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DefeXtiles: 3D Printing Quasi-Textiles (ARS 2020)

Renee Magritte's “Treachery of Images” highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a pai...
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DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
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SpaceSkin: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing on protective fabrics in Low Earth Orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space....
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
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ABM Resilient Cities

From conventional district to autonomous cities
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Open Drawing Machine

Open Drawing Machine is a low-cost open source drawing machine for controlling drawing instruments with motors and code, and it is orient...
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Hybrid Sculptures
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Pool Detective

Ever since the introduction of the first mining pool for Bitcoin in November 2010, mining pools have been used by miners to reduce the va...
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PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...
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Viral Vote

Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addr...
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Vote Purple '20

With Vote Purple '20, we are continuing our work of presenting a cognitive middle ground in media consumption - with a targeted focus on ...
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Fascia: Biosensing sleep mask for research in wild

[Fascia is currently under development]Fascia is a smart sleep mask aimed at facilitating sleep studies in natural settings. The mask rec...
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AttentivU

AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of glasses,  which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
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Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
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HERMITS: ‘Mechanical Shells’ for Robotic Tangible UIs

By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly...
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At t...
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Theme | Civic Understanding and Participation

A functioning society is predicated on an informed and active populace. Our work on broadcast news media analyzes how its unspoken cues i...
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Theme | Telecreativity

The problem we address is how we can go beyond remote productivity and enable the social and serendipitous interactions that might spur r...
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Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehi...
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Since the Bank of England first raised the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in its 2015 research agenda, the subject has...
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Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk ...
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Space Sustainability Rating

The global space community is witnessing a rapid increase in creative business models and new technologies that are leading to plans t...
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Daily Sketches: Nina Lutz

Nina does daily sketches at her Twitter @ninalikespi
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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to ba...
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PAB-QAM: Higher-Order Modulation for Underwater Backscatter

PAB-QAM  is a new system that achieves higher-order modulation with the current PAB sensor design. PAB relies on the piezoelectric e...
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB rel...
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Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

We are engineering a better healthcare system for people with diabetes and limb loss such that we can physically bridge gaps to...
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Are you still here?

An open source digital instrument to check if institutions still exist, and alert when they don't exist anymore.The instrument periodical...
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HelioZZZ: a smart (material) sleep mask

HelioZZZ is an opacity changing eye mask that wakes you up with natural sunlight when you want it. The mask warms your eyes to help you f...
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...
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The Green Book Project

The Green Book Project is a work-in-progress series of publications and interactive installations that reimagine the Negro Motorist Green...