Spin-offs
Media Lab industry spin-offs include:
- E Ink, which makes electronic paper displays that power the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook.
- Harmonix, game company creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
- One Laptop per Child's XO laptop
- Oblong industries, creators of the digital screen used by Tom Cruise in Minority Report
- Sifteo, a company that has developed a tabletop gaming platform that grew out of Siftables.
- First Mile Solutions, which brings communications infrastructure to rural communities
- Ambient Devices, which produces glanceable information displays
- nTag Interactive, which makes interactive name tags
- Mobule, an application for mobile phones that can instigate interactions between people.
- Squid Labs, engineering consulting company
- Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking, Inc. (acquired in 2006), which developed the first hybrid search engine
- Nanda, a company that markets the Clocky alarm clock
- reQall, a memory aid company.
- Dimagi, a company that develops software for healthcare in the developing world.
- Potion Design, an interactive design firm
- Elance
- Sugar Labs, designer of the One Laptop per Child's XO's Sugar graphical user interface
- The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform
- The SPINNER project from the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Lab is the first research platform designed to investigate the world of ubiquitous video devices. The Spinner can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure. It uses video from cameras installed at the Media Lab and sensor data from people generated by wearable smart badges to track their activity and location. The system then creates a video using the characteristics detected from the sensor data with the video captured by the cameras.
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