In today’s digital world, mobile applications have become the glue that connects people with both information and just about every kind of service. In many ways, they are at the core of business ...

A few years ago Google launched a project called App Inventor that makes it possible for anyone to build simple Android apps without learning how to write in programming language. But while the ...

One of the things that we’re working on right now at MIT is a tool that will help all kinds of people to create more applications based on the new technology that we have. There’s so much coming out ...

MIT professor Hal Abelson, currently on sabbatical in order to work on the App Inventor project, cites one student-created app that simply delivers a text auto-response when the user is behind the ...

You’ve likely heard of the “vomit comet” — an rather graphic nickname for the aircraft used to provide short bursts of near-weightlessness by flying along a parabolic trajectory. They’re used to train ...

This is a simple project. It uses an Android device to switch an LED driven by the Arduino. Connectivity is provided by the Bluetooth module inserted in the breadboard. But one look at the UI on the ...