The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently hosted its annual Assistive Technology Hackathon (ATHack), an event that brings together people with disabilities and students from the graduate to ...

MIT is putting its considerable might behind a problem that many mothers would agree needs solving: the breast pump. Yes, the university is holding a particularly focused hackathon aimed at making the ...

“If the baby sucks very hard with the very front of its mouth right at the point of the nipple, it can cause cracking and bleeding.” I’d only been at MIT’s “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck!” Hackathon ...

Virtual reality and augmented reality technology not only aid in people’s day-to-day routines, but they also infiltrate human vision, immersing mankind into a new technological reality that seemed ...

Licia Ronzulli, a member of the European Parliament, brings her baby to work. On September 20 and 21, MIT will attempt to solve one of biggest issues for working mothers — the breast pump. MIT is ...

(NEWSER) – It might not be the first thing that comes to mind after the word "hackathon," but organizers of an upcoming one at MIT say the world is long overdue for a better breast pump. Engineers, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held its first Clean Earth Hackathon over the Earth Day weekend. More than 70 students and professionals from MIT and other organizations came together to ...

Two Rochester Institute of Technology students took home top prizes in a hackathon where computing skills can be used to help solve some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Archit Jha and Rohan Patel, ...

Robots have become smarter and more useful over the last year alone, and Segway Robotics is turning to developers for ideas on more meaningful applications for its Loomo bot. For three days starting ...

3R, a post-stroke recovery and rehabilitation platform, has won the inaugural Irish MIT health hackathon, picking up the grand prize of €3,000 to put towards its research. The MIT health hackathon – ...