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more about #mit more comments → gorehound: this is great.i read about this yesterday more » Xsuit: Who needs microchips when we have teeth? more » Kevin Frushour: This pleases me - it will be good for old folks whose vision is deteriorating. I wonder if they'd be recycled after death. more » Yamato: Science 1, Religion 0 oops! =P more » Bigdamnhero: Woah. The first cyborg's just around the corner. Best Century Ever. I'm already planning on which body parts I'm gonna swap out first. more » Golem100: The Wired article mentions two other studies going on. Tleilaxu eyes for the masses, coming soon. more » Sunshineyness: That is truly amazing. I don't even know what else to say than that's really pretty incredible. Good job science! more » Golem100: Here's a link from one of the responders to the CNET article to a video by another group that did the same experiment. Some of their pictures are eve... more » twDarkflame: How did they trigger the camera? Surely the mechanism to take the pic is the smart thing here, moreso then strapping the camera to the balloon. more » aubreyf: "Their project's total cost for everything was $148" Must be nice having access to weather balloons and helium for free. And a styrofoam cooler, no... more » redqueenmeg: Let's see, can I get a big enough cooler and enough weather balloons to launch myself? PROJECT! more » writermind: That is an amazing idea and well thought out. Worked wonderfully too! more » Belabras: Well it's not Hubble, but that's a great shot nonetheless. more » evildead1971: if it crashed, how did they get the pic? more » NotChoinski: They say it was launched in Sturbridge MA. I bet the little 'notch' in the shoreline is New London Conneticut. more » -
#madscience
A Microchip Placed in the Eye Could Allow the Blind to See
MIT researchers are just three years away from developing a retinal implant that can send visual information directly to the brain. Although it won't completely restore an individual's vision, they would be able to navigate rooms and recognize faces. [Wired] -
#spaceporn
A $150 Space Camera Took This Photo Of The Earth
Two MIT students managed to snap this incredible picture of our planet by spending just $150 on a Canon camera, a weather balloon full of helium, and a styrofoam cooler. The camera reached 93,000 feet before crashing to Earth. [CNET] -
#robots
Robotic Fish Swims Like the Real Thing
MIT's latest robotic fish may not look like much on land, but once it gets in the water, it swims just like the real thing. And it could be an ideal tool for underwater exploration. More » -
#eyestop
When Bus Stops Meet Holodecks
It may look like the gateway into Star Trek: The Next Generation's holodeck, but this is a bus stop... or, rather, "an iPhone-like interactive bus stop," according to its creators at MIT's SENSEable City Lab. Click through to find out what it can do, and where it might show up. More » -
#madscience
New Green Batteries Are Sick, Literally
Science has come up with a new way to terrify us with the news that a team of researchers from MIT may have created an all-new green battery made up of genetically-engineered viruses. More » -
#carsofthefuture
MIT Spinoff Presents Your New (Flightworthy) Ride
Turn in your Prius and get ready to rumble, Jetson-style. That's right: There's a new car in town, and it's flying right at you. More » -
#michelgondry
Gondry Tackles Time at the 'Tute
Quirky, inventive, Oscar-winning writer/director Michel Gondry is penning a new film about time travel, set at MIT. And the physicists went wild! More » -
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#watchmen
What Is David Bowie Doing In Dr. Manhattan's Sweet Pad?
Alex McDowell, the amazing production designer for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Minority Report, takes us inside Dr. Manhattan's digs in Watchmen during a lecture at MIT, and talks easter eggs, Bowie and design. -
#largehadroncollider
Anyone Who Thinks the LHC Will Destroy the World is a T***
Particle physics professor Brian Cox of the University of Manchester has pretty much the final word on Large Hadron Collider fear-mongering with the above quote. What prompted such an outburst? Death threats against scientists working on the LHC. Perhaps an even better question - what does "t***" stand for? More » -
#surveillance
The Art of Monitoring New York City's Telephone Conversations
You can gage how busy New York City is by looking at all the people swarming in the streets, or by smelling the giant piles of trash they've left at the curbs. But there are ways to take stock of the city's populace that are far more revealing. For a new MoMa exhibit this month, MIT's Senseable City Lab chose to expose how talkative New York is by tracking lines of electronic communication into and out of the city. Their project is aptly named the New York Talk Exchange (NYTE). It's also inadvertently a portrait of digital surveillance, showing exactly how easy it is for people to use phone records to monitor which countries New Yorkers are ringing up. More »
