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Category Archives: Technology
Pune: A (Nearly) Waste-Free City
Note: This blog post was originally published on the MIT Public Service Center website. It’s the tenth post in a blog series sharing findings from a research project I’m working on throughout the month of January. January 26, 2012 Paul Artiuch and … Continue reading
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The Japanese Doing Crazy Things With Quantum Levitation
Really crazy: One of the early quantum levitation experiments came out of Israel earlier this year. The video and website are worth checking out as well if you’re into this sort of thing.
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Innovation Strategy and the Technology S-Curve
Two of my classmates, Matt Lieber and Michael Shafrir, put together a promo video for the Innovation Strategy course that will be taught by Professor Pierre Azoulay this spring at MIT Sloan: The technology s-curve. There you have it. “Cameras, diapers, … Continue reading
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Creepy Video of the Day
“Meet Ant-Roach, an inflatable clackety six-legged robot with a protruding proboscis”: The name was chosen “because it reminds its creators of a cross between an anteater and a cockroach.” Some people take a ride: More here.
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Missions to Mars
This is just a nice infographic: And this was just a weird movie.
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Eric-Schmidt Backed “Slice”
Via Techcrunch, Eric Schmidt is backing a new start-up, Slice, that aims to organize and track your online purchases by querying purchase data from your inbox. I gave it a shot earlier this week, and found it to be surprisingly … Continue reading
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Creepy Things From Japan
The Japanese have designed a robotic polar bear to “gently smack snorers in the face.” I’m not sure how this is supposed to work in practice, but the video makes it look even creepier than it sounds:
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The MIT Mood Meter
It was just written up in Popular Science: The Mood Meter came about when a team of researchers at the place from whence all awesome things come, MIT’s Media Lab, hooked up a camera and screen (or projector) to some … Continue reading
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