tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233032020 2007-04-27 17:18:56 -0400 MIT ZigZag A look at alternative fuels and energy sources to address global warming. 491 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/233011980 2008-01-03 17:04:06 -0500 MIT Video Productions Elizabeth Goldring is an artist, poet and Senior Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Her collaborative research at CAVS includes visualizing her own vision loss and developing both a visual language and "seeing machine" for people who are blind or visually challenged. This video was produced in collaboration with the MIT News Office in April 2006 as a video news release about Goldring's Seeing Machine Prototype.The video includes excerpts from an earlier documentary produced by Goldring and Ellen Sebring, as well as video art collaborations with Vin Grabill. 270 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232990740 2007-12-19 15:20:37 -0500 Doc Edgerton Films Watch this film from the MIT Science Reporter on Underwater Photography and the process developed and used by Doc Edgerton and the Woods Hole Institute to name a few. An overview is given through an interview with Doc Edgerton himself. 1744 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232967780 2009-10-26 13:21:32 -0400 MIT News Office <p>Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.</p> <p>Video: Melanie Gonick;<br> Still Images: Justin Lee/Oliver Yeh</p> 84 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232947200 2007-12-05 10:01:17 -0500 MITTechTV <p>What would you do with a gel that dramatically changes color in response to heat, water and salt? As this ScienCentral News video explains, the uses could range from color-changing clothes to monitoring food safety.<strong> - </strong>MIT engineer <a href="http://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/faculty/elt/" target="_blank">Ned Thomas</a> has some fashionable ideas for his new high-tech gel - More at <a href="http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218393028)" target="_blank">ScienCentral</a>. *Copyright ScienCentral, Inc (<a href="http://www.sciencentral.com">www.sciencentral.com</a>)*</p> 90 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232927240 2009-05-21 15:15:05 -0400 schmiedl MIT facilities workers and hack removal specialists remove the largest and most difficult part of the Apollo 11 lunar lander hack from the Great Dome: the welded steel base, too large to fit through any door. 119 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232907620 2009-10-28 16:20:35 -0400 Center for Future Civic Media <p>Rick Borovoy, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Future Civic Media, proudly unveils the first Lost in Boston sign.</p> <p><href="http://lostinboston.org">LostInBoston.org</a> is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects.</p> <p>It's about helping Bostonians work together to make their neighborhoods more visitor-friendly. Community groups are partnering with local businesses and institutions to design signs that call out the key spots in their area. Signs are placed on private land. LostInBoston.org is a collaboration between the Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. To get involved, contact info[at]lostinboston.org.</p> 559 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232887920 2009-11-17 15:18:48 -0500 Communications Forum: What's New at the Center for Future Civic Media <p>The Open Park project looks to define an 'ideal' or at least improved model and practice for online collaborative news-reporting and -writing.</p> <p>As newsrooms across the country and beyond are grappling with the new economic realities of reduced budgets and news media professionals are busy drafting and testing plans for new models of news production and distribution, the little-explored practice of 'Don't compete, collaborate!' is well worth considering.</p> <p>Collaboration and the sharing of skills and resources have already proved in other professional spheres that it is a winning formula--one especially well adapted to these economically demanding times. It is thus only logical to explore what this new practice could do for the future of journalism.</p> 230 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/232864320 2009-11-18 09:17:30 -0500 Communications Forum: What's New at the Center for Future Civic Media Placeblogger is a site where you can search for local sources of news, information, and community near where you live, work and travel. In this video, founder Lisa Williams describes Placeblogger's use and potential. 259