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  NailO: A thumbnail-mounted wireless trackpad - Duration: 2 minutes, 9 seconds.

  • 5 days ago
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  Researchers at the MIT Media Lab are developing a new, wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature, wireless track pad. NailO was inspired by the colorful stickers that people ...

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  Detecting rare cancer cells with sound waves - Duration: 101 seconds.

  • 2 weeks ago
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  A team of engineers from MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University is developing a novel way to isolate rare circulating tumor cells using sound waves to separate them from blood c...
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  Parkinson's diagnosis by typing on a keyboard - Duration: 2 minutes, 20 seconds.

  • 2 weeks ago
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  In a new study from MIT, researchers show how analyzing people's keystrokes as they type can reveal a great deal of information about the state of their motor function. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/1...

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  Wireless brain stimulation - Duration: 41 seconds.

  • 1 month ago
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  Calcium-dependent fluorescence recording of neurons that have not (left) or have been (right) heat-sensitized with the capsaicin receptor TRPV1. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/19eVoPY)
  
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  Mega Menger: Building a Menger Sponge at MIT - Duration: 5 minutes, 22 seconds.

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  MIT's origami club, OrigaMIT, led the effort to build a Level 3 Menger Sponge out of folded business cards. This was part of a larger, global project sponsored by Queen Mary University of London.
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  Marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays - Duration: 2 minutes, 12 seconds.

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  Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have identified two optical structures within the blue-rayed limpet's shell that give its blue-striped appearance. Such natural optical structures may serve...

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