One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

URBANA – University of Illinois graduate student Scott Daigle has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize, given annually to an outstanding student inventor on campus. Daigle, a graduate ...

In his time, Ramesh Raskar has launched and invented a lot of stuff. A camera that can see “around corners”? He did that (here’s the TED talk). A series of mobile phone-based eye tests? He founded a ...

The latest advances in science can help us do amazing things — like fly pilot-less airplanes, send spaceships to Mars and design smaller, and even more powerful, computers. But go to your refrigerator ...

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