Cataracts are the chief cause of preventable blindness, but diagnosing the condition in remote parts of the world is tricky--unless you've invented a smartphone system that can do most of the imaging and analysis.READ»
There's always a hand out-stretched begging for cash for a cause, it seems. But here's a robotic one, attached to Little Red (Digital) Riding Hood. Will cuteness deliver more cash?READ»
Last week, we reported on why you should start a company in Boston, citing the city's large supply of smart, creative people. Now Boston.com has created an innovation tour modeled after the Freedom Trail. As you might expect, most ...READ»
Augmented reality on smartphones may well be a killer app, but MIT's Fluid Interfaces group is already moving beyond the confines of a GPS-capable cellphone to create a data-driven "Sixth Sense."
The ...READ»
Working in MIT's Media Lab Personal Robotics Group must be a good gig--they get to create and scientifically "play about with" some fantastic stuff, such as the Huggable care-over-telepresence robot. But Tofu, the lab's latest ...READ»
