Featured 2009-08-27.

"Are you an egosurfer, addicted to Googling your own name? If so, you should check out Personas, which uses data-mining techniques to answer the question: 'How does the internet see you?'"

Featured 2009-08-27.

"With nothing more than a first and last name, the Personas web application creates a picture of how the internet sees you. Eerie insights sometimes flash across the page, often followed by absurd non sequiturs. The website, created as part of an MIT art installation Metropath(ologies), is meant as a critique of data mining efforts by Google, Netflix, and the U.S. Government."

Featured 2009-03-07.

"MIT graduate student David Merrill was inspired by building blocks to design computerized blocks called Siftables..."

Featured 2009-02-11.

"Acoustic instruments with their wood-grain patterns produce unique sounds, but a prototype guitar built by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing..."

Featured 2009-02-10.

"Guitarists revel in the diverse acoustic resonances emanating from instruments made from different types of wood. As a result, most guitarists own a variety of guitars..."

Featured 2009-02-06.

"MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?"

Featured 2009-02-06.

"One of the most disruptive forces in music today are the digital processing and virtual instruments that let the same physical machine make a wide range of sounds..."

Featured 2009-02-04.

"Guitars with electronics built in are hardly new. Most people are familiar with standard electric guitars, but Takamine and other companies started putting in equalizers and other sound-shaping gear in the '80s and '90s. ..."

Featured 2008-02-18.

"We are used to sitting in front of a PC's screen while tapping away at a keyboard. But is this really the best way to communicate with a computer?"

Featured 2008-01-17.

"The Zoran guitar concept ... allows musicians to customize their sound using a CAD/CAM process... users have complete freedom of design. For example, each string can have its own bridge and each bridge can be linked to different cells."