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News about MIT Media Lab

• New interfaces challenge touch

  Innovative interfaces offer flexibility in device interaction

• MIT robots take stage in new opera

  Operabots wheel around stage and are controlled via "disembodied performance"

• MIT app uses mobile phone to determine eyeglass prescription

  The new method is cheaper and more portable than traditional equipment

• Surround Vision hopes to change TV viewing experience

  Using a handheld device, viewers can explore content that isn't shown on the main screen

• MIT opens new Media Lab Complex, expands research space

  The new building's outside walls are almost all glass, making the building glow at night