HEXA is a six-legged robot designed to help plants grow.

AlterEgo: Surf the Web with Your Mind

MIT student Arnav Kapur designed a gadget called AlterEgo that lets you Google things with your mind. The gadget is a wearable device with a silent system that can interface with other devices and people.

The system detects neuromuscular signals from the brain’s thought process, Google-searches the thoughts, and transmits the answers through bone vibrations in the jaw and face and into the inner ear. You could be “reading” this article with AlterEgo; how cool is that?

AlterEgo, with which you can Google anything with your mind.

SoFi the Robofish

SoFi is the first robotic fish of its kind that can swim alongside fish and other animals to observe marine life—50 feet deep for up to 40 minutes—without ever disturbing real fish or even being noticed as an outsider.

SoFi can take high-resolution photos, and is controlled by a waterproof Super Nintendo controller. However, its makers—researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory—will probably upgrade this secret-agent bot so it can swim on its own, going places humans haven’t been before.

SoFi swims alongside fish and other animals to help observe marine life.

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