All of the wondrous gadgets and gizmos that have built the modern technological world come with a major drawback—they eventually end up in the trash. E-waste has been a growing problem for years, and ...

How can electronic “skin” help advance the electronics and computer industry? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute ...

The benefits of the miniaturization of electronics and advancements in wireless communications have given us life-preserving and -saving technologies like pacemakers and defibrillators. Technology ...

Modular electronics face a problem in getting new and old components to communicate with each other in a fast and simple way. The MIT chip, however, uses flashes of light to convey information between ...

LAS VEGAS ” MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative focused on consumer electronics. An announcement about the initiative and cooperation between the MIT Lab and the Consumer Electronics ...

Cambridge, MA – Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT researchers have developed new metrics for assessing the performance of firms that recycle scrapped electronic equipment, a major source of toxic pollutants. The metrics focus ...