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Ah, software problems. We’ve all experienced them in varying degrees – sometimes it’s just a stupid online video that won’t load, and sometimes the operating system itself gives up. Now imagine a future where programs can still be compromised, or attacked, but will no longer crash or hang. A group of MIT researchers, led by…
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October 30th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech strange + wonderful technology
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Here’s another one of them MAVs that’ll soon be flying all over the place. A group of MIT students – Abe Bachrach, Anton de Winter, Ruije He, Garrett Hemann and Sam Prentice (I think I got +10 to my IQ after spelling their names) – developed an autonomous flight system that could sweep and analyze…
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October 16th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: future tech gps + navigation mobile tech robots strange + wonderful technology
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Last October, Pattie Maes had the idea of making a gesture-controlled interface similar to what was in the movie Minority Report. But unlike the interface in the movie, which was projected onto a screen and was thus stationary, Maes wanted a cheaper and portable equivalent. One that people could walk around with, projecting stuff all…
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May 22nd, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: computing future tech gadgets gps + navigation interactive mobile tech technology
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MIT engineers Joe Paradiso and Yasuhiro Ono want to patent what they’re calling “Distributed Acoustic Conversation Shielding”. Yup, it’s like Get Smart’s Cone of Silence, except that it actually works. I hope. Paradiso and Ono’s acoustic shielding makes use of a network of transducers – speakers and sensors – that can distinguish the people having a…
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May 20th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: audio future tech strange + wonderful technology