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iPhone app controls drone aircraft 3,000 miles away

by Steven Sande (Sep 27th, 2011)

At the present time, flying unmanned drone aircraft requires a skilled operator and a lot of equipment. Engineers at the Boeing Company and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to change all of that and make it possible for regular people to control aircraft from a ...

iPhone camera being used for traffic light testing

by Mike Schramm (Aug 26th, 2011)

A group of researchers at MIT and Princeton University are testing to figure out how to best save fuel when stopping and re-starting cars at traffic lights, and they're using the iPhone to do so. The smartphone is mounted on the car's dashboard, and uses the camera and GPS information in a ...

Use your iPhone to detect cataracts

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

A group of researchers at MIT have built a surprisingly useful medical addon for the iPhone that apparently can help detect cataracts. The CATRA system is a device that snaps on to the front of the iPhone (or any computer screen, from the look of it), and then uses screen output to monitor and ...

Future phones may send data and apps via photography

by Steven Sande (Jun 20th, 2011)

You know the drill: you want to send a Google map from your iMac to your iPhone, so you email a link to the page to your iPhone, open Mail on the phone, and then tap on the link on the email message to open Apple's Maps app. If MIT and some Google researchers have their way, you'll soon be able ...

Sikuli can automate any UI by taking screenshots

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2010)

This is pretty impressive --of course there are already lots of ways to automate actions on your Mac, and odds are that you may have messed around with scripting or Automator more than once before. But Sikuli is a new app that makes automating as simple as taking screenshots. Instead of programming ...

Found Footage: Control an unmanned aerial vehicle with an iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Aug 10th, 2009)

What does a former US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot do with her time now that she heads MIT's Humans and Automation Lab? The short answer is "really cool stuff," and the long answer is even better. During her tenure as a pilot, Professor Cummings became frustrated with the Hornet's cockpit. "I ...

MIT uses Macs to learn how children gain speech skills

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2008)

Apple's Science page has a profile up for the folks over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- apparently two MITers, Deb Roy and Rupal Patel, are using Macs, including "five Apple Xserves and a 4.4TB Xserve RAID," to record and track every single moment of their son's early childhood. ...

Seamless Fashion Show 2006 features iPod-ready couture

by Fabienne Serriere (Feb 5th, 2006)

Seamless V2, the second annual technology fashion event in Boston, included iPod fashion in its wild mix of wearables. Pictured above is iDo, a wedding dress concept by Shannon Okey and Alexandra Underhill. The veil included an iPod (update number two: yes, a shuffle, and the bodice a full-sized ...

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