Results tagged “medialab”

The Boston Book Festival is coming up on Saturday. We already talked to an organizer; now it's time for a participant. Nicholas Negroponte is perhaps most famous for founding the MIT Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child, but he's also written his share of content. We talked to him about the role of technology and the future of books. He will be on the Digital Inclusion panel Saturday at 3pm.

Did you know? Red Sox fans get happy when the Red Sox win. And they get sad when the Red Sox lose. They also like to nibble on munchies during the game. The Globe apparently didn't think that their readers were aware of that fact, so they hired the MIT Media Lab for a study that showed up on Sunday's City & Region front page. In the study, MIT's Media Lab observed Elena Tate,...

We've been following the One Laptop Per Child project ever since it spun out of the MIT Media Lab and into its very own organization. The project has secured foreign governments and significant investment commitments to purchase the laptops and the infrastructure to support them. Launch of the project has still sits in a testing phase, reportedly the final beta test stage. Much information is available about the laptops – including the standard operating system...

We've seen the design. We've seen it play doom. We've heard that it's in the production process. And now we get some sugar. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, spun off from the MIT Media Lab, has an operating system for the XO machines they've dubbed "Sugar." It's safe to say that the look and operation is completely different than anything we've seen before. And you thought Vista was different than what you were using.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative that was born from the mind of Nicholas Negroponte when he was heading up the MIT Media Lab is nearing a significant milestone – shipment of the first machines to their intended recipients. Back in the end of November it was reported that the prototypes had come off the production line and had already been loaded up and played Doom. The AP reports today that the program is now looking at a predicted July delivery of some of the first laptops to the children who might use them.

A year and a half ago we first heard about Clocky. It's an alarm clock that would run from you as soon as you hit the snooze. The brilliant idea came from the MIT Media Lab as a project of one of their students. A prototype made the way around the internet in pictures. The shag carpeted festooned version of the clock was a theoretical hit – commercial production was only a promise and a...

The announcement came out around this time last year that MIT Media Lab Co-Founder and former Director Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization were nearing a working prototype of a $100 laptop to get to more children around the world. The OLPC would help break down the digital divide by providing the poor with access to the tools of the digital age. Our post on the matter may have set the...

Oh, MIT, you never cease to charm us. Today we came across another fabulous Media Lab creation, and best of all, it's not just some piece of gadgetry that is functionally nothing more than a toy - it's a real-life toy!

Oh, the crazy romantics at MIT! What'll they think of next? The good folks at that fine institution's Media Lab have apparently turned their attention briefly from creating affordable laptops for third-world kids to take on a more pressing problem: letting enamored alcoholics in different cities drink together, just like old times. They've created pairs of wine glasses with wirelessly activated, embedded lights that glow when both are being drunk from at once, although the drinkers are separated by many miles.

Bostonist prefers the tried and true method of shaming people into doing the work they’ve promised. That was our sole intention in calling out Cameron Marlow publicly on not sharing his Weblog Survey data with us (well, us and the rest of the ‘net). It was an idea we’d picked up from Xian. We posed some questions and the seeming lack of substantive response was noted as it quickly made way to other local channels.

Last summer when it was hot outside bloggers sat at the comfort of their cubes happily blogging away. Many, both local and national favorites, took a break from their musings to answer some questions for a study being conducted under the supervision of the local technocrats at MIT’s Media Lab. Cameron, founder of blogdex.net, was working on his PhD thesis, he needed data so he asked the blogosphere to help. They did. In return he gave them a badge and a promise. Site badges were adorned with cute sayings like “I Made Some Science,” “I’m a Statistic,” and, as pictured, “Free Cameron.” The promise was availability to interested bloggers about the results.

Those genius engineers over at MIT have developed a gizmo that forces you to find it after the first tapping of the snooze button. The alarm clock, with its cutesy handle Clocky, has wheels and plush carpet padding. When you hit the snooze button Clocky travels, it wheels itself to a new location where you’ll have to find it rather than just extending your arm once again to hit that magic button. Bostonist thinks this...