Watch Carlo Ratti release "a flying pixel" into the room.
Video by ted: "With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors."
SENSEable City Lab is part of mitsap, MIT School of Architecture + Planning.
---------------------------------------------- MIT Tumblr theme of the week: MIT professors being awesome. This means reciting medieval poetry, swinging across the classroom on a pendulum, etc. - all to infuse the passion of their subject into their students. If you feature an MIT professor being awesome on your Tumblr, use the hashtag #onlyatmit. Who knows, we might reblog you!
