LabCAST HD
By MIT Media Lab
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Podcast Description
At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future. LabCAST is the video podcast of the MIT Media Lab. Learn about the Lab's cutting edge research and catch a glimpse of the lab in action.
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| 1 | Video#62 Mood Meter | Mood Meter is an interactive installation that encourages, recognizes, and monitors the smiles of a community, providing an indicator of emotional responses to certain events. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Video#61 ZeroN | What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video#60 CORNAR | Out of (Line of) Sight, But Not Out of View. The Camera Culture group at the Media Lab has created CORNAR: Looking around Corners with Femtophotography. With CORNAR, femtosecond imaging technology provides a way to see things beyond the line of sight–al | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video#59 NewsFlash | NewsFlash uses a unique screen-to-phone data exchange to provide an interactive way to experience current events through dynamic interaction with the front pages of a variety of newspapers. The interaction is local to the phone, supporting many simultaneo | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video#58 Mediated Matter | Mediated Matter research integrates computational form-finding strategies with biologically inspired fabrication in order to enhance the relation between natural and man-made environments. The group seeks to establish new forms of design, and novel proces | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video#57 Boxie | Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within it. | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video#56 LightBridge | LightBridge is a 10,000 pixel dynamic display created for the FAST Festival of Art, Science and Technology in celebration of MIT’s 150th anniversary. Sensors in the display respond to the movement of pedestrians on the bridge and ambient data such a | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video#55 CATRA | Part of a suite of portable projects for eyecare, CATRA is a new way to detect and quantify cataracts. CATRA is a compact eyepiece attached to a cell phone; it has no moving parts and is built from off-the-shelf components, making it well suited for the d | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video#54 FAST | A chain reaction between the arts and the sciences, MIT’s Festival of Art, Science and Technology was a year-long celebration of creativity at MIT, featuring many demos and projects from the Media Lab. More information about FAST is available. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video#53 Qooqle | Qooqle is a mobile system that frees us from the confines of search boxes by integrating digital information directly into our everyday activities. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video#52 Junkyard Jumbotron | The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random laptops, cellphones and tablets and stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video#51 Why apply? | There’s no such thing as a “typical” Media Lab student. Current Media Arts and Sciences graduate students discuss their research, what it’s like to work at the Media Lab, and why you should apply. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video#50 Death and the Powers Premiere | Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers. | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video#49 Death and the Powers | Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tour internationally. | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Video#48 NETRA | MIT Media Lab researchers have created a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to use mobile phones to measure refractive errors of the eye, including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and age-related vision loss. Until now, these measurements ha | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Video#47 LuminAR | LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devices. | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | Video#46 iCalm | iCalm is a small, wearable, wireless sensor platform for long-term sensing of physiological information along with low-cost connectivity to consumer devices. It has many possible applications, including customer-experience data gathering, health monitorin | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | Video#45 FaceSense | People express and communicate their mental states—such as emotions, thoughts, and desires—through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestures, and other non-verbal channels. FaceSense is a tool for analyzing, tagging, and making inferences about cogn | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | Video#44 Comm.unity | The Comm.unity platform enables mobile devices to discover and communicate with each other in close proximity. It also transforms these devices into social sensors, and allows programmers to rapidly develop locally and socially aware applications. Several | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | Video#43 New Media Medicine | The New Media Medicine research group believes that it’s time for a power shift in health care. As a society, we have dramatically underestimated the power of ordinary people to transform the system, to take care of their own health, to help develop | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | Video#42 Chameleon Guitar | The Chameleon Guitar, developed at the MIT Media Lab, embodies a unique combination of traditional acoustic values and digital capabilities. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | Video#41 Catalytic Cracking | Associate Media Lab Director Andy Lippman challenges us to recognize common flaws plaguing all our institutions as a first step toward meaningful redesign. | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | Video#40 Future of News | In June of 2009, the Center for Future Civic Media’s “Future of News and Civic Media” conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and inform | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | Video#39 Bokode | The Camera Culture group presents Bokodes, tiny imperceptible barcodes that can be read by a standard camera positioned up to four meters away to decode identity, and six-degree-of-freedom pose (angle and distance). | 7/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | Video#38 Robots to the Rescue | The Personal Robots group presents a scenario demonstrating mixed-initiative human-robot teaming for disaster response. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | Video#37 Roadie | Consumer electronics are becoming more complicated and intimidating. Roadie is a system that uses common-sense reasoning to discern the users’ intentions, and uses this knowledge to help users reach their goals. