Vijee Venkatraman
Live Video makes Google Earth Cities Bustle
Virtual globes such as Google Earth or Microsoft Visual Earth provide great bird's-eye views of urban landscapes. But those streets are empty, transforming the world's cities into ghost towns. Now a system that can draw on real-time video from traffic and surveillance cameras, or weather...
Read MoreMeeting Nexi
Nexi, the robot, features in articles on MIT Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling. I am not entirely sure why this should be the case. Anyway, I decided to go meet this robot in Cynthea Brazeal's Personal Robotics Lab . Currently, the humans in the group are training their...
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It is a Landfill and an Ecopark
June 2009, Singapore City A typical landfill isn’t the sort of place where residents have peaceful picnics and take nature walks or go to stargaze. But Singapore’s Semakau landfill is far from ordinary. Pulau Semakau – where Singapore’s only landfill is located – is a...
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A tranquil space for lunch or tea
On that busy stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central squares, a sidewalk vent lets out a sudden gust from below. The Red Line rumbles underfoot. A few doors away, inside the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center, everything is peaceful and quiet. A large...
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Truck Mixes Tradition With Innovation
The exterior of the truck looks like a dry-erase board. On the white surface, Ayr Muir, the 31-year-old proprietor of Clover Food Lab and an MIT alum, writes out the day's menu as soon as he gets the ovens going every morning. The truck's handwritten...
Read MoreWaterless urinals: Cheap. Green. But many think ‘gross’
Sanitary fixtures in men’s rooms don’t make for polite conversation. Nor would many people want to read about them over a morning cup of coffee. But it’s Jan Aceti’s job to encourage people to think about them. As principal of consulting firm Aceti Associates, Ms....
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