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Watch the on-demand video of the Roundtables session, What’s Next for Mixed Reality: Glasses, Goggles, and More. Available only to MIT Alumni and subscribers. Featured speakers are Mat Honan, Editor in Chief, and James O'Donnell, AI hardware reporter.
The complexity of biology has long been a double-edged sword for scientific and medical progress. On one hand, the intricacy of systems (like the human immune response) offers countless opportunities for breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare. On the other hand, that very complexity has often stymied researchers, leaving some of the most significant medical challenges—like…
Rather than analyzing the news this week, I thought I’d lift the hood a bit on how we make it. I’ve spent most of this year being pretty convinced that Donald Trump would be the 47th president of the United States. Even so, like most people, I was completely surprised by the scope of his…
The world’s first barcode, designed in 1948, took more than 25 years to make it out of the lab and onto a retail package. Since then, the barcode has done much more than make grocery checkouts faster—it has remade our understanding of how physical objects can be identified and tracked, creating a new pace and…