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i0 kit is a simple framework to sketch distributed networks of devices and quickly prototype interactive systems. Based on internet 0, systems will easily be set up and configured through a tangible interface and a web application.

Tin Can connects remote meeting participants and gives everyone a better sense of what’s happening in the meeting beyond just who’s talking. The system collects and visualizes background tasks like taking notes, managing the agenda, sharing relevant content, tracking to-dos, and managing meeting process in a distributed interface.

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devices.

Future ENEL is a new multi-disciplinary initiative at MIT aimed at researching futuristic sensor technologies applied to the construction and operation life cycle management of energy plants that will contribute to shaping the vision of energy management in the 21st century.

If everyone says time is relative, why is it still so rigidly defined? The current model is inherently poor at accommodating life’s unpredictability. Kairoscope looks at time from a human perspective: allowing people to coordinate events socially and on the fly, without worrying about precision.

A landscape model made of clay provides the input/output for GIS simulations; Illuminating Clay uses a commercially available triangulation based laser scanner (MinoltaTM Vivid-900TM) to capture the surface geometry of the physical clay model. This laser scanner is calibrated with a video projector, in order to ensure that the spatial coordinates of the surface of the model correspond precisely to the projected image coordinates. /via transforms:ryvarga

SandScape is a tangible interface for designing and understanding landscapes through a variety of computational simulations using sand. Users view these simulations as they are projected on the surface of a sand model that represents the terrain.

Spinner is a novel sensor network system designed to detect and capture fragmented events of human behavior that can be collected and sequenced into a cohesive narrative that conveys a larger overall meaning.