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“SixthSense” and the Magic of Fluid Interfaces: An Interview with Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab

October 13, 2009 0 Views 1 Comment

Walking into MIT’s Media Lab is like walking into a digital candy store. On the third floor, you're greeted by an HD display with “Emotional Weather” (data mined from Twitter using an intelligent agent that shows you the emotional content of tweets on any given topic).

Are SpaceX and Tesla Motors the Future of 21st Century Transportation?

August 28, 2009 11590 Views 22 Comments

On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 Flight 4 lifted off at 4:15 p.m. (PDT) from the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launch site on Omelek Island at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in the Central Pacific, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii.

Games That Design Themselves

July 27, 2009 11631 Views 14 Comments

GarageGames was founded by four industry veterans in 2001 with the goal of disrupting the games industry with quality development tools and “upsetting the dominant retail / publisher distribution model.”

Sousveillance: Wearable Computing and Citizen “Undersight”

July 10, 2009 18285 Views 11 Comments

When Canadian police tasered Robert Dziekanski –- a man who had arrived in Vancouver International airport in October 2007 from Poland – it was not the surveillance cameras that helped bring the incident to light.