Boston Remembers MIT Officer Sean Collier

Collier died early Friday morning during a confrontation with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Saturday night, the Boston Police Department, MIT students and hundreds of others lined the streets to honor him.

Erica Futterman a month ago 46 responses

MIT Baseball Captain Comes Out Of The Closet

The “T” stands for tolerance.

Jack Moore 3 months ago 52 responses

Self-Taught Teen Wows MIT

Completely self-taught, Kelvin Doe is an engineering prodigy from Sierra Leone, Africa. He’s the youngest person ever to be invited to MIT’s Visiting Practitioner’s Program for international development.

TxBlackLabel 6 months ago 167 responses

If Gadgets Could Only See Our Faces

The MIT researchers behind Affectiva want technology to understand why you sometimes want to throw it off a cliff.

Allison McCann 9 months ago 5 responses

Robots Dance To "Thriller"

Built by Aldebaran Robotics and programmed by MIT’s Patrick Bechon and Jean-Jacques Slotine to get down in unison (using quorum sensing), these NAO robots are quite a coordinated bunch.

TxBlackLabel 11 months ago 35 responses

MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turns Building Into a Playable Game of Tetris [Slideshow + Video] on bostinno.com ›

The students at MIT love a good hack, but what’s better than playing a game while doing it? This week, a team took over the side of MIT’s Green Building and turned it into a giant, playable, multi-color Tetris game.

BostInno a year ago 1 response

Cookie-Baking Robot

Him and Paula Deen should make a cooking show. Those culinary robotics nerds at MIT have just made grandma obsolete. Via Watch Video ›

Ally W. a year ago 9 responses

MIT Makes A (Really Bad) Princess Leia Hologram

Using a hacked Kinect and 16 lo-res infrared cameras, the MIT Media Lab created this structured light moving image of a reenactment of Princess Leia’s call for help from Star Wars. Making its premiere at the Practical Holography XXV conference in San Francisco (well, that exists), the final product leaves a little to be desired and I’m not just talking about the grad student’s acting skills. (Source, Via) View Media ›

Jed Oliver 2 years ago 27 responses

Extreme Origami Sculptures At MIT

I never thought I’d hear extreme and origami in the same sentence, but the guys at MIT mean serious business when they fold their paper squares. This isn’t your beginner paper crane either- it’s crazy, complicated dragonflies that take weeks to complete! That is dedication. View List ›

Ashley Baccam 2 years ago 45 responses

MIT Student’s Nanotech Threads Adjust to Any Season on switched.com ›

It may not garner any fashion awards, but a line of clothing developed by an MIT student can help regulate the body’s temperature.

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Flyfire

Flyfire is a project by some MIT folks that aims to “transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive environment”. They use tons of tiny helicopters with small LEDs to create some pretty cool pictures and effects. I want, like, 200 of these. Read more about it here. Watch Video ›

John Winskowicz 2 years ago 43 responses

A Thousand Word Review On Twilight

It’s true what they say about a picture. View Image ›

theeclectic 2 years ago 80 responses

Song To Get Into MIT

Someone sent me this this link for a guy who was waitlisted at MIT, and wrote a song as a plea to help his chances of getting off the waitlist. Because we all know that if there’s one thing that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology loves, it’s the humanities. Watch Video ›

Brian Feldman 3 years ago 76 responses

MIT Students Rickroll Boston

A group of MIT students climbed up the scaffolding of the campus’ “Great Dome” (which looks like music bars) and installed seven notes. Those noted are the first seven notes of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” View Image ›

Tanner Ringerud 3 years ago 110 responses

How The Internet Sees You on personas.media.mit.edu ›

“Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum - It creates a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.”

Patrick Duggan 3 years ago 16 responses

LOLrio Kart

The LOLrioKart is a shopping cart pimped out with a motor and wheels that’s rigged to go up to 45MPH. I’m quite sure there’s life-changing brilliance coming from the great minds at MIT. This, on the other hand, is just showing off. I’d like to see someone try and stop this thing with a banana peel. Watch Video ›

Lindsey W. 3 years ago 22 responses

The Smoot

Fifty years ago this weekend, the 5’7” Oliver Smoot was used by his MIT fraternity brothers to mark the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, in what they called smoots. The Harvard Bridge is officially 364.4 smoots long, plus or minus one ear. It smoot went on to become an internationally recognized yet non-standardized unit of measurement, and even appears as an option of measurement in Google Earth. Yay for Nerds! Read More ›

Brian Ries 4 years ago respond