tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219430180 2008-12-02 12:22:12 -0500 MIT Mobile Experience Lab The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia - Italy - is developing a sustainable ride-sharing system for youth that utilizes wearable media. <br><br> The system, with its main components of social networking, reputation management, referrals and geopositioning makes it possible to coordinate the matching of drivers and passengers with preferences entered online in user profiles. <br><br> The system can detect successful ride-shares and will reward participants accordingly, thereby providing an incentive to continue using the system. In addition to promoting social sustainability, the system also serves to prevent driving under the influence of alcohol. <br><br> The system is designed as open platform and promote social connection and trust, and wish to strenght the communication among communities and with institutions. <br><br> <a href="http://www.ridelink.ws">ridelink.ws</a><br> <a href="http://mobile.mit.edu">mobile.mit.edu</a><br> <br><br> Team<br> Federico Casalegno, Orkan Telhan, Guz Gutmann, Steve Pomeroy, Brian McMurray, Roberto Aimi, Sajid Sadi, David Boardman, Agnes Chang, Daniel Cardoso, Leonardo Benuzzi.<br><br> Photography &amp; Video editing<br> David Boardman <br><br> Soundtrack<br> "Demon Seed" by Nine Inch Nails (http://dl.nin.com/theslip/)<br> Released under CC, BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/)<br> 89 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219407840 2009-01-13 10:29:13 -0500 MIT Museum Visit the MIT Museum where historic robots, dazzling holograms and kinetic sculpture are showcased in an intimate museum setting. Meet the people behind the exhibits - curators and Museum Director John Durant. Learn about the new Innovation Gallery, the Cambridge Science Festival and all that draws people from around the world to this unique museum located on Massachusetts Avenue on the northern edge of the MIT campus. 512 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219385080 2009-11-10 11:09:58 -0500 Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) This learning video introduces high school students to a topic they would not ordinarily study in school, biotechnology, and to different applications of biotechnology that relate to the main theme of the module - making the desert greener. 1278