Tag: MIT MEDIA LAB

Share It's gotten a little too easy to overspend during the holidays. The sales start earlier and end later, there are deals everywhere you look, and it can be hard avoiding the temptation to treat yourself. The good people at MIT Media Labs have you covered, though, with a new series of wallets designed to help you keep your spending in line. Each of the Lab's three designs -- the Bumblebee, ...

A team of MIT Media Lab researchers has created a simple and cheap device that performs on-the-spot eye exams. The Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment (NETRA) is a small plastic device that attaches to a cell phone screen. Users peer into it, and press buttons on the phone until a set of green lines overlaps with a set of red lines on the screen. In less than two minutes, the software ...

As the global economy strengthens its grip, consumers (and even some manufacturers) are led further and further away from the origins of the products they consume. And, of course, the greater distance a product travels to get to us means a larger carbon footprint, further damaging the environment. At the Greener Gadgets conference last week, design competition prize winner John Healy and guest ...