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Creator: Valentin Heun (Fluid Interfaces).</p> <p><a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/product/reform">reForm</a> (experimental category). Team: Jifei Ou, Daniel Tauber, Lining Yao, and Hiroshi Ishii (Tangible Media).</p> <p><a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/product/psychicvr">PsychicVR</a> (student category). Team: Judith Amores and Xavier Benavides (Fluid Interfaces) and Dan Novy (Object-Based Media).</p> <p><b>Honorable Mention</b><br /> <a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/product/lineform">LineFORM</a> (student category). Team: Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii, and Ken Nakagaki (Tangible Media).</p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-about-the-image"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image2"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/files/imagecache/article_inset/biologicFCweb.jpg" alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-article_inset imagecache-default imagecache-article_inset_default" width="400" height="225" /> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-resgroup"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Research Group/Program: </div> <a href="research/groups/fluid-interfaces.html">Fluid Interfaces</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> Research Group/Program: </div> <a href="research/groups/object-based-media.html">Object-Based Media</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline"> Research Group/Program: </div> <a href="research/groups/tangible-media.html">Tangible Media</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://www.fastcodesign.com/innovation-by-design/2016" target="_blank">view site</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="node-type-research-feature" id="node-11123"> <h2 class="title">Cilllia: 3D-Printing Pipeline for Programmable Hair </h2> <div class="content"> <p>Cilia–the microscopic basic hair-like structure that covers all mammalian cells–has numerous functions. As a natural interface between a living organism and its environment, hair provides warmth and adhesion; it senses vibration and touch, and it’s responsive in terms of navigation and movement. Plus, hair has aesthetic properties.</p> <p>Now, inspired by Nature, Cilllia is a new computational method for designing and 3D-printing artificial cilia by using a streamlined technology that bypasses existing CAD model techniques, which are time-consuming and unwieldy. The new technology can be customized: It allows a user to digitally design and fabricate ultra-fine hair geometries, and assign various functionalities to the “hair.” The fabrication process includes a software platform that lets users quickly define the hair angle, thickness, density, and height. And, by directly generating bitmaps, Cilllia enables 3D printing of the hair-like structures on both flat and curved surfaces. </p> <p>Cilllia–which is an ideographic spelled with three “Ls” to visually represent hair–could transform interaction design. The ability to fabricate customized hair-like structures not only expands the library of 3D-printable shapes, but it also enables us to design and quickly prototype passive actuators and swipe sensors for use in everyday interactive objects. A 3D-printed object can translate vibration into a controlled motion based on the hair geometry, and printed objects can now sense human touch direction and velocity.</p> <p>This new technology is more than biomimicry: it holds potential for application in many industries, such as technology, health care, fashion, and art. </p> <p>Learn more: View the <a href=" http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/cilllia/" target="new">site</a>, read the <a href="http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Papers/607-Cilllia%20%203D%20Printed%20Micro/Published/PDF" target="new">research paper</a> and watch the <a href="https://vimeo.com/166604922" target=new">video</a>.</p> <h3>Excerpts from an interview recorded in the Tangible Media group with the group’s director Hiroshi Ishii and Jifei Ou, lead researcher on the Cilllia project.</h3> <p><b>Listen</b>: <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/files/cilllia-jifei-062016.mp3" target="new">Jifei Ou, PhD student in the TMG and lead researcher on the Cilllia project, explains what inspired him</a><br /> [Transcription] “Hair is one of the most common structures we encounter every day. It actually provides a lot of different functionality, mechanical functionality, optical functionality. And that’s one of the most interesting things I found attractive. On the other side, if we look into the fabrication world, the fabrication technology, we can see now – with the advance of the technology – we have more and more machines that can help us designers engineer to create things at smaller scale, yet we’re not fully utilizing that. That’s how I see the two – one is in the natural world, one is in the man-made world – can be merged together.”</p> <p><b>Listen</b>: <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/files/cilllia-ishii-062016.mp3" target="new">Hiroshi Ishii, Director of the Tangible Media Group (TMG), says the “meta message” of Cilllia is important</a><br /> [Transcription] “People know that hair protects the body. Also, Velcro is very popular so the adhesive is something that’s very easy to imagine. But he (Jifei Ou) made two jumps: one is for actuation, and even for sensing. That made people say, “Wow.” So, it’s not the biomimicry but he went beyond that. We can learn from Nature, of course, but also we can make a quantum leap beyond that. My group is really keen on three things: envision, embody, and inspire. The work has to be beautiful, the work has to have a profound message to make people think in a new, different kind of future.” </p> <h3>Media coverage</h3> <p><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/3-d-print-hair-0617" target="new">MIT News</a><br /> <a href="http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/3d-printing-hair-20062016/ " target="new">ZME Science</a><br /> <a href="http://www.cnet.com/au/news/3d-printing-produces-human-hair-like-bristles/ " target="new">CNET</a><br /> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3d-printed-hair-created-by-mit-scientists-breakthrough-wig-making-industry-1566500 " target="new">International Business Times UK </a><br /> <a href="https://boingboing.net/2016/06/17/mit-researchers-3d-print-synth.html " target="new">Boing Boing </a><br /> <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3059931/making-it/mit-is-building-touchable-interfaces-out-of-soft-synthetic-hair " target="new">Fast Co. Design </a><br /> <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2016/05/16/mit-researchers-create-3d-printed-hair/ " target="new">Dezeen Magazine</a><br /> <a href="http://futurism.com/mit-tech-make-it-possible-to-3d-print-ultra-fine-programmable-hair/ " target="new">Futurism </a><br /> <a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/163391-3d-printed-hair-is-here-but-its-potential-goes-way-beyond-what-you-think " target="new">Bustle </a><br /> <a href="https://3dprint.com/135288/mit-3d-printed-programmable-hair/ " target="new">3DPRINT.com </a></p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-about-the-image"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image2"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/files/imagecache/article_inset/cilllia-resized.png" alt="Cilllia" title="Cilllia" class="imagecache imagecache-article_inset imagecache-default imagecache-article_inset_default" width="450" height="280" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-credit"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Image Credit: </div> Tangible Media group </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-resgroup"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Research Group/Program: </div> <a href="research/groups/tangible-media.html">Tangible Media</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-project"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Project: </div> <a href="research/groups/1453/cilllia-3d-printed-micro-pillar-structures-surface-texture-actuation-and-sensing.html">Cilllia: 3D-Printed Micro Pillar Structures for Surface Texture, Actuation and Sensing</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <div class="node-type-research-feature" id="node-10868"> <h2 class="title">PubPub: A new platform for academic and scholarly publishing</h2> <div class="content"> <p>PubPub is a platform that enables the exploration of three core experiments: 1) author-driven publishing, 2) distributed and dynamic peer review, and 3) grassroots journals that serve as tools for curation. Through these three experiments, we seek to uncover new paths and opportunities for collaborative publishing.</p> <p>The platform, an open and free website, enables anyone to read, write, review, and publish. It provides incentives for <a href="http://companyontop.com/s?keys=data+sharing">data sharing</a>, inclusive peer reviews, and <a href="http://companyontop.com/s?keys=pre-experiment+proposals'>pre-experiment proposals</a>. Features such as rich media embeds, versioned histories, and immediate publishing allow authors to create a more complete picture of their work. The goal of PubPub is to create a space where communities can be increasingly productive and unbound by politics, technical interface limitations (e.g., data limits), and traditional review and reward practices.</p> <p>The PubPub platform is being used for the new collaborative <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-media-lab-and-mit-press-launch-journal-design-and-science" target="new">Journal of Design and Science</a>, a joint project of the MIT Media Lab and MIT Press. </p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-about-the-image"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image2"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/files/imagecache/article_inset/Screen Shot 2016-02-24 at 10.32.45 AM.png" alt="PubPub logo" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-article_inset imagecache-default imagecache-article_inset_default" width="150" height="89" /> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-person"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Person/Organization: </div> <a href="people/lip.html">Andrew Lippman</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-resgroup"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Research Group/Program: </div> <a href="research/groups/viral-communications.html">Viral Communications</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-related-project"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Project: </div> <a href="research/groups/1462/pubpub.html">PubPub</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="item-list"><ul class="pager"><li class="pager-current first">1</li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=1.html" title="Go to page 2" class="active">2</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=2.html" title="Go to page 3" class="active">3</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=3.html" title="Go to page 4" class="active">4</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=4.html" title="Go to page 5" class="active">5</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=5.html" title="Go to page 6" class="active">6</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=6.html" title="Go to page 7" class="active">7</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=7.html" title="Go to page 8" class="active">8</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a href="news%3Fpage=8.html" title="Go to page 9" class="active">9</a></li> <li class="pager-ellipsis">…</li> <li class="pager-next"><a href="news%3Fpage=1.html" title="Go to next page" class="active">next ›</a></li> <li class="pager-last last"><a href="news%3Fpage=15.html" title="Go to last page" class="active">last »</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </p>  </div> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  </div>  <div id="sidebar-right" class="column sidebar region grid-3 col-150"> <div id="sidebar-right-inner"> <div id="block-block-32" class="block block-block region-odd odd region-count-1 count-3"><div class="block-inner"> <h2 class="title">Contact</h2> <div class="content"> <p>For Press:<br /> Alexandra Kahn<br /> Senior Press Liaison<br /> 617.253.0365<br /> akahn at media.mit.edu</p> <p>For General Inquiries:<br /> MIT Media Lab<br /> E14-245, 75 Amherst Street<br /> Cambridge, MA 02139<br /> 617.253.5960</p> </div> </div></div>  </div> </div>  </div>  <div id="footer-bar"> <div id="id" style="margin-left: 490px; font-size: 11px;">  <a href="https://medium.com/@medialab/" target="new">MEDIA LAB BLOG</a> </div> </div> <div id="site-bottom"> <div class="footer-text"> <div id="footer-id"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY</a><br> <a href="http://sap.mit.edu/">SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING</a></div> <div id="footer-nav"> <a href="http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/contact">CONTACT US</a><br />  <a href="http://legacyweb.media.mit.edu/site-credits">SITE CREDITS</a><br /> </div> <div class="footer-social"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mitmedialab" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><img src="themes/newmlx/images/facebook_icon.png" /></a> </div> <div class="footer-social"> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/medialab" target="_blank" title="Twitter"><img src="themes/newmlx/images/twitter_icon.png" /></a> </div> <div class="footer-social"> <a href="news/rss-feeds.html"title="Feed"><img src="themes/newmlx/images/rss_icon.png" /></a> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  </body> </html>