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | Video#36 extrACT | extrACT is a group of software tools being developed for use by communities affected by extractive industries. | 2/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | Video#35 Graspables | The graspables system is a prototype handheld device that recognizes how it is being held and adjusts its functionality accordingly. | 2/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | Video#34 Synthetic Neurobiology | Professor Ed Boyden introduces the Media Lab’s Synthetic Neurobiology group, which is inventing and applying tools for the analysis and engineering of brain circuits. | 1/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | Video#33 Scratch@MIT | The first conference focused on the ideas, applications, and joys of Scratch. | 12/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | Video#32 Selectricity | Selectricity is voting machinery for the masses. See how electronic voting technology can help groups make better decisions, more easily. | 11/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | Video#31 The Psychology of the Guitar | What do you get when you cross a guitar and a Wii controller? A way to extend the guitar intuitively by mapping audio effects onto gestures. | 10/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | Video#30 Urban Pixels | Setting pixels free, and blurring the boundary between street lighting and digital displays. | 9/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | Video#29 UROP@ML | Robotics, documentary film, algorithms, and circuit boards: just a few of the many projects with undergraduate researchers at the Media Lab. | 8/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | Video#28 Physical Heart, Virtual Body | Physical Heart, Virtual Body is a special guitar that combines physical acoustic properties with virtual sound processing capabilities. | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | Video#27 Civic Media | The Center for Future Civic Media is a joint effort between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. It is working to create technical and social systems for sharing, prioritizing, organizing, and acting on information. | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | Video#26 Storied Navigation | Storied Navigation is a novel approach to constructing a story based on a collection of digital video and audio. Media sequences are tagged with free-text annotations and stored as a collection. The system can then suggest media based on the context of th | 6/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | Video#25 RoboScooter | The RoboScooter is a lightweight, folding, electric motor scooter. It is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive mobility in urban areas. | 5/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | Video#24 Design and the Elastic Mind | Design and the Elastic Mind was an exhibit at New York City’s MoMA with works by MIT Media Lab researchers. Thanks to the MoMA. | 5/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | Video#23 Nexi MDS Robot | Nexi is an MDS (Mobile Dexterous Social) Robot designed and built in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group, UMASS Amherst’s Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, Xitome Design, and Meka Robotics. | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | Video#22 The Media Lab | Welcome to a place where the future is lived not imagined. | 4/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | Video#21 Stiff People’s League | Stiff People’s League is a mixed-reality table soccer game in which teams of virtual and real players compete together. It debuted at Ars Electronica 2007. | 3/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | Video#20 Siftables | Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. | 3/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | Video#19 The Online Magician | A new technological magic show by Media Lab Alum Seth Raphael. | 3/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | Video#18 Software Agents | The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rather than simply as a tool. | 2/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | Video#17 Death and the Powers | Death and the Powers will showcase groundbreaking advances in musical language and materials, scenographic technique, and performance technology | 2/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | Video#16 Seamless | Seamless: Computational Couture 2008 is a fashion event featuring innovative and experimental works in computational apparel design, interactive clothing, and technology-based fashion. This year’s show was produced by Media Lab student Amanda Parkes, Me | 2/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | Video#15 Student Life with Taemie Kim | Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses student life with student Taemie Kim. | 12/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | Video#14 Student Life with David Merrill | Journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry discusses the resources available at the Lab with student David Merrill. | 11/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | Video#13 Autom Sociable Robot | Autom is an interactive, sociable robot designed to be used on a daily basis for several months. We are currently running a study with fifteen of these robots in local homes so that we can gather information on how people use the system, what they think | 10/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | Video#12 Sponsor Week Fall 2007 | Sponsor week is a major twice a year event where the Media Lab sponsors have the chance to visit the lab and learn about the latest research. Catch a glimpse of the Media Lab in action. | 10/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | Video#11 AUR: a Robotic Desk Lamp | AUR is a robotic desk lamp, a collaborative lighting assistant. It serves as a non-anthropomorphic robotic platform as part of research on human-robot fluency, embodiment, and nonverbal behavior. | 9/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | Video#10 Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis | Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel prosthesis is capable of propelling the wearer forward and varying its stiffness over irregular terrain, successfully m | 7/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | Video#9 h2.0 Highlights | On May 9, more than 900 attendees from throughout the world joined members of the Media Lab and special guests for h2.0, a symposium focused on ushering in a new era in human adaptability—an era where technology will merge with our bodies and our minds | 6/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | Video#8 City Car | The City Car is a stackable electric two-passenger city vehicle. The one-way sharable user model is designed to be used in dense urban areas. Vehicle Stacks will be placed throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage | 6/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | Video#7 John Maeda h2.0 Drawings | A short video composed of drawings by John Maeda for the opening of the h20 event. | 5/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | Video#6 Scratch | Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art—and share your creations on the web. | 5/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | Video#5 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 4 | John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade. | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | Video#4 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 3 | John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade. | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | Video#3 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 2 | John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade. | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | Video#2 Hockenberry 2.0 Act 1 | John Hockenberry visits the Media Lab looking for an upgrade. | 5/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | Video#1 Welcome to LabCAST | Welcome to the Media Lab podcast with journalist and Media Lab Senior Fellow John Hockenberry. | 5/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 62 Episodes |
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LabCAST
This is my second favorite podcast. Second to the NASA JPL HD podcast. It keeps you informed about the current status of MIT. It is amazing what they do there at MIT!!!!! At MIT, the future is lived, not imagined.
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