Technology

Joseph Coughlin's AgeLab at MIT has managed to design something rare - empathy. That is the objective behind a suit named AGNES, an acronym for the Age Gain Now Empathy System which is designed to help young engineers wearing it understand the physical limitations of older people. Designed by excercise physiologist Rozanne Puleo and a team of mechanical engineers, the suit mimics:

*reduced hearing and vision

*limited joint mobility and extension of spine

*restricted mobility

*lowered tactile ability

*induced fatigue

Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare, and all those omega-3 fatty acids, we may have to rely on aquaculture. Schreibman is working to bring those fish farms straight to the demand cities.

Does your vote count and will it be so, correctly?  Scantegrity is a research and open source project, that has developed an election verification sytem that will allow voters to ensure their vote has been tallied while maintaining anonymity.  The technology works in conjunction with one of the most popular voting techniques in the US - optical scanning, in which voters fill in a bubble on a paper that is then scanned for a computer record, as well as leaving a smart paper trail.  The new Scantegrity's encryption technology uses new ballots with invisible ink that produce a unique confirmat

Meshed 360 degree photography that creates virtual tours has been popularized by Google's 'Street View'. This Cambridge startup picks up where the search engine left off  and extends the technology to views inside of buildings.  Local business owners can opt to have photos of the inside of their building available on the website.  Everyscape creates and hosts the content and allows users to learn about the business through a consistent immersive experience in a way that a TV or print ad cannot describe.