awesome Mario Kart called Chibikart
05/08/2012, A student from MIT called Charles Guan decided to build a working version of the Mario Kart. The vehicle that he has dubbed Chibikart is built from scratch and it apparently took him three weeks to build right up until [...]
Harvard and MIT announces edX, a series of free online courses
05/03/2012, Have you always wished that you could have gone to top tier universities such as Harvard or MIT? Well thanks to Harvard and MIT’s newly announcement partnership, you will now be able to get a taste of the sort of [...]
