This Camera Can Read a Book Without Opening It
A new imaging technique can read what is printed on the pages of a book without ever opening it. Continue reading This Camera Can Read a Book Without Opening It
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Bring Doping, Mirofluidics, Photovoltaics, and More Into the Home
Can you make a spectrometer for your home lab all from materials you have sitting around? We might not believe it from a less credible source, but this MIT course does indeed build a spectrometer from foam board using two razor blades as the silt cover and a writable CD as the diffraction grating. The coolest part is removing the metal backing of the CD.
Hackaday reader [gratian] tipped us off about the course available from MIT courseware called Nanomaker. It boils down some fairly complicated experiments to the kind one can do in the home lab without involving thousands …read more
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Rita’s Dolls Probably Live Better Than You Do
If it wasn’t for the weird Dutch-Norwegian techno you’d presumably have to listen to forever, [Gianni B.]’s doll house for his daughter, [Rita] makes living in a Barbie World seem like a worthwhile endeavor. True to modern form, it’s got LED lighting. It’s got IoT. It’s got an app and an elevator. It even has a tiny, working, miniature television.
It all started with a Christmas wish. [Rita] could no longer stand to bear the thought of her Barbie dolls living a homeless lifestyle on her floor, begging passing toys for enough monopoly money to buy a sock to sleep …read more
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Human Cells’ DNA can Store Complex Data- MIT Bio-Engineers
ShortRead: Researchers have developed a new method to record ‘analog
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4D Printed Objects Remember Their Shapes
This novel approach to 3D printing could lead to fever-activated pills and heliotrope solar panels. Continue reading 4D Printed Objects Remember Their Shapes
Interactive Dynamic Video
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth millions. However, computers still aren’t very good at analyzing video. Machine vision software like OpenCV can do certain tasks like facial recognition quite well. But current software isn’t good at determining the physical nature of the objects being filmed. [Abe Davis, Justin G. Chen, and Fredo Durand] are members of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. They’re working toward a method of determining the structure of an object based upon the object’s motion in a video.
The technique relies on vibrations which can be captured …read more
A Cellphone That Can Self-assemble Itself
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Incredible Achievement — MIT Researchers Reveal how Easily a Cellphone
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Skin Bling: Wearable Electronics from Golden Temporary Tattoos
MIT Media Lab and Microsoft have teamed up to take wearable devices one step further — they’ve glued the devices directly to the user’s skin. DuoSkin is a temporary tattoo created with gold leaf. Metallic “Flash” temporary fashion tattoos have become quite popular recently, so this builds on the trend. What the team has done is to use them to create user interfaces for wearable electronic devices.
Generally speaking, gold leaf is incredibly fragile. In this process to yield the cleanest looking leaf the gold is not actually cut. Instead, the temporary tattoo film and backer are cut on a …read more
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Researchers Made the First Quantum Enigma Machine
A quantum enigma machine is theoretical device that is able to use photons to encrypt messages using keys that are shorter than the message itself—and now it’s real. Continue reading Researchers Made the First Quantum Enigma Machine
This ‘Pokémon Go’ Hack Lets Pokémon Interact with the Real World
Interactive Dynamic Video captures object vibrations so pokémon can move real objects. Continue reading This ‘Pokémon Go’ Hack Lets Pokémon Interact with the Real World