Stories about: MIT Media Lab

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    OLPC's XO-3 tablet to debut at CES 07/01/2012 11:51:52

    One Laptop Per Child's XO-3 tablet is ready to ship after years in the making, and working units will be shown next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte said.
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    New interfaces challenge touch 16/11/2011 05:07:11

    Touchscreens could be extinct if researchers pioneering new human-computer interfaces have anything to say about it. From brain-controlled machines to gesture-driven devices, there's a range of technologies in development that may find their way into everyday electronic devices.
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    MIT robots take stage in new opera 23/03/2011 02:31:12

    An unlikely pair of robots and opera singers teamed up for the U.S. debut of "Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera" in Boston Friday night.
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    Elgan: When the iPhone feels your pain 18/01/2011 00:02:00

    We love our gadgets. But they treat us with an indifference that sometimes feels like contempt. They're like cats.
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    One Laptop Per Child, XO-3 tablet delayed 04/11/2010 10:49:00

    In an interview at the MIT Media Lab, One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said that the XO-3 tablet computer would be first shown sometime in February 2011, about 45 days later than originally planned.
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    OLPC XO-3 tablet delayed 04/11/2010 01:15:00

    Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child said that the XO-3 tablet computer will debut sometime in February 2011, about 45 days later than originally planned.
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    Weekly Tech News Update: 22nd October, 2010 22/10/2010 09:47:00

    Coming up on World Tech Update this week Apple introduces new MacBook Airs, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie announces plans to retire, Starbucks and Yahoo roll out the Starbucks Digital Network, Mitsubishi offers drivers test drives over the Internet, Spain plans to fine Google over its Street View service, smartphones become a dog's best friend in Taiwan and the MIT Media Lab celebrates its 25th anniversary.
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    Weekly Tech News Update: 31st August, 2010 31/08/2010 09:19:00

    On World Tech Update this week Samsung teases its Galaxy Tab, Apple is expected to launch new products, Google Street View irks the French, we take a behind the scenes look at a corporate data center, MIT Media Lab researches develop a table top collaboration system, Windows 95 hits its 15th anniversary and we try out the AR Drone helicopter.
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    MIT app uses mobile phone to determine eyeglass prescription 29/06/2010 03:22:00

    MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a mobile-phone application that, coupled with a small plastic device held over the screen, can determine users' eyeglass prescriptions. Called NETRA or near-eye tool for refractive assessment, the system asks users to align lines on the phone's screen while looking through a small plastic cube.
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    Weekly Tech News Update: 25th June, 2010 25/06/2010 09:43:00

    On World Tech Update this week the iPhone 4 launches to much fanfare, Verizon and Motorola offer some competition with the new Droid X and the MIT Media Lab develops a new technique to test for eyeglass prescriptions.
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    Surround Vision hopes to change TV viewing experience 10/05/2010 04:13:00

    Santiago Alfaro hopes to one day use the Surround Vision technology he created at the MIT Media Lab and work with famous director James Cameron to incorporate it into a film.
 
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