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• MIT Media Lab's androids are adding empathy to their armoury

  12 November 2012
  

  Each Nexi android can hold objects of up to 5kg and move around on flat terrain, while Kinect-like sensors can detect a human's facial expressions and where they're looking »

• MIT's brain-reading helmet could help you cycle safely

• Thanks to 'Truth Goggles', internet lies are about to get busted

• Hiriko: Drive it, fold it, park it

• A room for making anything: Inside MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms

Features

• Open university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab

  15 November 2012
  

  Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT’s Media Lab –- with the building as just one hub on the network »

• Nature's architect: explore MIT's 'wearable mythologies' in pictures

• Seeing the light: Ed Boyden's tools for brain hackers

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• Tod Machover invents instruments, robot operas –- oh, and Guitar Hero

  12 November 2012
  

  In the autumn of 1978, Giuseppe di Giogno, a nuclear physicist, abandoned his research on matter-antimatter reactions to start making analogue synthesisers in a basement »

• LuminAR turns bulbs into robotic digital information devices

• Notes predict votes

• MaKey MaKey: Who wants to use bananas as a computer keyboard?

• How to make your own mobile phone

Test

• Test: Best tablet computers for children reviewed

  12 November 2012
  

  Wired reviews the best iPad alternatives for kids who want their own tablets »

How to

• How to experiment on your baby

  12 November 2012
  

  New parents often seem surgically attached to their camera when their baby is born, but MIT professor Deb Roy went a few steps further »

• How to sketch circuits

• How to win at Rock Band

Ideas Bank

• Henry Lieberman: Say hello to smarter apps that fulfil your wishes

  12 November 2012
  

  A desktop is like a toolbox, full of hammers and screwdrivers. It's up to me to know what tool to use for the job, use it correctly and put it away »

• Going beyond the one-bit democracy

• Sep Kamvar: 'We need more nourishing metrics than downloads'

• Negroponte: 'MIT Media Lab is vital to the digital revolution'

• 'Want to predict the market? Look inside your cellphone'

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• Medic on the wall: how Ming-Zher Poh’s mirror displays your pulse

• The big question: What new tech will be significant in ten years' time?

• Give your appliances their voice

• QR to VR: The smartcode rebooted

• 'Name that tune' finds its vocation: diagnosing Alzheimer's disease

• Front-seat driver: MIT's friendly car-bot 'AIDA' just wants to help

• How Ramesh Raskar is inventing a new field in vision at MIT Media Lab

• Snooping just got fun with DoppelLab

• The all-seeing home

• FreeD: a stabiliser for first-time sculptors

• With 'Scratch', tech education is child's play

• Sepandar Kamvar’s 'Dog' language opens up artistic possibilities

• Programmer turns computer algorithms into easily fabricated designs

• Kinetic sculpture bridges the physical and digital

• Gibbering robo-hamster Furby can't touch the DragonBot

• MIT's Changing Places group helps transform your gym into a bedroom

• Bone and silk are inspiring Neri Oxman to invent new ways of construction

• Six-Forty by Four-Eighty: physical pixel art

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Six-Forty by Four-Eighty: physical pixel art

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