Oct 3, 2010

Or at least, using the internet to help reduce traffic jams. In metropolitan Boston, the MIT has been running a project, CarTel, which has been tracking the driving patterns of GPS-equipped taxis. In moving traffic, those vehicles all represent moving nodes on a network that happen to be drifting in and out of close contact with one another. The CarTel project...

Jun 27, 2010

The MIT has developed an attachment of mobile phones that allows them to perform eye tests. Costing just a couple of dollars to manufacture, this small device clips onto the phone, and then the patient interacts with the phone to get red and green lines to intersect. After just a couple of minutes, the device and software is able to diagnose vision problems, and...

Jan 5, 2009

This week on The Gadget Grill, we took a look at the world of OpenCourseWare. We figured that a great way to start the new year off might be with learning something, and what better way to learn something than with high-end resources provided by such great places like MIT! OpenCourseWare is an initiative that enables you to learn university courses without...