Discussions
Protecting the Heart
Surgical resident and bioengineer Bilal Shafi talks about heart failure and demonstrates how his new technology prevents it.
Making Graphene
Kostya Novoselov, a fellow at the University of Manchester, demonstrates his low-tech technique for making graphene in the lab.
Shared Searching
This brief demo highlights the features of SearchTogether that allow groups of people to more effectively share the work and the results of online information hunts.
Projector Tracking
In work that built on his doctoral dissertation, Johnny Lee, along with colleagues at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, prototyped a projector system that could keep an image framed on a moving handheld screen.
Wii-mote for Whiteboards
Johnny Lee demonstrates how to build a low-cost digital whiteboard using the Nintendo Wii remote and an infrared-light emitter.
Simple Stem Cells
Konrad Hochedlinger describes the benefits of induced pluripotent stem cells and explains how he has improved their production.
Improving Imaging
Nicholas Fang explains how superlenses can enable scientists to use standard microscopes to view individual molecules inside living cells.
jack: presenting Twitter
CEO Jack Dorsey recounts the origins of his obsession with status updates and how it led to the birth of Twitter—and to original uses for microblogging.
Faster Flow
A comparison of the performance of an animated simulation of fluid flow on different processors highlights how much faster RapidMind can make programs run on both multicore processors and specialized processors, such as graphics chips.
People-aware computing
Tanzeem Choudhury demonstrates her wearable sensor platform and describes how software can analyze the data to provide valuable information about users’ activity patterns, social networks, and even health.