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MIT Researchers Try To Crack Already Solved Problem of Predicting Commute Times

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2008-10-09 14:19:41 by Priya Ganapati in Gadget Lab
...MIT are working on project that will collect real-time traffic and other road conditions from drivers and share it across a network in a bid to potentially reduce commute times Called CarTel, it uses a computer in the car about the size of a cellphone that connects via existing WiFi networks to a web server. Across a number of drivers, the...
 
Tags: real-time traffic data, real-time, mit, traffic, historical traffic information, information, real-time traffic information, transfer, wifi antenna mit
 
 
 
 
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MIT Student Invents Effective Bacteriophage

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2008-02-28 08:45:25 by Michael in Medgadget
...MIT, was awarded the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for developing a bacteriophage, which, in conjunction with antibiotics, can become a potent weapon against drug resistant bacteria. Lu has engineered bacteriophage to boost antibiotic effectiveness. The bacteriophage carries DNA that codes for factors that target bacterial gene networks, which...
 
Tags: bacteriophage, bacteria beware, bacteria, kill food-borne bacteria, treatment, bacteriophage carries dna, current treatment methods, natural bacteriophage, drug resistant bacteria
 
 
 
 
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MIT Prof Shows Off Robot Dogs, Wallet Computers, Wearable Tech

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2008-04-22 16:59:03 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
MIT Media Lab Associate Professor Ted Selker loves objects that are easy to handle and hates the user interface of many modern cell phones. This is why he was a perfect person to talk about the future of human interfaces in mobile systems at today's Mobile Future conference Professor Selker, who gained worldwide notoriety with his creation of...
 
Tags: mit media lab, visual attentive interfaces, interfaces, prof, dog answers, dog, head, cell phones, eraser-head cursor button
 
 
 
 
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MIT Thermoelectric Device Could Revolutionize Home Heating [Hot Stuff]

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2008-07-26 11:00:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...MIT. The institute already produces 80% of its own energy, courtesy of its on campus "cogeneration plant," but a few students have found a way to make the system even more self-sufficient using a new thermoelectric prototype. The great thing is the device has the potential for applications beyond the walls of MIT, and already the students are...
 
Tags: device, mit, thermoelectric device, simple device, genius farm mit, waste heat, home, waste heat nirvana, mit campus
 
 
 
 
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MIT's Robotic Wheelchair Uses Easy Voice Interface for Navigation

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2008-09-19 12:35:47 by Priya Ganapati in Gadget Lab
MIT researchers are melding speech recognition, adaptive learning and location awareness to create a wheelchair that learns on the fly and moves in response to easy verbal commands such as "take me to the cafeteria" or "go to my room The device navigates from the current location to the next based on a map stored in its memory and saves its...
 
Tags: mit, wheelchair, mit system, mit researchers, wheelchair prototype relies, map, internal map, easy verbal commands, situational awareness
 
 
 
 
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MIT DIY Robotic Wheelchair is Smart and Learns your Environment!

2008-09-20 22:50:57 by max in zedomax.com
 
...MIT researchers have been working on and it might just change the way physically-challenged people get around town The Robotic Wheelchair uses voice commands to navigate the wheelchair itself (which is nothing new) but what is interesting is the fact that the Robotic Wheelchair will remember the places you go such as your living room, the...
 
Tags: wheelchair, robotic wheelchair, mit, gps, solar gps logger, mit system, mobile devices, environment, program wheelchairs
 
 
 
 
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MIT Team Tapped to Design the Airliners of 2030 [Future Planes]

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2008-11-09 19:50:54 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...MIT have been chosen by NASA to create the planes of the future. The future in this case is the year 2030, to be precise, and they'll have $2 million with which to do it. The Seaquest DSV -inspired image above is one of the initial designs pumped out by the team, led by MIT professor Edward Greitzer. In addition to designing sleek planes that...
 
Tags: mit, planes, genius factory mit, future, team, sleek planes, insert lame leg, metal birds quieter, energy efficient
 
 
 
 
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MIT's Huggable Robotic Bear Keeps Ill People From Feeling Sad [Robot Cuddles]

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2008-11-24 10:30:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...MIT," but Huggable is an MIT invention nonetheless: it's another smart robot companion, a bit like Paro meets Teddy Ruxpin. Its body is covered in sensors and motors, including webcams behind his eyes and a speaker in his nose, and its designed to respond to you and react like an electronic pet. But it's a little smarter than Paro: it can act...
 
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MIT Media Lab's Siftables Are Cool, But Ultimately Useless [MIT Media Lab]

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2008-03-15 20:30:09 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
 
...MIT Media Labs are small Post It-sized displays with processing power built in, allowing it to communicate with other Siftables as well as detect motion and proximity. You'll have to see what that means in the video, as they have different examples of shaking these Siftables, connecting them together, and having each respond accordingly to...
 
Tags: mit, siftables, mit media labs, mp3 playersstuff people, neat interactivity, neat toy, detect motion, current form, iphones kiss