Mar 29
Using a beam of light, MIT researchers have turned on a memory in a mouse. Researchers chose to test a simple kind of memory — a fear memory. In one experiment, mice were put in a chamber, allowed to explore, and given a foot shock. The next time the mice were put in the same …
Mar 17
MIT’s Media Lab has hooked up a huge, homemade 1970s synthesizer to the Internet, allowing people to remotely control its machine parts and listen to the results. You can do both here. Patchwerk lets you control a massive analog synthesizer from your browser, and streams the results back to you and everyone connected. The interface …
Aug 30
So humans can invent a fleet of autonomous solar-powered, sea-swarm robots made “with ultra-light nanowire mesh that can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil” and use these to clean up an oil spill in 30 days but we can’t figure out a way to actually use solar power to meet our energy …
Aug 25
In 2006 I posted about an interesting new tech that printed bacon using a simple inkjet printer. It’s now 2010 and printable food is well on its way to becoming a product. Allow me to introduce the Digital Fabricator by MIT. The Digital Fabricator is a personal, three-dimensional printer for food, which works by storing, …
