If hardware is the new software, 3-D printers are a big reason. New research holds that even enterprise-class 3-D printers will be affordable enough to be widely deployed within a few years. Read more »
Web snooping busybodies may be a pain in the butt, but they serve a useful purpose, according to MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito. Read more »
A proposed MIT Media Lab project backed by Lab director Joi Ito would allow the lab’s corporate sponsors to fund work by promising graduates. Read more »
Build-your-own cell phones, a “finger-worn executive assistant,” immersive TV, 3-D printed houses: These are among the many cool technologies on display at MIT’s Media Lab. Read more »
What do Andy Bechtolsheim, Sky Dayton, Joi Ito, Brad Garlinghouse, and Jonathan Heiliger have in common? They’re are all backing Diffbot, the startup that’s building visual robot technology that parses web content to make it easier to repurpose and reuse in new apps. Read more »
Pivotal Labs, one of the smartest Web teams, known for its pioneering work in agile development, is in talks to be acquired, we have learned. The news will come sometime later this month. And we are still trying to pin down the buyer’s name. Read more »
Simon Willison is the ultimate nerd: He’s the face behind several important pieces of web technology and a developer who’s worked for some of the biggest names in the business. Now he and his wife are finding more success with events website Lanyrd. Read more »
MIT’s Media Lab is a hothouse of talent that helped usher in the digital revolution of the 1990s — but as the Internet has become dominated by large companies, its influence has waned. Now incoming director Joi Ito must help it regain its momentum. Read more »
When you run a news site and you get your hands on a video that you know is going to be huge — potentially-breaking-your-site huge — what do you do? In two recent cases, companies turned to new video platform providers that promised they could handle […] Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/v/S8YNkZ4pfYA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Tired of waiting for promised MIDs and disappointed that UMPCs are headed the way of the dodo? I suppose you could make do with lesser alternatives. That’s not your only option though. Case in point: this video from jkkmobile. The master of mods took the […] Read more »
