If you’ve been fishing, you know the layer of slime that covers the fish, protecting it from your nasty hand bacteria. It’s also a defense mechanism that helps protect the fish from predators and, as it turns out, is much more than what it seems. Particularly in the case of the Hagfish. Researches at MIT’s…

Nothing but good can come out of a project that includes a bunch of researchers in a small room and finger probes. Especially when they start toying with the visible aether and our ability to touch it. That’s exactly what a group from the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has done. They’ve…

Gather round the coffee table family. You’re about to see one of the most gut-grabbin’, practical applications of touchscreen tech yet. Your coffee table serves a lot of purposes, but Media Interaction Lab has one more to make your odd-looking neighbors peer in amazement, through the back window.. The premise is simple. Make the coffee…